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Dear So and So
Dear Pea: Thank you for cooperating and not dawdling or fussing so we could get you to school at such an early hour (for you) to meet the bus (which still wasn’t there 15 minutes later.). Wish every morning could be like today!!!! Love, Mommy * * * * * Dear Mother Nature: Please give our lovely school kids a break and, if you can’t make the sun shine at least give them a break from the rain? They’ve been looking forward to this beach trip all year and for some of them it’s the only time they see the ocean. Love, A Hopeful Mom * * * * *…
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Summer Fete Loot and A Lesson Learned
It’s nice to discover that some of the concepts that you drill via consistent harping instill in your children stick. In the course of our recent move, the playroom underwent a serious purge (the extent of which still has not been realized by my kids. Yes, I AM that mean). The amount of toys they had was ridiculous (a point driven home when a delivery person looked into my playroom and asked if I was a child minder.) Embarrassing. The bottom line delivered to my children was that there was so many toys that there would be NO room for anything new from Santa come Christmas time. They did well…
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When It Is the 4th of July, but Not.
This morning my 7 year old asked me why they didn’t celebrate the 4th of July here in the United Kingdom. We explained that the British weren’t so keen to celebrate the Americans’ independence from THEM. While I have settled in quite nicely here, there are days that I do feel a bit homesick, and today is one of them. Not because I’m fanatically patriotic, but because of how we would have spent the day. And with that, here is a list of the things I didn’t do for Independence Day: I wasn’t sitting on a curb on Main Street trying to keep the kids from getting run over by…
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Silent Sunday
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Dear So and So – In Which I (Mostly) Give Thanks
Dear Macy pup, If you empty out one more of my herb pots into the middle of the garden, I’ll…I’ll…well, I really don’t know what I’ll do to you, but there will definitely be no more belly rubs for you. Love, The lady who walks you, feeds you and spoils you * * * * * Dear Trampoline, I will not be assembling you this time, as my blisters (from taking you down) have finally healed. Please talk to whoever lives in the hedge – if there are any faeries in there, they are hired, because right now, that’s the only way you’re getting put back together again. Love, A…
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The Challenges of Blogging
Reading through this week’s choices of blog prompts for Mama Kat’s Writers Workshop, I had to laugh. #3 read: What do you find most challenging about blogging? Obviously, looking back at my list of recent posts, it is being consistent about posting on a regular basis. Between attending the week-long Hay Festival, held here in town at the start of the month, and moving house two weeks later, I’ve been crap at finishing a coherent post. And putting one up on a regular basis. Moving house has really taken it out of me. I knew the process was going to be stressful but wow, it was way more stressful than…
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My Cybermummy 11 Roundup (or how I got my groove back)
On Sunday night, I cleaned dog poo off of my son’s Crocs. It was a brutal return to reality for me, having just stepped off a train from London where I had spent the weekend attending Cybermummy 11. To say it was overwhelming was an understatement: with over 400 fellow bloggers in attendance, this tongue-tied self-conscious gal really had to step out of her comfort zone. But. Still. I did it. And I learned a lot. I learned that meeting people that you have been tweeting with for ages is easier than you think. And that with some, it is like running into an old friend – you just click.…
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Afterimage
As defined by Wikipedia, an afterimage is an optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one’s vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased. Could it be that all the photos of dildos from @cosmicgirlie’s post-Cybermummy dildo decorating party have damaged been burned permanently onto my brain? I swear, I am seeing them everywhere. I dunno.
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Silent Sunday
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And Away I Go (to Cybermummy!)
Tomorrow morning I’m off to London for the Cybermummy conference. I SHOULD be in bed. I’m not. I’m too excited. I’m also a tad bit nervous. (Ok, a lot.) I’ve been to London on my own. But this is different. This is a blogger conference. I’m going to have to MINGLE. No hiding behind my laptop. (Did I mention I’m far wittier from the safety of my laptop, and with the benefit of the “Delete” key?) I AM really, really excited for the opportunity to meet some of the other bloggers who I stalk follow. I couldn’t make it to BlogHer yet again (I’m keeping my fingers crossed for NEXT…