Motherwise Cracks

It’s time for the annual family camping outing and that means that everyone expects something fun and different when it’s our turn. I mean “our turn” because there are six families that camp and we get one night of the week to prepare dinner for all 34 of us. The rest of the nights we [...]

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Rain is in the forecast for Sunday. Yep, that would be the day that we have invited 200 people over to the house for a party. Now the debate about getting a tent seems moot. So I am getting ready for this party, baking something, and I just happen to mention to my husband that [...]

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My kids absolutely hate that I blog. It is a very sore subject and after they read something they don’t like, always promise to never read it again. Until the next time they read it and the bellyaching starts all over again. I wrote an article about Facebook in the Buffalo paper that was published [...]

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After one too many times of being abused, over-worked and under appreciated, it was time for replacement. No, I am not talking about me – I mean our washing machine. I had dreams (before the economic crisis) of having a set of those new-fangled lovely front loading models that you can get in colors to [...]

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Since December of 2007, the Motherwise Family Funnies Carnival has enjoyed shedding the limelight on the blog posts of others. Yes, the wit and humor of other parents is given exposure as they share the things that go wrong in their families so that we can all feel better about our own mistakes and foibles [...]

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Turns out that this Christmas might be the season of drama. In addition to the breakup of one of my kids that has upset her so much that now she is not able to eat more than a mouse (which has NEVER happened to me), someone broke into my mother-in-law’s house and took her pain [...]

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Hey you all, the November Family Funnies are now up and ready for reading. Stop by for great collection of fun reads right here. If you haven’t submitted yet, I am doing a December Family Funnies Carnival so you are in luck. Go to the submission section on the right sidebar of this blog. Thanks!

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Yep, it’s that magical time – Family Funnies carnival time. You HAVE to go to the first post and watch this YouTube video. It is without words but will make you chuckle and fill you with wonder. It was really great – so go! Enjoy!

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