Freak Parade

It is time for the April blog exchange. I will be here today. Please welcome V from Spells With…
There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about ending it, moving on, starting fresh. There are moments that it feels like it will never be enough. There are times that I feel we […]

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I’m not dead. I have been doing this.
Please stop in to check out April’s blog exchange tomorrow. My guest writer is V from Spells With… Then we will be back to our regularly scheduled program - and I promise to update more frequently. Really.

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Thirteen things that have kept me from freaking out and my head imploding in this lovely stressful week.
1. God.
2. Strawberry Twizzlers. Not the crappy cherry flavor. Strawberry. And they had better be soft.
3. This
4. And this.Oh. My. (Very sad that he died, but man, look at him.)
5. A lovely dream featuring Patrick Dempsey. […]

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As I was tucking my son in bed last night:Son: “Mom, should I be a lawyer or a comedian when I grow up?”Me: “Well, why don’t you be both? A lawyer during the day and a comedian at night?”Son: “Hmmm. Oh yeah…..or maybe I’ll just be a lounge singer.”Me: Blink. Blink. BWAHAHAHA!
Talking on speakerphone to […]

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I’m still here.
Have you ever had a day that you felt like you were living someone else’s life and it creeped you out? The day I am speaking of happened to me last week. It was a day that was so Typical Suburban Mom it made me break out into a rash and start […]

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Thank you to all of you who have asked about my husband’s job interview. He is supposed to hear back the beginning of this week….which I take to mean today or tomorrow, because Wednesday would be mid-week, right? Right? Right?
My kids are mostly over whatever disease they had this time. They both have a […]

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Thirteen things you need to know about Mel so you can die at peace with the world.1. I am addicted to looking at Google Earth with my son. We look at everything. The Great Wall of China, Venice, Manhattan, our old neighborhood…way cool.
2. I gave birth to my daughter with no meds. With my oldest […]

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If you are here from Diary of the Nello, thanks for stopping in. How sweet is Kelly? The blog fodder tees are not available in my online store. They were a first for Kelly. If you would like one, I would be happy to make one for you. They range from $9.99 to $14.99 depending […]

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Okay, so the day arrived where I was forced to share the proper terms for genitalia (cringe, hack) with my daughter.
“Mommy, I have a junk.”
“No, honey, girls don’t have junk. You have a Vah-Gi-Nah. Girls have a Vah-Gi-Nah. Boys have a Peee-Nis.” (Call me a prude, but the technical terms just …well, ewww is all.)
“I […]

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Thirteen reasons I’m ready to move back to CA.
1. I was in traffic school and the talk about road rage made me feel all sentimental.
2. The clean air here is killing me. I need air I can sink my teeth into.
3. I’m not a card carrying member of PETA or anything, but the amount of […]

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