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Entries from February 2008

Sick-O’s and Sloppy Folks

February 29th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s amazing how easy it is to get off track. My youngest daughter has been sick this week and I don’t need to tell you moms how that sends the whole house into chaos. It started with a cold and a doctor’s visit and has progressed to strep throat. She’s only 17 months old, so […]

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Overheard in the Doctor’s Office

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

An 8-year-old girl and her 11-year-old brother were waiting in the doctor’s office with us yesterday. They said that their little brother was sick, and their mom let them stay in the waiting room to color while they visited the doctor. They were clearly getting on each other’s nerves. Here’s a conversation they had, taunting […]

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Another Talk Show, Another Reason To Overeat

February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Valerie Bertinelli was on Oprah this week talking about why she was 40 lbs. overweight for the last 10 years or so. She was depressed about her life and the direction it had taken, she said. Her marriage wasn’t good so she took to eating jalepeno poppers by the box full (Hello Pot! It’s […]

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Judge Not, Lest Blah Blah Blah

February 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Ok, so after being snarky about the people in the airport I found myself wearing workout pants and a long sleeved t-shirt to drop Katherine off at school. I had every intention of changing before picking her up, but I didn’t. To make it worse, it’s a t-shirt from 1995 and has two small holes […]

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Feeling Good From My Head To My Shoes

February 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I got a new attitude, baby! Well, a new look to my website, anyway, which gives me a very good attitude. What do you think? That husband of mine is clever, eh?
Thanks to everyone who has commented and emailed about losing most of the previous posts. As I told Caroline, I just feel fortunate that […]

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Gone Baby Gone

February 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

I guess we broke the internet again.
A server problem occurred (read: I have no idea what actually happened, but it involves words like drive, hosting and ‘Oh, Shit.’) and we’ve lost everything- all previous blog entries- so ya’ll will just have to remember how witty I was because I can’t prove it.
Regular programming will resume […]

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