The other night Charlie and I were watching Design Star on the HGTV. Which we normally view between The Ultimate Fighter and What Not to Wear. Except during football season. (Our viewing choices, they are schizophrenic.) At the end of this episode of Design Star, the network aired a commercial for a new show. At [...]

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That’s riiiiiight! They’re gooooiiiiiiing BACK! In the early morning, before even the sun had risen, my alarm rang. After sleeping in all summer, I’d forgotten what it was like to wake up before dawn. And yet… I BOUNDED out of bed. I cheerfully awakened my children. I happily fed them breakfast and helped them pack [...]

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Today I’m sitting in my bed, but not because I’m sick. Actually I’m hiding. Listening to Snow Patrol and trying to write. From down the hall and through my locked door, I can hear what I’m hiding from. After exhausting every option for manipulating Mom into entertaining them, my kids have finally decided to go [...]

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On Twitter last week, my lovely friend Sarah laughed at my use of the word “stabby” to describe my mood at the time. (Stabby: A word that I can’t take credit for but am totally willing to be considered creative for using.) Anyway, I was feeling stabby about traffic in the Atlanta metro area, which [...]

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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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HOW long has it been since my last post? It feels like my summer has been kidnapped. Which is why I found this site so entertaining: The Ransom Note Generator. Simply type in the text of your ransom note, and it’s magically converted into your generic everyday disgruntled loner magazine letter script. Take a look [...]

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA. (Sorry. I don’t know what came over me.) SNORT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA. (Sorry. It’s just that…um… EASY? … what was I THINKING?) What’s really funny is that I started out writing a post about how this summer HAS been easy…-er. More easy. Easy-ish. Seriously, it HAS been different from past years, when having all three kids [...]

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With the kids home from school, I’ve been questioning my parenting even more than usual. It got me pondering, and I started to write something new. But then I remembered and reread this post from May of last year. And I decided it said most of what I was feeling AND offered me some encouragement. [...]

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What you are about to read is NOT fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is 100% accurate. This kind of thing really does happen here. Way too often. Abby was upside-down on the couch again. Stomach to the seat, legs against the back, head hanging down toward floor. THUD. Her head made floor [...]

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A riddle for you: What do you get when you combine the end of school, a dumb workbook deadline, (Oops, I mean “a workbook deadline imposed by my Beloved that is a blessing because it brings in some much-needed income”), …and my Beloved’s 50th birthday? Ready for the answer? An absentee blogger. (Or yet ANOTHER [...]

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