This post is for Bridget Chumbley’s One Word Blog Carnival. Go visit to read more on this week’s word: Ego. Two of my children are approaching their teen years. They’re tweens, in today’s language. And their tweenitude comes with a healthy dose of insecurity, embarrassment, and self-centeredness. Everyone else is looking at them, making fun [...]

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And yet ANOTHER way for me to bring the conversation around to bodily functions. I swear, I didn’t even try this time. So anyway, my fellow former Cali girl Wendy at Weight What? participated in a gr8 meme full of 8s. And since I’m totally l8 in getting a blog post out and, as f8 [...]

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When he had his 33rd birthday, I came to the party on a whim. Drove all the way to his sister’s house 45 minutes away. Even got there early to yell, “Surprise!” To this day, I don’t remember why I went. I don’t even know how I got invited. What I do know is that [...]

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Hey! Just continuing the theme from yesterday. You know, of naming my post to alliterate with the day of the week? I wonder what I should do for Saturday… Sleep-in Saturday? Silly Saturday? No, too obvious. I’ll have to think this over some more. Anyway, I picked a flashback for today because I FINALLY learned [...]

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