Motherwise Cracks

I haven’t decided. Just like I haven’t decided if I am going to give up my high fat Greek yogurt or not. My daughter and I have a competition to each lose 10 lbs. before Dec. 16. She would then be at her goal weight and I would be, let’s just say, closer to mine. I [...]

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Sometimes you just can’t make these things up. Like this story in last night’s paper where a man in a cow costume drove nto the river (after some partying). I had to laugh several times as it was just a comedy of errors complete with the video surveillance copy of his drive into the drink accidentally erased. [...]

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Finally watched the Netflix movie that’s been cluttering up my counter top for the past three weeks, Twelve Angry Men. I can tell it’s a good movie when we don’t fall asleep after the first ten minutes. So far, the oldies have been the goodies. Henry Fonda was really good, of course, but the other jurors [...]

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Yep and it wasn’t pretty. Sure, just when I decide to kiss my girlfriend’s baby on both cheeks, I get the flu. I spent half of my fever-induced stupor hoping I didn’t pass it along and wanting to research the incubation period so that if it passed, I could let let my guilty feelings go, [...]

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The recent happenings in regards to “zero tolerance” and kids with Boy Scout equipment reminded me of one of the more stupid things I had to endure with a elementary school principal who shouldn’t have had a job that required thought. My son was really into robots and took things from around the house to [...]

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On Sunday, we ended up at the Bills game inside in one of the boxed sections. The view was great but the game was terrible. The score? 6 to 3 – and no, it was not a baseball game. The weird thing is that I missed hearing the crowd noises – it’s pretty subdued inside the [...]

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Continuing in the tradition of not watching much of the garbage that is on TV, (yes, I am one of those mean parents that limited their children’s viewing) I don’t watch much. But when I do, I find that RTV is my new best buddy. Magnum PI and Rockford Files live. Yes, if you have forgotten [...]

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Can I rant for a moment or two? Sure I can, it’s my blog. Here’s one for all you young girls out there who are confused about what rape is, especially since some grown women with a view seem to think that there is rape and then there is “rape, rape”. Rape, rape? What the [...]

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