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I’m busy! All the time! I know I am not the first and nor will I be the last mom to utter these words. Busyness is a given with moms. Period. One kid? Two kids? Three or more kids? It makes no difference how many kids I have at home or out and about....
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I wrote a post over at my Baltimore Parenting Tweens Examiner site on the 2010 Census. I listed tips on how to explain the U.S. census to your tween. It got me thinking… I don’t remember completing the 2000 Census. I know I completed it, but I don’t have any recollection of the form....
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Dinner is a given. Dinner must be cooked. Dinner is always cooked by me. I would prefer to eat out. A frozen pizza sounds like dinner to me. All of the above statements make sense to me. How to solve my dinner dilemma? I posted a question over at DC CityMommy asking who knew...
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I saw the following chart in the Washington Post. I tore it out of the Washington Post. Sniff…sniff…this was when we still had the Washington Post delivered. I love reading the paper, but I was overwhelmed by 7 newspapers per week. I try to read the headlines online, but it isn’t the same as...
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I let snow, snow days, kids off school, shoveling, snow blowing, get in the way of picking my winner for the fabulous Joy Berry Book sets. I apologize. It won’t happen again. Do you forgive me? Say yes? Oh, goo! Now on to the winners. Joy Berry is a prolific author of parent-child books....
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Is it because I have a good sense of right and wrong? Is it because I loathe people who get away with murder (literally) over and over again? Is it because I take General Hospital too seriously? Probably, all of the above account for the reasons why I dislike Sonny Corinthos. Yes, yes, I...
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Prunes? I have no clear recollection of eating prunes as a child. Prunes were something that my grandmother might eat. I might have had prunes and custard as part of my school lunch at the Catholic convent school. At my school there was a “waste no want not” policy…so I ate the prunes. I did...
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Technology and me do not go together like carrots and peas. I have more than my fare share of odd blips when dealing with a computer, or phone, or TV, or you name the gadget and I probably have a story to tell. My husband has more than once figured out why the printer...
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Found this over at More than a Minivan Mom’s blog… You can add this to your blog, too! Instructions: Copy the list, bold the ones you’ve done (with explanations if needed), share with friends. 1. Started your own blog — January 2008, did not write regularly until late 08/early 09 2. Slept under the...
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I posted this over at DC.CityMommy.com, but wanted to post it here as well… Can I just say how much I adore Southwest? I flew Southwest to and from Houston for a Mommy Blogging Conference (Mom 2.0). I was initially worried about not having an assigned seat. I don’t fly regularly, but when I...
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