Motherwise Cracks

After six years of blogging, I still get annoyed at spammers. You would think that I would expect it and just shrug it off, but no. Thoughts of cramming large chunks of real Spam down their throats still crosses my mind each time I read some lame-ass comment chocked full of links to porn, gambling, [...]

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This cake bunny continues to satisfy the kids at Easter time and it tasted great but it reminds me of how much kids like tradition. It’s made from two round cakes and you just cut the ears out of one and it makes the bow tie. I learned this simple trick year’s ago in an [...]

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On breaking my eating plan with the likes of a Nutella cupcake. The good news is that I am still down 16. 5 lbs. on the 17 Day Diet, even thought my loss has slowed down a bit of late. Not sure whether that is because I have less to lose now or because of [...]

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While I have been on the 17 Day Diet for a while now (I am in cycle 3) my husband is exhibiting some residual effects. He never had any “back” to start with and now, whatever he had before is gone. So are all the kids, even my son who is home, and I use [...]

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When you don’t eat out at expensive restaurants very much, you can have an under appreciation for your cooking abilities. Start to eat out more and you will find that you do a better job than you thought. And other people notice good food too. One begins to feel wanted, appreciated. This weekend I was [...]

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In a nutshell, it lets us know if our children are still there. If you are lucky, their posts can also give you a clue as to if they partied the past weekend, if they have a love interest, etc. But you have to be careful. There is a trick to this whole thing, however. [...]

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While losing 7 pounds in 13 days would make most people happy, and I am happy, but part of my brain thinks that I should be able to lose 30 pounds in 3 days. Then I stopped to look at how much “bulk” that 7 pounds actually is in fat, like as in butter. When [...]

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A few years ago my brother gave me the book “The Corrections” by Jonathan Franzen to read and he thought it was a great read. I thought quite the opposite. I received some corrections this weekend from my daughter who joyfully pointed out that she found three spelling errors on my blog. I could only [...]

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