Motherwise Cracks

SIDEBAR: Or “dunh”, the word my son texts for done because he says that it is shorter. I am paying big bucks for college and four words equals four words any way you write it, but I digress… Thanks to the wonder of the Internet, I have completed all my Christmas shopping. The only thing [...]

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People from Buffalo are the best sports in the world. You have heard that practice makes perfect? Yes, have had the most practice (at losing). It doesn’t seem to matter, because we still love our sports. And we are good sports, too. I sometime wonder that if we began to win, would we know what [...]

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So why the heck do I bother with a garden if it means I don’t get the fruits of my husband’s labor? He worked very hard to grow such a nice garden and, sure I got some tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, corn and eggplant out of the deal, but why no squash? At first I thought [...]

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My friend asked me to go with her to the Metropolitan Cooking Show in Washington DC this past weekend and I got a dream job – handing out tons and tons of fudge. (And I didn’t drool on any of it.) While there were a ton of folks who attended, my highlight was making a [...]

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I thought my Halloween costume making days were over but much to my surprise, I was called into action for my creative abilities. I helped make by daughter look like a bottle of citrus scented bodywash because she and her cousins were going to a party as a complete line of shower products. Yes, I [...]

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Since some relatives are coming, I guess it’s time to clean the upstairs. The kids are all gone so it has a life of its own going on up there, mostly in the form of dust kittens, spiders and at the present time, 15 gallons of wine-to-be that is fermenting. (See previous post.) I discovered [...]

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Just when I get all motivated to drop some more weight there comes a season of something. There always seems to be a reason for a special meal or a party. It is football season and if you go to games in Buffalo that means tailgating. And that means calories. There is also a basic [...]

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Funny how things seem to run in parallel tracks and all of a sudden, a few people in my life are making decisions and I guess I am the big ear. Sometimes it’s hard to know when to move on or which path to take and I am probably better than talking to yourself. (I [...]

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