Motherwise Cracks

Another day off of school today. The kids just had a day off for a Superintendent’s Conference day last month, they had a week off in Feb., there’s another week off in two weeks, in addition to the usual Federal holidays. And you know darn well that the day before the week-long holidays are spent [...]

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Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Just this week I learned: That with the “Elimination Diet” one would be “eliminating” a lot more This photo on my fridge isn’t of anyone we know. It was in a purchased frame. The kids just thought they were cute. (Like I don’t have enough [...]

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When we went to pick up my son from his work camp experience, we had to wait for him to get this great “thing” he found when cleaning. His job was “cleaning” at three different locations (soup kitchen, halfway house, retirement home). This shocked me because he is organizationally and hygienically challenged, and wouldn’t know [...]

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Three days of a few hours of sleep each night spent on a floor with 50 teenagers. Days spent volunteering at a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, and a retirement home for the religious followed by overcooked food and group discussions. Sound hellish? But someone was looking forward to it for weeks. My son is at [...]

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What were they thinking? I mean the adults advising the kids at school. My son’s school is collecting clothes for people in Nicaragua, which is really nice. They named the clothing drive something that I can’t get myself to post it here. Let’s just say the first word rhymes with “snickers” and means short pants [...]

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Does anyone remember the commercial (ages ago) where the little girl is constipated and the mom wonders out loud if 3 prunes is enough, or if 4 is too many? I think it was for some Milk of Magnesia product. I feel like that mom and a prune. My daughter, who lives away from home [...]

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I heard on the news this morning what I have been noticing and saying for a few years now. Families want good movies where they don’t have to worry about exposure to inappropriate talk on the big screen. Duh. I have the naive notion that people in Hollywood wanted to make money. (Hello. Did they [...]

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I dare ask this question (that one would never pose aloud to your children) because I just hosted a blogging carnival where I left specific directions on what type of posts I wanted.  It is called the “Family Funnies” carnival and guess what? It’s about funny family and parenting stories. A real shocker. (FYI – [...]

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