Motherwise Cracks

This is the scene of my latest embarrassemnt. I rolled down this whole staircase when my boot got caught on the carpet. I didn’t get hurt. I think my winter coat, which I still had on, protected me as I tumbled toward all the people and staff at the bottom right of the staircase. We [...]

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Well basketball season has started and a strange thing happened. We won! (To catch anyone up, our school just recently broke the 2nd longest losing streak in football in NY state history.) I arrived at the 3rd quarter and we were 17 points behind. “Oh, well. I know the drill,” I said to myself. This [...]

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My kids and I have this jingle for double stuff Oreos that we still think is a sure fire marketing slogan. We have been waiting for the company to announce a contest for 10 years. But I came up with this idea for a product that I really want made. It’s something you’d set to [...]

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I heard that blogging carnivals get you traffic. I went to blogcarnival.com and signed up for a “Family Funnies” carnival and low and behold I got lots (22) of bloggers with some pretty cute stories which are all posted here at my first “Family Funnies Carnival”. It was kind of fun and there are some [...]

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You can’t drop clues all over the place and not expect a thinking person to not pick up on them. Eee, gad. Now all three kids are mad at me for “ruining their Christmas present” but I plead no contest. They gave it away with these statements leading up to today: Mom, do I have [...]

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BusinessWeek just named my town one of the best places to raise your children. It’s based on academic test scores, cost of living, crime rate and a couple of other factors. Great to find that out but I knew it – that’s why I live here. We are often years behind the times. (It has [...]

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Last night, we went to see and hear the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The only tickets I could get were on the third level up. I knew my niece was afraid of heights but I thought once they turned out the lights, she’d be fine. Entering our section, I looked down. Maybe it was the 11 chocolate [...]

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This meme thing makes posting today a lot easier (probably more boring for readers) but I have been tagged for 7 random things. Here goes: I have a set of original Snow White and Seven Dwarfs garden statues. (They are out there freezing once gain as I have still not gotten them to winter safety [...]

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