Dialog witnessed by a dear friend between my daughter and her 6 friends at a birthday party:

Girl #1: "Just step on it!"

Cyan: "NO! You don't have to, it will go away."

Girl #2: "My mommy squishes them with shoes."

Girl #3: "My daddy gets poison and kills them all!"

Cyan, getting more and more dramatic by the momemnt: "Don't you care ( Read more... )

So I have one for you. Now Alex is saying he won’t eat the entire time he is grounded. Which this time is for two days. Which is only because he would not keep his tongue when he decided to toss his sister (and make her cry) off the porch while they were racing to the front door. He said “I only “moved” her.” [rolleyes] And then proceeded to ( Read more... )

You Are Likely an Only Child


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Lately I have been thinking a lot on cause and effect. Some things are easy to see... like the cause and effect of spendy money, and then not having it. lol... others are not so easy. Driving a lot in one week, and then your children being all out of sorts. Toddlers not feeling well, and so acting up just before they get visably sick. Climate ( Read more... )

Ever realized that you have been so preoccupied with how your ass looks you have forgotten to wash your face?

The world is going to die. lol... I am feeling a sense of doom about this season. For a few reasons:

For one... over 30% of the bees in western WA are now dead. Those are the critters that polinate our food. I have been looking for the last two days for people who sell Orchard Mason Bees to put s block in my garden and try to buffer my own ( Read more... )

Omg, it has been a LONG 5 weeks, but the 6th tooth is finally through. Yep, you read that right. He got the first of this set of 6 teeth just 5 weeks ago. That is a tooth a week (or more) for the last month and a half. Poor baby... omgoodness. But on a good note, he is starting to sleep a little bit. He wakes on average only twice now ( Read more... )

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...where you wish you were invisible.

We are high maintence library patrons.

Ok, so Cyan and I are checking out our 22 items from the library (these
are the items that were on hold), and Cyan went to look at the new
DVD's. As she is walking back to me to show me her finds, she spins
(pretty much as fast as she can) the DVD rack. DVD's shoot in about a
10 ( Read more... )