Motherwise Cracks

To this day, even though my kids are older, I don’t understand why people spend so much on their children for Christmas gifts. And all this talk of how times are tight and yet, we are off and running at 4 PM on Thanksgiving day to go break the bank. No, I don’t get that. [...]

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I hate to clean about as much as I hate dust, clutter, spots and crumbs. As I still have house guests, I decided to run the vacuum again as they were out this morning, and low and behold, the thing started on fire. My guess is that it certainly wasn’t overheating because of overuse. Ah [...]

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Picked up my son from his job at the ice cream stand last night. So glad that he was able to inform us about the woes of being busy at work. Yes, he as actually tired! There were lots of people wanting to be served. One of his co-workers was snippy and bossy when things [...]

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Today was all about the numbers. Barbie turned 50; my daughter turned 1/2 that; zero checks came in the mail, I got zero paid writing assignments for this week and I worried twice as much as usual. I didn’t bother to check the stock market today. (I already lost 1/2 of my savings anyway.) About [...]

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Well, a couple of years ago, my daugher wrote a paper for kids her age about handling money. She was pretty good at taking care of her finances (even though she owes me money right now) and I thought her book was really well done. So, being into DTP, and having nothing better to do than doat on my budding [...]

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Senior picture day for my son. Back in the day, I decided to go for the relaxed look – it was the 70s. No pearls, no sweater, just a blouse. Today was my last experience with the senior picture and the same woman who took my daughters’ photos presided over my moment to etch permanently [...]

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