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I took the girls to see Wicked today. The ticket for my one daughter was part of her birthday present. The play was very good, better than I expected and we ate afterwards. It was a very enjoyable day and we even lucked out getting a primo parking spot in Buffalo. Some guy actually signaled [...]

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Things have been very busy in the “do gooder” department in our household. Seems that I have a real talent for making tickets for raffles, drawings and lotteries that look just like a printer did them, so I have become inundated with requests for tickets. I have just completed the annual Goat Chip Bingo tickets, [...]

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The June Family Funnies Carnival is now alive and posted. Please hop over and read these funny, cute and most certainly entertaining blog posts about family life. I do so enjoy reading the submissions when they come in and hope you do too. And if you really like them, feel free to submit your blog post about your kids, parenting or the like for the upcoming July edition. —- “Families are [...]

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Tomorrow is the final Regents Math exam.  So this is the question and answer session my son and I had last week. Child:       Would you be very upset if I failed the Math B exam? Mom:      That depends on your definition of “upset.” If you mean will you be grounded until you get a passing grade, have to take summer school and pay me [...]

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It’s the last day of my last child’s school year. I will be posted at the end of the driveway with my camera to take the traditional ‘end of the year’ shot, which I have taken every year for every child. I match it up with their first day of school shot and hope to [...]

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Well, kind of. My blog and other sites were offline for a couple of days because I was supposed to do something technical and waited until the last possible moment. Now the posts on the homepage are from May and I don’t know where this will get posted but one good thing happened.The font size [...]

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My poor dog finally had to go down. As I mentioned before, we knew it was a matter of time. Luckily, the kids were all out of the house when it happened. He took a turn for the worse rather suddenly, and went off by himself as animals do. We found him though. Of course [...]

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What’s the big deal with shaving? As a woman who doesn’t like getting brush burned when kissing someone, I will never understand why it is cool to have a scruffy beard. My son will put off shaving for days (weeks?) on end. After getting the promise for the last three nights that he will shave [...]

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