Freak Parade

So we think The Girl may have chicken pox. A very mild case, but still enough to send her brother off the deep end. Any hint of illness at our house just freaks him the hell out. I considered not even mentioning it to him, but I needed to deposit her somewhere today while […]

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Um, yeah. So, hi! Long time no blog. I didn’t die or anything dramatic like that. Just took a bit of a hiatus. I’m not entirely sure what prompted it. I took a bit of time off after my entry about getting older was quoted on another blog and picked apart by a bunch of […]

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The Boy has been trying a lot lately to work out an understanding of what it means to be “cool.” On the one hand, because of his Asperger’s, this is a good thing. The fact that he realizes that others will form an opinion about him, and that he cares (sometimes) what that opinion […]

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Why no, I do not have a bazillion things I need to be getting done right this very minute. Not at all. Spending an hour making a completely ridiculous video was an excellent use of my time. Excellent. Click and see for yourself. I have to warn you though…it is three minutes of your life […]

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Apparently, this is how The Girl plays Barbie.

Look at Wendy Waters watching in the background. Creepy.

Okay, aside from the fact that Barbie is on the john….is that the ugliest outfit you have ever seen or what? It’s like some kind of 80’s flight attendant outfit.

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So about nine million years ago, The Boy and I squared off on the issue of his messy room. You all voted and gave very well thought out suggestions. All big improvements on my approach to dealing with his pig sty of a room, which was banging my head against the wall and muttering […]

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“I want to spend time with family and friends, even if they sometimes drive me crazy. Really crazy…..”
Scratch that, Santa.
Make that…I would like to spend time with some members of my family. The rest are crazy. Crazy. As well as frustratingly passive-aggressive, but whatever. Merry Christmas, indeed. Hrmph.
So, I just don’t get the whole passive-aggressive, […]

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Thanksgiving is over. I have stuffed myself with good food…and restuffed (and restuffed, and restuffed) myself with leftovers. As the calendar gets ready to flip to December, I am busying myself…by programming my DVR to record all varieties of cheesy Christmas movies. Don’t ask me why, but I am a sucker for the mushy, fluff […]

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So…The Girl is now a yellow belt. Woo hoo! As you saw in the video, she broke her board on her first try. She was one of only 3 to break her board with only one kick (Not that I was counting or anything. Ahem.)
Aside from a bright (and very stiff) new yellow belt, she […]

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The Issue:
As long as kids have had rooms, a battle has been raging. Parents versus kids. Parents want kids’ rooms to be clean (or at least not a health hazard). Kids want the right to keep their space how they want it (to wallow in their own filth). Will a peace treaty ever be […]

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