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All About Maarwee!

by beth January 5, 2012

“Mommy, look it’s Maar­wee!”  she says with a big grin and in her not so quiet five year old voice. “Who honey?” I asked her, as she pointed at the screen with excite­ment. “Maar­wee!!!! Mommy, Maar­wee! She is singing. She’s from Jack’s show {Jack’s Big Music Show}.” I paused. I watched to see the woman on […]

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Define Hair

by beth January 3, 2012

My old­est walked out of the bath­room after show­er­ing and chang­ing.  I stopped what I was doing, cup of cof­fee half way to my mouth, and took a good hard look at him. “Did you wash your hair?” I asked. “Yes. I did.” He was look­ing at me per­plexed by my ques­tion. After all he just got […]

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A Krampus Carol

by beth December 23, 2011

And now we inter­rupt your reg­u­larly sched­uled joy and inno­cence of Christ­mas for some more dis­turb­ing Christ­mas tra­di­tions with A Kram­pus Carol by Anthony Bour­dain. If I had been a kid, like our Holy Father Pope Bene­dict XVI was once, and heard this tale I would have been ter­ri­fied. Full of sheer ter­ror & dread. […]

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Some Cookies

by beth December 23, 2011

The kids wanted to make some Christ­mas cook­ies.  And of course I said yes. Why?  Because I am insane.  That is why. But aren’t they cute? Nut­ter But­ter San­tas & Rein­deers.  With the top­pings that sur­vived hun­gry lit­tle ones who kept try­ing to sneak M&Ms when they thought I wasn’t look­ing.  I think D-man ate about a pound […]

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