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Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Friday, October 5, 2012

Quick & Easy Crafts --- No Such Thing!

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DIY disasters|How to make candy melt lollipops|Marshmallow Alien Pops|Ballet Slipper Cookies|Cream Cheese Frosting|Do It Yourself Craft ...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Peach or Orange?

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Special Needs|Learning Styles  Parenting a Special Needs Child A bit of a cheat - Written when Amanda was only 2 years old... The oth...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Not your average party...the Divorce Party

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Divorce Party Divorce Party I'm in NO WAY celebrating divorce. Personally, I have been happily married for well over 2 decades. Howe...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Ladies Clubs, Aid Societies and other Niceties

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Ladies' Club|Women's Club Ladies Clubs, Aid Societies...and anachronisms Even after 15 years in The South I’m still an outsider ...
Monday, January 2, 2012

DDIY - I Didn't Do It! I'm not handy either...

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PVC Dip Stand|How To Build Your Own Last year I naively suggested to Kevin that we make each other gifts instead of buying them. We are f...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Re-gifting We Shall Go...

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(To be sung to the tune of Jingle Bells...) Re-gifting we shall go, picking through our stash- what can we give away from this pile of ...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

My Evil Twin

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Every daytime drama or sitcom uses the plot device at least once - the evil twin . I know I have one. Or at least a decidedly evil side. ...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Wallpapering War Stories

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or as a friend subtitled it, "The Glue always wins." When we were looking for a house I kept describing this as "the house...
Monday, August 1, 2011

If the Shoe Fits...

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I saw my first pair of Manolo Blahniks yesterday. They were casually tossed just inside the door of my sister-in-law's million dollar h...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Pick up the Pieces and Go Home

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Parenting philosophies can be extremely divisive. I once had neighbors who had opposing stands on parenting and, consequently, detested eac...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

I am NOT a Housewife

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 My Mom,  quintessential 1950s I'm not a housewife. I married a man, not a house. Good thing, too, since I've been throug...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The Assessor Only Rings Once…

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Or, Scoop & Hide: the Second Installment of My Saga of Domestic Ineptitude Honestly, I didn’t expect to be writing this so soon aft...
Monday, June 27, 2011

I Hate to Iron

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The First installment of My Saga of Domestic Ineptitude Some of my friends grew up at the knees of domestic divas, the unsung Martha Ste...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

I'm Special, too!

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"I'm Special, too!" Danielle yelled the other day. It turns out that when we euphemistically refer to Amanda as having ...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Compliments I could have lived without...

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" You look good for your age ."  Were those last three words really necessary? " That shirt  looks nice - have you lost w...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Evasions, Fabrications and Polite Fictions

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" Can you do me a favor ?"  My mother taught me to answer, "Probably - what do you need?" Her theory was that you did...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Dreaded Skirted Bathing Suit

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Today I considered joining our neighborhood "country club". It's not large or prestigious, but it has a pool and a small fitn...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

DDIY ~ Don’t Do It Yourself

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Hon, You are a smart man. You are a strong man. You are a handsome man. You aren’t a handyman. Hire someone else to d...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Full Hair and Makeup

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For 14 years, almost a third of my life now, I've lived in "The South". And down here it is clearly still capitalized, as if ...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Well, hello there,

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Hi. For years I've thought I was in a unique postion. I thought I was more or less alone to handle all that life has thrown at me. Now...