Motherwise Cracks

Yes, the start of football season and the prayers are offered up by mom’s afraid of hospital visits all over the country. I have felt your pain. And I see your increased traffic to my blog post “The Cowardly Mom’s Football Prayer“. Here it is but you can click the link and download a very [...]

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I just returned from a reunion trip to New York City to see my college roommate and a friend. We had a great time and walked miles even in the 90 something degree heat. That’s one place I wouldn’t want to drive. A taxi ride is like exercise-it made me sweat. I thought teaching my [...]

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Found this while rummaging through a drawer. It was from a simpler time when I didn’t need to know geometry or physics to help with homework. I had no excuse for not helping. Now will be laminating this and a few other notes I found but I don’t know exactly why I do such things. [...]

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Well, the smart folks at BlogHer chose my question for one of their postings right here and you can give your opinion and end up with an extra $100. Take look and give your opinion and reinforce what a good choice they made by choosing my question for discussion. And by the way, I think [...]

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This weekend saw the girls’ old doll house sitting a top of the burn pile ready for the next bonfire. I admit that I cried when I saw it in the burn pile and today, my eldest, on her dog walk, saw it and it brought her to tears as well. What the hell is [...]

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You may recall reading about my big summer purchase that was a big hit on the water. It lasted two years and was great fun but alas, the seams split (that’s a reoccurring theme of late) and it died. Well, this past Christamas season, when summer items are on sale, I ventured out online and [...]

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I started out feeling a bit proud of my husband. He actually recognized that is winter coat was getting older and shabby looking, and donated it to a charity shop. Sidebar – Some of you may not know that some (and I mean most) men aren’t always as perceptive about their clothing. “Some” of them [...]

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I Made pizza from hell for dinner. I had to because we we so short on groceries that it was that or peanut butter sandwiches on rye crackers. It suffered from one or two ingredient substitutions too many. I am the creative type and have a strong stomach. I found out that if you use [...]

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