Motherwise Cracks

OMG, you have to check out this site. It’s a big deal because they have the best of them BEFORE anyone else. Yes, they know and publish what will be appearing in the sale fliers you get in the newspapers before the biggest shopping day in the year. No kidding, it has what items will [...]

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A Week In Review – Bad News: My car payment was due at the same time the school forgot to arrange bus transportation for my kid which means I had to do it and gas is still expensive. My hubby was home = I have to cook a real dinner and I didn’t have time [...]

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Inspired by the Tomato Follies, a very funny post at The More, The Messier, I ventured to get rid of some of the more embarrassing relics of past canning seasons still on my basement shelves. I hesitate to toss them year after year as they are a testimony to my homespun abilities, even though I [...]

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My kids are builders. The trouble is they use dishes. Sometimes I see them actually tip-toeing around so the vibrations from walking around won’t knock their stack over. Heaven knows, it would be deadly to take out a dishcloth and dry a few items so that you could prevent a fall. When I ask if [...]

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My daughter went across the pond this past summer and I had to worry – I am a mom so it’s my job. But being able to talk to her daily using a cheap calling card from Pingo was a Godsend. It was the first time I had ever used an International pre-paid calling card, [...]

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Out with the old, in with the new. It was a struggle getting my son to let go of his beloved leather binder. After a failed attempt to keep it all together using the power of duct tape, he was forced to turn to the new. I don’t understand this strange loyalty. I found one [...]

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Today’s quote is by Eleanor Roosevelt and likens women to tea bags – you don’t know how strong we are until we are in hot water. It is so true. I am nice. I am pleasant. When a woman is nice and pleasant, I think some people perceive that as her being weak. This pertains [...]

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In a moment of lucidity, I was reading a new Marketing Blog about personal finance, technology, marketing and politics, business etc. (all of which I usually don’t have the time to really get into except for when I am in a doctor’s office waiting room with one of the kids) and found some interesting comments [...]

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