I love the smell of challah in the morning

The big one is on a talking rampage today.  Narrating.everything.loudly.  There was dancing too, and banging on a plastic baby toy.  She’s talking to fish in a toy aquarium now.
And we’ve only been up for about 40 minutes.
But I have challah for breakfast, so at least there’s that.
The little one is chanting “potato” which means [...]

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Call? Ball? Ba-ball? Meow.

This  morning my son woke himself up by clapping in his sleep.  Loudly.  He then sat straight up in bed and asked for the phone.  “Call? Call?”  As we began to get up, he leaned over to the nightstand and proclaimed, “Ball!”
This is how our days are going lately.  He has other words (in a [...]

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Suckage and Money

So I heard back from the garden center from whence the shamrocks came.  They told me to cut off any dead or damaged parts.  Needless to say, this has left me with several (7 so far out of 20) plants that are in really sorry shape.  Plus I am furious that the company hasn’t addressed [...]

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Oxalis Assistance!

So I ordered oxalis plants for Lucy’s classmates’ goody bags on St. Pat’s Day.  The place I got them from didn’t exactly pack them thoughtfully so a bunch look really grim.  Does anyone know how I can get them looking decent by Tuesday so I don’t have to either drop another chunk of $$ on [...]

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Wherein I realize the extent of my frustration with pessimism

One of my assignments for this week was to write a one-scene continuation of the Glass Menagerie.  It ended up with a happy ending.  I gave a happy ending to Tennessee Williams.  This is a clear indicator that I have reached pessimism overload.  It didn’t start out happy but that’s sure as hell where it [...]

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Nothing to See Here

See, once upon a time a family member said about me, “She’s often wrong but seldom thinks it.”  Or something to that effect.
This has stuck with me ever since I heard it, like a psychic bitch-slap.
And ever since, I have made every effort to ensure that I do not speak with any sort of authority [...]

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Oh for the love of mary

So, this morning we wake up at 6 with Lucy hacking up a lung.  A few weeks ago, the school sent home a letter saying that parents shouldn’t send kids in who are coughing excessively.  So we got the cough relatively under control and called the school to find out if we should keep her [...]

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