Like when you forget to shake out your bath towel, and find daddy longlegs stuck to your damp bare skin. Then you try to peel them off and they leave their still-kicking legs behind.
Coffee is a much easier way to wake up in the morning, but dismembered bugs work faster.
If you’re new here, you may [...]
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If my eyeballs are only an inch from my brain, why do they have a mind of their own?
Yesterday was a wonderful, stupendous, spectacular day - but I fought tears all day for foolish, inconsequential reasons.
I woke up this morning with more tears of ovarian guilt, afraid I had ruined everyone else’s day, and expecting [...]
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This is one of family stories, and it’s high time I share it with the rest of the world. That way if I ever refer to the Great Poop Flood, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
My husband and I had planned to spend Thanksgiving of ‘99 with my in-laws who lived 2 states away, but [...]
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I hate hormones. Well, not entirely. They certainly keep life interesting, but I hate it when I feel like I’m at their mercy - for instance, the 6 weeks months years after giving birth.
Last week, I almost missed breakfast. The kids and I were getting ready to leave the house one morning and they misunderstood when I told [...]
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Let’s start with a definition.
ovarian guilt [noun] : the state of feeling guilt and/or a sense of personal responsibility over circumstances outside of one’s control; ovarian guilt is universally experienced by mothers, often when their immediate or extended family undergo hardship or emotional distress.
I mentioned in my post about the Talent Show that I am [...]
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Try accidentally deleting your church’s entire website. Two weeks before the annual conference/talent show. If your husband is the very understanding type, he just might bring home an unprecedented amount of chocolate to soften the blow. Of course, I still have to finish rebuilding the site.
And I had been joking about giving birth onstage as [...]
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Texas Rat Snakes are nonvenomous but very aggressive. At nearly 4 feet long, this guy was big enough to do real damage to little feet and legs, yet just small enough to find several convenient ways into our unfinished house in search of fragrant gerbils, so we decided to knock him off the side of [...]
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The garbage collector comes on Tuesday mornings so every Monday is time to bag up the week’s worth of trash. Today, I gave the girls explicit instructions to include a forgotten 32 gallon can that was languishing apart from the others. I warned them that they might find horrible things since they had [...]
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On Monday, there was a nightmarish odor in my house. It had been creeping up on us for a couple of days and I was pretty sure I knew the origin, so we buckled down and tackled it.
It seemed much better after our work; there was some lingering, but that’s to be expected, right? [...]
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This week is going to be another whirlwind. Here’s what we have had planned:
Monday: Midwife appointment; get the house cleaned and laundry entirely caught up for tomorrow.
Tueday: Pack for upcoming homeschool conference in Oklahoma City. We’ll be doing the Vision Forum booth!
Wendesday: Leave for OKC first thing in the morning. Try to leave a clean [...]
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I love coffee and it does terrible things to me. It gives me low blood pressure. Yes, low. People look at me like I have a [insert crazy item here] growing out of my [insert body part here] when I say that, so I’ll explain. Here’s how it happens:
My blood pressure runs [...]
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Oops. Maybe “happily ever after” was a poor choice of words in my last post. Yesterday was not an entirely happy day.
Yesterday at the produce terminal, while doing the produce thing, I hurt my back. Not in an “ow” kind of way, but in a “keep calm; don’t pass out on the concrete” kind of [...]
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After months of managing the Frugal Blogroll and following Crystal’s Money Saving Moms, I finally decided to jump on the CVS/Walgreen’s Super Shopper bandwagon. I had heard enough of people spending fourteen cents on $76 worth of toiletries and getting another $45 in rebates. With 10 people in our house we could really [...]
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You don’t want to know what is loose in my house. After nearly a year of domestication and good hearty eating, shedding her skin twice because she has grown so much, she escaped. Saturday. She is highly sedentary, and she has an expected lifespan of up to 30 years. She could [...]
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I could easily sink into whining this morning.
I was awakened several times during the night by a hurling child.
As I lay in bed early this morning nursing The Boy, he hurled on me and my freshly laundered sheets.
I got out of bed and went to the bathroom, where I trod upon daddy longlegs with every [...]
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