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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Hey, Thank you to all who’ve commented or Tweeted your condolences to our family this week on the passing of Charlie’s dad. Charlie has been really busy with funeral arrangements and dealing with the estate. Here in Georgia, life kinda goes on. So in that vein, yesterday the kids and I went to see “UP.” [...]

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So I have not felt like being funny at all the last couple days. Something to do with a tummy ache and fatigue and general malaise. (Isn’t that a cool word? Malaise. So very FRENNNNNNCH. Malaise. Malaise. Malaise. I feel like Fancy Nancy.) Without any funny of my own, I’ve been having staring contests with [...]

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TO DO LIST FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009 DAY: Go to kids’ school for “Hat Party” where kids get honored for all the reading they’ve done in a month. Wonder how I’d feel about wearing a paper-thin plastic “construction” hat with reading stickers on it if I was 11. Rejoice that I will never again [...]

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I did warn you. This post  is what you get when I stay up till midnight surfing the blogosphere. Thursday night, my friend Katdish of Hey Look a Chicken fame linked to a blog I’d never visited before, Chronicles of Marnia. (Hi Marni!) So when I visited Katdish around 11:30, I clicked over to Marni… [...]

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Howdy Y’all! Didja miss me? With three kids home all day every day for another week, I’ve been a little busy… Taking kids out to spend their Christmas money. Eating Christmas candy. Being mocked by my new Wii Fit. (Skinny digital trainer chick: “Maybe balance just isn’t your forte. Work every day on the easier [...]

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Saturday Christmas Links NORAD’s Santa Tracking We get a kick out of this site. They track Santa on radar throughout the night on Christmas Eve. Between now and then, explore the Kids’ Countdown section, which is filled with games and activities. Family Fun Magazine Online I’ve been a subscriber to Family Fun for years now, [...]

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“MOM! There’s a girl on the bus whose wrist can go around 360 degrees!!!!!!!” LC was shouting as he climbed in the truck at the bus stop. “It was so awesome! It could go WA, then WA, then WA, then WAHHHH!!” [picture him rotating his arm enough to contort his whole body.] Hannah: “It was [...]

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So I’ve spent the morning trying to figure out what to write about. The kids behaved this morning. I volunteered at school without setting off any alarms. Grocery shopping was uneventful. I got nothin. So what does any good blogger do under those circumstances? She steals from someone else! Kidding. Seriously, that’s plagiarism. But what [...]

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Today I checked out all the search terms that have led people to my blog in the past few months. And I must say, there’s a fascinating sociological study in there somewhere. Hm. I’ll get right on that. But in the meantime, here are the best and brightest, followed by my sparkling commentary. Scattergories questions, [...]

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