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Letters to Aunt Kay: July 2015
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Letters to Aunt Kay. Open letters to my parenting muse. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Death of a SalesVan. Our dejected minivan finally shucked its mortal coil. Me: (puts feet up on the dashboard, and aims the A/C directly at pregnant torso) So how's the van doing? Joe: You know, it's actually doing amazingly well for being at almost 200k miles! Horrible engine noises) *Car refuses to accelerate*. Me and Joe: Oh shit. Naturally, we decided to try to coast it. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How Will I Know? On no...
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Letters to Aunt Kay: Death of a SalesVan
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Letters to Aunt Kay. Open letters to my parenting muse. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Death of a SalesVan. Our dejected minivan finally shucked its mortal coil. Me: (puts feet up on the dashboard, and aims the A/C directly at pregnant torso) So how's the van doing? Joe: You know, it's actually doing amazingly well for being at almost 200k miles! Horrible engine noises) *Car refuses to accelerate*. Me and Joe: Oh shit. Naturally, we decided to try to coast it. You are one brave mama.I took one kid to the D...
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Letters to Aunt Kay: Curious George and The Terrible Itch
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Letters to Aunt Kay. Open letters to my parenting muse. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Curious George and The Terrible Itch. Warning: Author is itchy and bitchy. I'm developing an obnoxious pregnancy complication that I had during my last pregnancy: obstetric cholestasis. It's getting bad enough that I've scratched open some of the skin on my feet from scratching in my sleep. The poor kids are sick of my being sick/bitchy and quite ready to return to school, I think. The only good news is that I have some rea...
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Letters to Aunt Kay: Why I'm A Little Bit Scared
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Letters to Aunt Kay. Open letters to my parenting muse. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Why I'm A Little Bit Scared. Top 10 Reasons I'm A Teensy Bit Scared To Have Another Son (Yes, these are all sexist). 10 My downstairs bathroom already. Smells like the reptile house at the zoo; more boys in our family = more packs of neighborhood boys coming over and missing the bowl. 6 The noise, oh the noise! It's just gonna get louder up in here. (Zach is entering the screaming two-year-old phase.). May 13, 2015 at 10:01 AM.
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Letters to Aunt Kay: Man in the Mirror
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Letters to Aunt Kay. Open letters to my parenting muse. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Man in the Mirror. Some stuff that came home in Elise's backpack this week:. I'm imagining the lesson: "and that's what's known as 'parental regurgitation behavior', kids. Okay, class dismissed for lunch.". Not sure what to think about this, entitled The Mirror. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Short Skirt / Long Stroller. How Will I Know? On not being the least bit surprised. We could be heroes. Ricky Gervais Broke My Heart.
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Letters to Aunt Kay: Short Skirt / Long Stroller
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Letters to Aunt Kay. Open letters to my parenting muse. Short Skirt / Long Stroller. Short Skirt / Long Stroller". To the tune of "Short Skirt/Long Jacket", with apologies to CAKE). I know a mom with a mind like a diaper. I know a mom who knows what's best. I know a mom with rear-view eyes. And a head that turns like a marionette’s. I know a mom with the kind approbations. Who's fast and thorough. And offers a snack. She's taking off her jewelry. She's putting up her hair. She's vacuuming the minivan.
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Letters to Aunt Kay: You've Got Male: Part Two
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Letters to Aunt Kay. Open letters to my parenting muse. Monday, April 27, 2015. You've Got Male: Part Two. Boy #4 is a go! And thank you, higher powers that be, for an apparently healthy baby! Elise was a little sad that it's not a baby sister, yes. But she is okay now. OMG, what am I going to do with FOUR BOYS running around my house? When I first tried to type that it came out horror lol oops) :). April 28, 2015 at 6:32 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Short Skirt / Long Stroller. Like a great s...
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Notes From the Bedside Table: YAY for THE PENDERWICKS!
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Saturday, December 20, 2014. YAY for THE PENDERWICKS! Monday morning, we'll have an extra second of daylight. When the nights are so long, when you need to feel a little less lonely or need a little more light in your life, stories can help. And.Ta DAH:. The Penderwicks are coming, the Penderwicks are coming! Oh, how I have missed them. I just finished Penderwicks in Spring. The penultimate book in the series, and I am already sad that there is only one more to come, probably in two years. Or a sick day.
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Letters to Aunt Kay: Baby Name Stories: Our Kids
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Letters to Aunt Kay. Open letters to my parenting muse. Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Baby Name Stories: Our Kids. I went through the scrapbooks to dig up these pics of the kids and remember the stories of how we picked their names. I am too lazy to dig through all the old hard drives for digital copies, but I wanted to respond to a new name blogger's query through nameberry. How They Were Named. Enthused. James was also the name of a child I knew when I was growing up; that. Zachary Allan: the name of boy...
