Motherwise Cracks

I had just checked my little gold-finned charge and fed him. He was fine. Of course, he would have to belly-side up the very day my daughter came home from college for the weekend, giving me no time to pull a switch. (Shamu, a goldfish, had sentimental value as her boyfriend won him for her [...]

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Ah, the joyful sounds of children in their perpetual pursuit of a snack. Cupboards open and close amid slams of the refrigerator door in between long periods of time when it is held open, air conditioning your whole first floor. Despite all the shopping you may have subjected yourself to, and the stocking and inventorying [...]

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Hurray! Hurray! The answer is clear.
It’s this little thing that foams up the beer! Guinness rocket
But all joy of my eye-opening discovery,
Couldn’t bring my Bills fans out of recovery.

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It’s so hard to please a crowd! Sometimes your “in” and sometimes a pathetic “out” with your children. Oh, sure when they are little, you’re all that. In fact, a great deal of your day is spent trying to get any work done as they want your full-time attention. They get older and friends become [...]

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There is saying something and then, there is SAYING something, or saying SOMETHING or SAY something. It’s all in the emphasis, tone, stress – it’s all in how you say it.Such was this morning’s lesson to my tone-deaf son who has begun to talk to me like I have become stupid overnight. One day, out [...]

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Joeprah (love that name) tagged me and I decided to comply because he loves BUFFALO WINGS and we all know that warms anyone from Buffalo right up. Here are my tens: 1. What were you doing ten years ago? While the kids were all finally in school, I was working part-time at a TV station, [...]

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I think that women are a lot more particular about what’s inside the home than men are – in general. My towel bar actually fell off the wall and when I told my husband, he went up and hot glued it back in. I really was expecting him to get me a new one but [...]

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