Archive for the ‘Daughters’ Category

Gretel & Gretel

5.24.07

Chatterbox and Giggles have the unfortunate habit of eating their food/snacks all throughout the house. yes yes, I realize it's my fault. As you can imagine, this is causing extra cleanup for mom because there are inevitably cracker remnants, popsicle drippings and the occasional grape in all possible nooks and ...

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I’ll Take *Lovely* for $1000, Alex

5.14.07

I have good news and bad news...Whatch'a wanna hear first?The Bad News: My Mother's Day Weekend has come to a close. The Good News: It was lovely! Remember my fun-filled day of errands on Friday? Well, as it turns out, I ended up at the mall for about 3 hours ...

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Melt-down

4.30.07

So yesterday was our first public melt-down - it was horrific. The day started off great. DD slept until 10:30 a.m. (she's usually up at 8:30 a.m.), much to our satisfaction and we thought - wow, this is going to be a great day! We won't have a ...

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All Hail the Queen…

4.13.07

[Congrats Jones! You wrote our 200th post!]So last night Oldest starts complaining that her hand hurts. As far as hubby and I can tell, she may have hurt it only slightly -- doing whatever it is that toddlers do -- but let me tell you that she is milking this ...

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"Look at me!" Is what she said.

4.4.07

Just when you thought the day was going to go smoothly because you were all dressed, the kids were dressed, and everything was right on schedule, your two year old found the hair conditioner and put the entire tub in her hair. This, about 20 minutes after you finished making ...

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MamaLaw #13 – I’m every Woman

4.3.07

"I'm Every Woman"You know how they say (and we know) that being a mom means taking on a bunch of different roles? I.e. a teacher, chef, laundress, nurse, chauffeur, personal assistant, mediator, groomer, psychologist, personal shopper, maid, etc.? Well lately I have totally been playing the nurse/psychologist role with ...

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Shall We Dance?

4.1.07

What is it about putting on a pretty dress that makes a girl want to put some dancing music on and get jiggy with it? Daughter LOVES wearing "peety dresses" and getting all dolled up. Today I put on one of her new dresses for church, fixed her hair all ...

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