Yesterday the kids and I went to Morton Arboretum to hang out with friends. It looked to me like everyone and their brother, and their brother’s neighbor, and the neighbor’s stepson, were at the Arboretum yesterday. This made for a parking lot reminiscent of Thunderdome, and there was one old man wearing a hat who wanted to pick a fight. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s A Reason Hamster Moms Eat Their Young
October 5, 2011 at 10:46 am (Attitude, Close Call, Crazies, Hindering Bliss, Homeschooling, Jeff, Logic, N, Parenting, Personal Injury)
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Yesterday we had a fabulous day at MRU. The weather was superb, the friends were plentiful and entertaining, the kids seemed to really enjoy each other…
Then there was N. My sweet, adorable, lovable N. Quirky, argumentative, baffling N. Sometimes I wonder: If I was a hamster, would I have eaten him as a baby? Read the rest of this entry »
Monday Morning Quarterbacking
October 3, 2011 at 1:31 pm (Art, Blogging about Blogging, Cub Scouts, E, Following Bliss, Homeschooling, Literature, Math, Monday Re-cap, N, Personal Injury, Poetry, Science)
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I was planning to do a weekly wrap-up of our previous week, but I can’t remember most of the details of what we did. Read the rest of this entry »
The Day the Music Died (but only temporarily, and it won’t happen again)
September 30, 2011 at 2:22 pm (Blather, Blogging about Blogging, Crazies, E, Homeschooling, Jeff, Mornings, N, Not very interesting)
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I’ve been away for awhile. Not in jail or the looney bin or anything, but things got busy and all of a sudden more than a year went by. I fully intended to resurrect the blog on the one year anniversary of the last post, but I think we can all deal with that particular deadline coming and going. If you can’t hang with my tardiness, we probably shouldn’t be pretend online friends anymore. Just saying. Read the rest of this entry »