Motherwise Cracks

Sometimes I decide not to look forward to an event because it might not turn out as well as I had imagined that it would. Such was the case with the wine tour we were going on last weekend for my daughter’ s birthday. Her sister had it all set up and they even let [...]

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Free samples. Never met one I didn’t like. As all good advertisers know, the word free sets off an  internal human magnet that is uncontrollable. Free food samples at Sam’s Club are my favorites, especially when the old ladies are working the free sample table. Between their poor eyesight and dementia, it’s about 60 second [...]

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Usually, at about the end of February or the start of March, those of us in colder climes start to get sick of winter. Today I woke up to a veritable Winter Wonderland outside so it was really hard to not find it beautiful. A thick coating of soft snow was piled up on the [...]

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It’s two days and counting until I will be back to an empty nest.
As I sit here on a Friday night at 11:20 PM with my hot date asleep since 9 PM on the easy chair across from me, I contemplate how this exciting pace of life will slow down when my son returns to [...]

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The kids are back to work or college, the Saints beat the Patriots and a light coating of snow has fallen across the land  for the first time this winter.
Last night we went to help put up my daughter’s outdoor Christmas lights so at least I saw one of the kids to help get me [...]

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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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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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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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