Motherwise Cracks

I got the power alright. The question is, will I give it back? Fall means my special pumpkin pie. It’s no ordinary pumpkin pie because I use a real pumpkin, not the canned stuff, and I use whole cream, fat and all. Here is this year’s ovoid beauty. I make one at Halloween but this [...]

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Lots of us moms are chopped liver. One would think that after a certain amount of time we would get used to it. Not me. Still burns. My daughter calls to say, in her “world-might-end” little way, that her driver side headlight went out and her tire is flat. Knowing that she has AAA, I [...]

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Do your kids groan at the mention of sex? When mine were younger, they had stronger stomachs (or didn’t have much of a clue yet) and I could broach the subject without ruining meals, their day, their life or whatever. Despite their gagging, it is something I bring up from time to time because they’re [...]

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Sometimes you get a chuckle in the strangest places, like the bathroom. Every morning for the past month, I have been looking over to see this. Now, the rest of the story. My husband has hardly any hair. It’s thin. It’s scarce. It’s straight. I don’t rightly know why he uses gel at all, but [...]

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I confess I like infomercials. Truth be told, I have many items purchased that way and a couple because I caved to the influence of my children. Like the Ab something-or-others that did AB-solutely nothing. I have closets full of such things, hidden so as to not to prove my husband’s favorite saying, “There’s a [...]

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So we took on the first part of the room cleaning yesterday, and today we are still playing around with the things we found – both my son and me. I have an alien in my cupboard now, a green-eyed monster type, guarding my memories. This little guy is a vestige of my son’s boyhood [...]

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I was going to use a beautiful photo of this particularly even field of winter wheat for a “Wordless Wednesday” type of post. Driving by it, I commented to my son that this field is probably the greenest green you’ll ever see. “I would need proof,” he says to me. “Speaking of which, I got [...]

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Did you ever wonder about these little boxes for coupon codes when you checkout for an online purchase? They are for these – Free Coupons. (Smart shoppers use them to save money and it really doesn’t take much time to find offers at this site.) I never used to use these coupons until a friend [...]

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