Motherwise Cracks

Yes, I know this post will get lots of atteniton from perverts with the title as it is, but if someone is stupid enough to come here after a Google search for such things, they deserve to be duly disappointed. (It’s amusing to see that one of my posts that has “but” in the title [...]

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Today was the day of the big speech in high school English class. After class, I heard another one that I would classify as the “argument” type with a touch of “persuasive” thrown in. I decided not to make it a debate. I’d done that before and got nowhere. Now, have you ever told your child not to [...]

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My daughter celebrated her 21st birthday this weekend and I am having some mama trauma. I don’t ask much of my kids (they would disagree), but one request I was adamant about was that they not grow up. Yes, I am one of those strange mothers who actually loved it when the kids were little. [...]

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It’s the latest thing – cousin night. My sister-in-law’s kids and mine are very tight. We live a couple of miles apart, and out in the country that means they are very close, and the kids basically grew up together. They spent summers rotating every Monday at one aunt’s house and every Tuesday at the [...]

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There are some goodies this month on the Family Funnies carnival I am hosting – check them out here. And today my niece showed me her newly painted room. On the wall, she pointed out her favorite saying to me, which is coincidently, today’s quote. “Character is what you do when no one else is [...]

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My husband is a frugal guy so he shocked the stuffing out of me when he ordered a turducken for about $75 to TEST it! Yes, a test. He is planning on buying 2, count ‘em, 2 of them to serve the extended family on our summer vacation. That’s about 30 people, mind you. The [...]

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The girls made breakfast and it was so big we didn’t even want to eat lunch. The wouldn’t let me do a thing. Not even dishes. Then they made dinner that I got to pick out, and it was so big we could hardly stuff down the dessert. Again, I did nothing, except open gifts. Post [...]

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My son, who never wins anything and can’t compete with his “perfect” sisters entered a competition today making precision tools or something I don’t understand. He tries to explain what he does with a lathe and fractions. I shake my head and pretend to get it. Supposedly he did real well but more importantly, he [...]

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