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January 31, 2008: Twelve years too late!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Ponder
In keeping with our little school theme here, I got an email the other day from a girl I knew for all of one year of high school. Apparently she found my brother's MySpace page, got my email address from...

January 30, 2008: More thoughts on school
Comments: 4 | Categories: Ponder
Like I told my mother last night, "Sometimes you ask the internet what is wrong with your screaming barfing baby, even though you kind of already know the answer and the comments aren't that helpful. But SOMETIMES you ask the...

January 29, 2008: Mean nuns and rulers
Comments: 25 | Categories: Family
Is it Catholic Schools Week or whatever in your part of the country? This past Sunday we were treated to an extra thirty minutes of blah blah blah because we were honoring the Distinguished Alumni from our parish school. A...

January 28, 2008: Nothing to see here, stop by tomorrow
Comments: 6 | Categories: Rants
I swear I had a million things to say today. I have erased, in this order, posts regarding 1) Catholic School 2) Why grown ups don't act like grown ups ie: is that 45-year-old woman I know smoking pot on...

January 24, 2008: Grossest post you'll find on this website
Comments: 9 | Categories: Tending to the prince
Last night my child barfed up his entire dinner. (Oh wait. If you are not into things like children barfing up their pureed chicken and vegetable dinners, you can go read about my extreme lack of effort in the appearances...

January 23, 2008: The internet IS my therapist!
Comments: 8 | Categories: This Mom thing
I will have you all know that I had a great day yesterday. A FANTABULOUS DAY. I wrote that post in the middle of doing many things. Napping, eating, playing, crawling. And going out to coffee with a friend and...

January 22, 2008: Long, angsty, introspective and HELLO, SAVE IT FOR THE THERAPIST
Comments: 17 | Categories: This Mom thing
So I've been thinking about why Doing Stuff With A Baby has been freaking me out so much lately. It started a few months ago when I felt overwhelmed by my involvement in three moms groups. I officially dropped out...

January 21, 2008: Thank you, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Comments: 7 | Categories: Places
Our little family just returned from Chinatown where we honored Dr. King by eating heaps of steamed buns and shrimp dumplings and Guy Lawn (gai lan? stir fried rice noodles with beef) and broccoli beef (CHINESE broccoli which is 100x...

January 18, 2008: In which I need someone to smack me around a little
Comments: 14 | Categories: This Mom thing
Phillip just left for work. I just put J down for a nap. Phillip has one of his big Updating Servers Something Or Other tonight and I'll be lucky if he's home by midnight. I saved this week's episode of...

January 16, 2008: Enrolling myself in Architect School
Comments: 11 | Categories: House
Who here is sick of the baby posts? ME TOO! Let's talk about how much I hate my bathroom. Shall we? Here it is. The hateful Who Designed This Bathroom Anyway? Chimpanzees? bathroom courtesy of my mad rad Paint skillz....

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