tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78397635707628143422012-02-16T20:07:57.707-08:00Our house it has a crowd, There's always something happening, And it's usually quite loudLily of Phillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00821431759169266712noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839763570762814342.post-35192730149692929622010-06-06T19:13:00.000-07:002010-06-07T04:58:07.658-07:00

$15 is all it costs to equip an automatic transmission with a break transmission shift interlock device or BTSI. This is the device that prevents the car's gears from being shifted unless someone's foot is on the brake. This is a very real danger that car manufacturers have known about for 30 years. If the key is in the ignition and turned to accessory mode, to turn on a radio, or DVD player, or

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For the Shirks, it was a day for their children to seek inspiration from Palin and the other speakers, who questioned Obama’s patriotism and at least one of whom referred to him repeatedly as Barack Hussein.The couple, who rely on Medicaid for their health care, were also upset about the nation’s new health reforms.When asked why her family used state-subsidized health care when she criticized

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Want to be in top physical condition? Forget the gym-work at Lowe's.I work in the paint department at Lowe's. I've never had such big guns in my life. Really, curling barbells every day for 30 minutes would produce a mere fraction of the musculature that I comes from lifting 1 gallon paint cans repeatedly throughout the day.For lower body exercise there's lifting 5 gallon buckets of paint.

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My baby deserves more than a baby daddy.Hope for your sake that you wake up and figure that out before she does.

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I'm a career SAHM. That's stay-at-home mom for those of you who missed the acronym born during the height of the mommy wars. Basically, with no college education, or training, and 4 kids to raise, it never really made sense for me to work full time outside the home. There were some spurts during the last 21 years that I have worked full time-at a daycare with my youngest in tow, at a home

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I went to Boston this past weekend with my family because my boys were putting on a concert with some Boston kids. The concert was actually in Cambridge, and thank goodness, during the daytime, because if I'd had to drive into there in the evening, we might have tossed the kids from the car and come back 3 hours later when they were done playing. What is up with this place and parking? It's not

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1. You need protein!2. What's in this?3. So, do you eat like a lot of tofu?4. I'm guess I'll be brave and try this.5.What about your kids?6. I could NEVER give up meat!7. You should have seen the size of pig on that rotisserie!8. You know what would be good in this vegetable soup-a big old ham bone!9. It's just pepperoni.10. Don't you get a lot of gas from eating all those beans?

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An editorial today in The Oregonian:Blame godlessness I could not help but notice all the coverage about the downtown shooting. All this coverage got me thinking -- the shooting was just a symptom of a much bigger problem. America lacks God.America was once a godly nation. Times were better. People were safer. However, we have stepped away from God. We have let humanist views slip into our

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It befuddles me that in this day an age, there are still people that don't know what an atheist is. I mean, I thought we were living in the information age? Aren't we the ones all over the news with our frivolous lawsuits and waging war on Christmas? Well, maybe that's some other atheists but that's not me. Anyway, here is a short summary of what an atheist is and isn't.The prefix A basically

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Since we in the USA are now preserving the sanctity of marriage and the moral fiber of the US through majority vote, I have a few propositions to make. These are all based on sound Biblical principles-of course:Proposition AOnly a marriage between a believer and a believer will be valid in the USA.2 Cor. 6:14-15Proposition BAll marriages are permanent.Genesis 2:24Proposition CA husband can

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So our society has a lot of problems, what else is new? You don't like things the way they are-then change them. You can sit around pointing fingers, judging and whining, or you can get up off your booty and make a difference in this world.You can start by voting. That's the least you can do-you know actually make some choices about the people that are running your town, state, and country,

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1. Cut back the cable. Yes, I know this seems like a very simple idea, but many of us have forgotten that those sitcoms, dramas, and sports games we enjoy so much are beamed to our television at a quite a high price. Lest you suffer from boredom, you can substitue with Netflix. Their plans are extremely reasonable, and you can even watch movies online any time you wish.2. Turn it off, switch it

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Sometimes less is more. After all my extensive searching to find the cutest, most technologically advanced nappies to cover Kayden's bum, what do I end up using the most-Indian prefolds, which cost roughly $1.50 a piece. Actually, these little beauties didn't cost me anything. Gotta love Freecycle! I don't know if it's the lovely unbleached natural color, of the fluffy softness of these prefolds,

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Kayden Michael was born on October 11, 2008 at 7:20 am, weighing 7lbs. 4oz. I was there to witness his birth, and behold as my little girl became a mom.

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Some people use cloth diapers because they are environmentally friendly. Others because they don't want to put something full of toxic chemicals on their baby every day. Still others enjoy the economic benefits of investing in reusable cloth. And of course there's the comfort that comes from swaddling babe in cotton, velour, and feece, as opposed to paper and plastic. These are all good reasons

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My family is f***ed up! That's how it appears at a quick glance. 2 kids over 18, with no diplomas or GED's. One's pregnant, and unmarried of course. For good measure we invited her 20 y/o boyfriend to live here. Ahem, then there's my 16 y/o son, who excels at music, and skateboarding, but not academics-not in the traditional sense anyway. The youngest, he is a real gem, extremely smart, but

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No, it's not just the new color of my page. We're becoming Suburban Homesteaders! We've started a vegetable garden, and gotten a rain barrel. (we will be getting more) And I've got a cart-full of cloth diapers online to be shipped. Why are we doing this? We're doing it so that we can survive in the future. Peak Oil is here, and that mean the gas prices, along with everything that is transported

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This is a very important petition to God. If you're a Christian (heck, even if you're not), please add your name, and pass it on to everyone you know. Billions of souls could be saved!Dear God,I know you have a big plan that you must have spent a long time working on. I know your plan is to let all those who accept your son Jesus as their savior go to heaven-a beautiful place where everyone is

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Lately it seems that some in this country want to engage in a game of "blame the atheist". I will be writing a series of blogs examining some hot issues in this country concerning religious and political issues, starting with the Pledge of Allegiance. The claimAtheists are making a big deal out of nothing. They want the Pledge of Allegiance banned because it says "under God". 1916In Chicago, 11

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Do you ever think that you might be hurting someone's feelings when you expouse your .02 theory on ADHD, or any other mental disability? Really, you know one person who got the wrong medication, a misdiagnosis, or made a hasty decision, and you think you know everything?Did it ever occur to you that people with ADHD are human beings, many of which have suffered their whole lives, not knowing why?

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I wrote quite a while back about how we began homeschooling. Shame on me for not continuing the story sooner.3 weeks of school had gone by in Red's 3rd new school in 3 years. I had seen the classroom they had my son relegated to-a dingy 9 x 12 modular at the end of the school, with stained carpet, and sallow walls. Mrs. S. wanted to talk to me about Red's math. She felt he couldn't do 5th grade

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I try to teach my children to be proactive, thing long term, and to delay gratification. The fact that I have not learned to successfully implement these ideals has not escaped me. I'm trying to teach my children all the things my parents never taught me. My parents did not talk to me like a person. They talked to me like I was a silly, annoying child.It's important to worry. But it's fruitless

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I am weird. I will not even try to deny it. Crazy, yes, I am crazy too. I've already been to the therapist, and I'm already on medication, so if you don't like the finished result, there's nothing I can do about it.I am a momma bear. I can tolerate a lot of bullshit, but not when it comes to my kids. If you mess with my kids, watch out!My kids are homeschooled. This does not mean that I think

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I've really been slacking off here. Ever since I found Cafemom, that's all I do. Mainly I debate with people. Anyway, about 4 weeks ago, my baby, AJ had an appendicitis. Of course he needed an emergency appendectomy.Being that I was in denial when the doctor told me to take AJ to the emergency room, I drove to the closest one, Central M. Medical Center, not thinking that my son would need to stay

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I am not an atheist because I am mad at God.To be mad, I'd have to believe first.Just because I am an atheist doesn't mean I'm immoral.I just don't have your morals, or feel the need to push mine on anyone else.I'm not an atheist because I am too lazy to go to church.That's just one of the perks.I will not stop being an atheist because you show me pictures of babies, flowers, and rainbows,any

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In two more days I will be 39 years old. Thirty-nine years old! This is it, I'm reaching the pinnacle of the hill! This is my last year to fool myself into thinking I'm still young. I really am quite young, relatively. I am much younger than many of my children's friend's parents. Guess that's something. I don't feel like I'm pushing 40, but when I look in the mirror I am becoming less and less

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If you're a fellow homeschooling parent, I'm sure you've gotten the question, "What about their socialization?" You could be standing in the middle of a party while your offspring are running around organizing a game of capture the flag, and they'll still say it! You could be at scouts, or music lessons, and you still get it!So here are 10 answers to that inevitable question:1. Socila-what? What

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I haven't posted for over a week, so this is what's been going on:My boys were in a presentation of Pink Floyd's The Wall 3 weeks ago.Last week DH and I went to Lancaster and made an attempt at a romantic weekend.This past Saturday the boys were in a Best of Season show with two of their songs from "The Wall". On Sunday one of the other music school families had an awesome pool party. Oh, and I

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"Enthralled with To Kill a Mockingbird" We're wrapping up our school year here, and scrambling to put together portfolios to show the school district that we don't just sit around here listening to metal music, and blowing bubbles all day. Homeschooling is a life style. It's not a classroom at the kitchen table where the kids sit for 6 hours a day. Oh no! Still sometimes I think maybe were not

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AJ: Mom, I got a fish from the creek.Mom: Put it back it'll die.AJ: I've had it in a bowl for 3 days; it won't die.Mom: Well it's gonna die; put the poor thing back10 months laterAJ: Mom, I gotta 'nother fish.Mom: From where?AJ: From Mikey; he got 10 for a dollar.Mom: Well don't put it in the same bowl as the other fish; they'll fightAJ: I put them both in the big aquarium (the 10 gallon one in

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My husband thinks everything is sexy on me. Almost every day, he asks why I am wearing my "sexy" underwear, when he's going off to work.I look down and say, "Why are these my sexy underwear?""Because they're red" or "pink",or "black", or "have hearts on them", or "lace", or "cherries", or "stripes....."One time my husband saw me at work at "Big Box Mart". I was bending over the counter scanning

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Crohn’s disease is an incurable disease which affects the digestive tract. My daughter, Lee, has the most severe form of the disease. Her entire digestive tract's been affected, from ulcers in her mouth, down her esophogus, to her stomach, and throughout her intestines.As with many Crohn's patients, my daughter also suffers from fistulas. Fistulas are large ulcers that bore their way into the

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My daughter, Lee, if moving back into our home this week. She seems very relieved. This will take a lot of pressure off of her. Now she'll be able to get her driver's licence, finish school, and find a better job. Actually all she seems to care about right now is redecorating the room she's going into.Those that comment that I will drive her away don't know my family. We are very tight. And

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Hey Baby, sure is nice here under this tree! How about a little kiss?How dare you! Don't even think about it, Mister!

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I do sincerely believe that children are not given enough time these days to just daydream. Daydreaming is undervalued. In a society where new parents scramble to make geniuses out of their kids with Baby Einstein videos, and designer toys that were drafted by some developmental scientist in Sweden, one has to wonder how we as a society survived and flourished for so long on nothing but a rattle

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Why is it that most men maintain ties with the same buds for decades, and women let their friendships slip away into oblivian? There's college, the boyfriends, the husbands, kids, careers. They all put little roadblocks up on the highway of friendship, or at the very least some serious detours.So your childhood pals, and highschool homegirls are gone; what do you do now? Where does an adult woman

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Wednesday night, I couldn't muster up the effort to make dinner. It was getting late. I was bummed because my husband, Randy, got called in to meet a customer at his part time job. As if 2 nights this week weren't enough to miss him, now we we were on our third in a row.So, my two boys and I headed out the door and drove up the highway and into the "country" to this nice diner nearby Randy's job.

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It seems like a lifetime ago-someone else's lifetime. The memories are not of me, but of someone else that I hovered over, observing, knowing the wrongness of it all. Even way back, before the blowout, I do not know that person. The memories are there, they're my memories, but I was a different being. Fractions of myself presented themselves, but the personage was irrational, with a

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I moved to my current home in the Philadelphia Suburbs in 2000. That summer I had wallpaper hung in my dining room, and the matching border in my living room. There was also paper hung in the front hall, upstairs hall, and stairwell. I got a great deal on the paper; I was working at a wallpaper store at the time. The wallpaper hanger was expensive, but he did a flawless job. My beautiful rooms

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You know that nostalgic Clorox commerical with the women all doing the laundry? The laundry room changes through the decades as they show great-grandma, then the grandmother, then the mother doing the laundry.http://youtube.com/watch?v=TZeQUxSjHwULast night while DH and I were in bed this commercial came on."They all did the laundry....maybe even a man or two."DH: Did they say "a man or two."Me:

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"PIGGY MOVIE!!!, PIG-GEEEE MOVIEEEE!!!!" G is hysterical, Jac is looking at me tentatively, binky in mouth, as if to say, "I'm good, just put on the stupid piggy movie if that's what he wants, as long as I get some quiet." I expeditiously scan the room for the VHS cassette of Babe. Most of my children's movies are on VHS. DVD's didn't become popular till my kids were out of the kiddie movie phase

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My dear husband is seeing a therapist. I've been after him for years to go, but he had a major distrust of mental health services. Actually, Randy has trust issues in general, which is one of the reasons he's seeing a therapist.So, today, Randy's therapist started Gestalt Therapy with DH. The therapist had Randy make up a name for the side of himself that causes conflict. Randy named his

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I'm not used to this anymore. Little Gio keeps pushing the buttons on the TV, VCR, phone, computer, anything he can find. Gio is also trying to push my husband's "buttons". It's taken 4 short days at my house for Gio's personality to appear. Gio is taunting my husband. First he took Randy's chair when he left the room, and proudly thumped his chest saying, "My chair." Then, since that wasn't

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After a year of rangling, and a less than encouraging IEP meeting, Red was on his way to another new school. Red rode 45 minutes each way. He was in a mixed class of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, all with different DX's, lables, prescriptions, what have you...Red was a "part-time" special ed student. Now let me explain to you what a P/T sped. student means. When the SD designed an IEP for my son

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" Borrowed Baby III" arrived yesterday. It's a boy, roughly 2o some pounds I guess. Gio will be 3 next month. He likes "cool cars" (Hot Wheels). He has an affectionate side; he spent a great deal of the day cozying up to Jules and giving her kisses on the head. Gio can hold his own in toy disputes. He likes to dance. He also has no problem making himself right at home.Yesterday was a really

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We've got a new baby. He's coming on Monday. 2 1/2 year old Gio was referred to me through Lee. He'll be here 4 days a week. He came over yesterday to meet us. He was a little shy at first. Then AJ pulled out the Hot Wheels cars and he started to warm up. Randy also "broke down his barriers", by laying on the floor and rolling a ball to him. By the time the visit was up, the boy didn't want to

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A heart on a sleeve is a sensitive thingIt beatsfor all the world to seeIt bares and breaksagain and againIt aches; it achesit can not mendIt bleeds; it disturbsa discomfort to allCringes back with the painof all it can't solveIt wonders; it pondersIt braces itselfWhile others are safetucked away on a shelfIt waits; it longsIt reaches out"Is anyone out there?",one hears it shout.A heart tucked

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My family and I moved out of Philadelphia in 2000. We chose a home in a suburb with a "good school district". Aside from just wanting to get out of the city, we felt that our children, particularly Red needed services that their current parochial school could not provide. We actually moved in October, so I had to drive my 4 children back and forth to school, an hour each way for 3 weeks.One child

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Friday night after dinner, Randy and I suddenly hear "shrieking". It's one of the first signs of spring, Dog-Cat has caught something. We both got up to head outside & see what Dog-Cat had got a hold of, but we didn't have to go far. Dog-Cat had brought his prey in the house.It was a cardinal, a young one, probably just out of the nest. It was in his mouth flapping it's poor defenseless wings

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Someone invited me to go to the Q-Mart recently to buy fruit. Q-Mart is a big indoor/outdoor flea-market. There are food & produce stands, and all sorts of "flea-markety" things for sale. As I looked around the Q-Mart, I realized that I was standing in a white trash mecca. Now I'm not judging, afterall, I was in the Q-mart on a Friday night, so how cool am I?So here as my ode to the Q-Mart is my

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I paused today for just a momenta moment of stillnessfrom my hectic worldI heard the windchimes at my doortinkling in the breezeI felt the softness of my comfy couchand the smoothness of the baby's cheeksmelled her sweet baby headand the aroma of springI saw a boy absorbed in a bookand a little girl engaged in blocksI sipped my warm coffee and thoughtLife is good

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Yes, that's right; I'm not good with ghosts. This is because I get very attached to people, too attached for my own good. It's just too painful for me to let go of people, so I don't. Yes, I know how "psycho" this is. It's clingy, neurotic, maybe even "stalkerish". It can't be helped, once my complicated mind connects with another person's mind, the bond is hard for me to break, no matter

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I start my day at 6:15 a.m. I creep downstairs and open the door to greet a dad with 2 babies. The 2 year old, goddess bless her, goes down in a crib and right to sleep. The 2 month old sometimes goes back to sleep, and sometimes performs an intermittent performance of whines, snorts, and spit-ups for the next 2 hours.At 8, I call out to my boys to get up, eat, and do whatever they have to do to

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When I left work tonight, there were two men there who came to kill the wild birds in the store.Why are these birds inhabiting Big Box Mart?Because we sell WILD BIRD FOOD.(We also sell table top fountains that make nice bird baths)

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If you grew up in the 70's, you probably watched a few Peanuts cartoons. Remember those scenes with Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football? It always started with Lucy telling Charlie Brown that she'd hold the football, while Charlie Brown kicked. Of course Charlie was always skeptical, as Lucy time and time again had pulled that football away just before the moment of impact. But sure enough, old

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My mom is a Roman Catholic, and comes from a long line of Roman Catholics. My dad, however, is a Southern Baptist. This interfaith upbringing gave me the first conceptual step toward my Atheism, Conceptual step 1:Religious doctrine is subject to interpretation.My mom got her way for the most part, and I and my brothers were raised Catholic, & attended parochial school for 12 years. I never quite

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Like clockwork, it is now 1:45, and both BB's (Borrowed Babies) are down to nap. Jac actually said, "I need to go in my crib." Jules was fussy, so I held her. Then she fell asleep. Red is doing his Algebra practice work. AJ is working on reading questions from Animal Farm.All is right with the world.

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I've known Mo since freshman year of high school. We've had an on again, off again friendship for the past 24 years. She's one of those quirky people, that I've always admired. I always thought it was geeks like us vs. the rest of the world. And I always thought that every time she strayed away from me, she'd come back. The longest was a 3 year period, during which time, she moved in with a guy,

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Boy, nothing like sleep depravation and sinus problems to zap your creativity!I'll just share two little odd facts about myself today.1. I was born at 12:30a.m. on July13th. This was of course during Daylight Savings Time. I don't know why, but the hosptial recorded my birthday in Eastern Standard Time, thus changing my official birth record to 11:30P.M., July 12th. So, I kind of have 2

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It's a little late for New Year's Resolutions, but I'm thinking some Life Resolutions are in order.1. I will no longer try to maintain relationships with people that don't care about me, or accept me for who I am.2. I will no longer do favors for people who never say thank you, or return the favors.3. I will not seek attention by being flirty, or shocking people.4. I will appreciate every single

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BB1, who is 2 years old, just informed me that Buddy (her brother) got F***ing toothpaste on the G-Damn rug.Children, aren't they precious?

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Here's another chapter in the story of "My Family VS Natural Selection"...DH, the boys, and I drove down to Williamsburg last August for a two day excursion. It was drizzling the whole way down to VA, but we remained hopeful. We got to the time-share late at night and went to sleep almost right away. The next day, it was cloudy, but we'd already paid for passes and drove 7 hours, so we were going

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You know how hard it is to find a good hairdresser? Imagine that you need your hair done, but you can only go to a select group of hairdressers. You're "hairdressing provider", who is paying for your hair care, gives you a list of names and numbers of hairdressers that you may go to with their approval. You call these hairdressers, and a quarter of them say they are not taking new clients.

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When I tell people I homeschool, 9 times out of 10, I get the same response, "I don't think I could do that." Guess what? I'm not so sure I can do it either. I do know that it beats the alternative.When most people think of homeschoolers, they picture religious fundementalists, who shun evolution and sex education, in favor of sheltering their children and implementing Christian values. Or, they

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The ship went down a long time ago. I'm not quite sure when, or what exactly happened, or who, if anyone's fault it was. All I know is that I found myself one day in a lifeboat, a small rubber raft, floating in the sea and not knowing in which direction I would find my harbor. This lifeboat, this woefully inadequate vessel was slowly taking on water, and I and my children were sinking. I tried

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My family and I are involved in an ongoing battle with the laws of natural selection. There have been many times where Natural Selection has gotten the better of us. The villianous fiend sneaks up, waits in the lurch for one moment of weakness, poised to pounce. He can change form in an instant to ambush us, the unknowing victims.For instance, once NS turned himself into a telephone pole and lept

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I met my husband at Community College of Philadelphia. He was a music major, and I was an art major.I didn't realize when I enrolled that being able to doodle well does not make one an artist.My husband told me that the first time he ever saw me was at Bridge & Pratt, coming off the "El" train and getting on the a bus. He said I had on a pink sweater, black stirrup pants (Remember those? I am

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On one crazy Saturday at Big Box Mart: I was called out of the breakroom at work to wait on a customer. When I got to my department, I had a woman waiting for me to cut 4 roller shades. I went to measure the shades, because at first glance I knew they did not come from my store. (I assumed they were her old shades, and she wanted new ones the same size.)The customer interjects, "I bought these

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Hi, my name is Lori-Ann. I am what I consider to be an unusual person. Here are 10 factoids about me.I am:1. 39 years old, married 18 years &the mother of 3 teenage children, and one preteen2. a "stay at home mom" I hate that phrase, but for simplicty's sake, I will use it here3. a homeschooling mom 4. an atheist5. an adult with ADHD6. a "middle child"7. a "soccer mom", but my kids don't play

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