Motherwise Cracks

My daughter and I played tennis and it was fun. I am better than her. I enjoy it a lot. She got tired way before me. I like that too. Too bad I don’t look like I am in better shape than her. So at the end of our practice, I ran into someone I [...]

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For his last birthday, my teen-aged son asked for pads of legal paper. He writes long diatribes on them and then gives them to his English teachers to comment on in their “spare” time – just for fun. (His fun, not theirs.) Right now, he is sitting in a chair on the canal bank, with [...]

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Last year I got this great stain for my wooden lawn furniture that had an almost translucent bit of color in the stain that still let you see the wood through it. I loved it, but apparently, I was in the minority. They discontinued the product and I had to go looking for something similar. [...]

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It’s back to school again and it’s quiet right now as we go from one extreme to another. While some mothers love the sounds of silence, they make me melancholy. (I got my dog the very day my last child started Kindergarten. It was unplanned but I couldn’t take the quiet.) But it wasn’t the [...]

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Today I discovered a way to enhance the quality and quantity of band practice. At first, band practice was touch and go and had a really rough start. Forgotten guitar strap, lyrics, a missing cord to some such thing, etc. I prodded to get them going as they only have so much time for practice. I [...]

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The April edition of the Motherwise Family Funnies are online now so please stop by and enjoy the things that keep moms and dads smiling. I also made it into the Buffalo News this weekend in an article where I sing the praises of small town life. Check it out here. People in town liked it. I was afraid they would ostacize me. (More than usual.) Right now I am [...]

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For some reason, and certainly not anything inherited from me, my kids all like to plan ahead. Way ahead. I myself am the procrastinating type and don’t understand their need for pre-planning. Hence, this weekend’s adventures on the summer job hunt. While one is employed currently, one has a summer job already lined up, and [...]

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I don’t know how I missed it. I understand that the men in the house missed it. They miss everything. But I am usually very observant. And this thing is the size of a grapefruit. How can you miss that? This Sunday, when the sun finally came out and temperatures ventured above freezing, we decided [...]

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