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Valentine’s Schmalentine’s

The older I get, I find myself crossing over to the "Valentine's Day is just a commercial, made-up holiday with no real relevance other that to guilt people into buying something for their significant other because you kind of have to or risk looking View Post

I Have To Get This Off My Chest

Dear Mr. Weatherman,All I can really say at this point is FAIL! That light dusting ofsnow looks nothing like the 1-3 inches you promised and assured all of us we would get a snow day because of. I'm donewith you. Done! Your predictions mean nothing View Post

All Eyes On Me

I was already "having a Monday". It was the kind of Monday where it's cold and raining, and I had to muster up as much get up and go as I could to make it through the day, topped off with the mother of all tantrums from E.B. while taking him to View Post

Sick Children Make For Tiny Tyrants

Being taken care of when you're sick is a wonderful thing. It helps to know that when you can't do for yourself, someone is there to step in and make sure the house is kept clean, food is prepared for you (and the rest of the healthy ones), and that View Post

Poop On Croup

E.B woke up yesterday with a terrible sounding cough. It was like nothing I had ever heard before, and at first, I seriously thought it was our fat male cat Clyde hacking up a hairball. Yes, gross, I know. I can always tell when E.B. doesn't feel View Post

Alternative Birthday Idea

As I looked around E.B.'s bedroom this past week I made an executive decision. Based upon the outrageous amounts of toys received during the holidays and making note that all but 2 of those toys had seen actual playtime, I decided that E.B. would View Post

The Case For No More Babies

While looking through baby pictures of E.B. tonight, I started remembering things. Things like tiny, brand new little baby hands: Things like chubby baby arms and thighs: And cute little ears. And I am convinced, now more than ever of View Post

Girl Goes Geek

I've written in the past about how slow I am to adapt to technology, but today I outdid myself and here is why I deserved the two slices of cheesecake I had today. I was already super annoyed by the fact that my laptop was missing a couple of keys View Post

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