Just trying to be a Good Mom, sometimes succeeding, sometimes not. But blogging about it anyway.
From the monthly archives:
Sometimes I think I do the world a big disservice by blogging about our life with Pookie. We try to keep a positive attitude, so that is what you get to read. Which means you don’t know how hard it really is. Its alot harder than you could ever imagine. Your perception of it is [...]
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Well, today’s the day. The first day of school. *sigh* They are both gone. So, the morning went fine. Pookie figured out that going to school today meant that he could not stay home and play, so he did (out of the blue) tell me that he was not going today. But as we kept [...]
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My company chooses to celebrate Bring Your Child to Work Day in the Summer, to avoid pulling innocent children out of school just to go and play on the PowerPoint at Mom/Dad’s office. Last week Friday, we held our annual event and this was the first year Geetle and Pookie were old enough to attend. [...]
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I wish I could call in sick to at least one (maybe two?) of my jobs today.
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My husband has started another hobby…but this one might earn us some money and will help the blogging community. If you need help with any of your WordPress blog stuff, he has offered to be your personal code monkey, for a fee. Is he any good? Yeah. I think so. He always gets the job [...]
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The “Thank You” email. Love it or Hate it? Besides my fulltime job as blog author, mother of 3 and all-around awesome example of womanness, I work part time for an insurance company. I prefer email over phone, because everyone in my industry likes a paper trail….its all about the E&O Sarbanes Oxley, baby! So [...]
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We bought those “Back to School Supply Kits” from the school, rather than hunting at walmart, Staples, Osco for the EXACT color folders that the teacher wanted. Geetle’s teacher wanted a red, a green, a yellow and a blue folder, a steno notebook, crayons, glue, markers, a pencil box, scissors, kleenex, paints, and a 3 [...]
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If you are planning a trip to Cincinnati and are looking for ideas for fun things for kids to do in Cincinnati, please check out my posts on the subject. We had a great time in Cincinnati and did not even manage to hit all the hotspots. Cincinnati also has a Children’s museum, a history [...]
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i had fun
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Today we left for home! 6-8 hour drive, but we decided that was a piece of cake, so we added a side trip into Peoria to see Great Grandma and take her out to dinner at Applebee’s. First we said goodbye to Papaw, who we left in Cincinnati. (We took Mamaw home with us for [...]
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