• adventures

    A Diva in the Making

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    The school had a Fashion Show for our fall fundraiser. Pea was asked to model. No, correct that she was asked to be “in de Fashion Show”. She came home from school, very excited: “Is dis week de Fashion Show? I’m excited to be in de Fashion Show!!! Mommy…what is a Fashion Show?” Never to take these things lightly, the Headmistress showed the children how to walk, how to turn, then pause and count to five (insert a lot of bobbing heads as they counted to five in their minds), bless her heart. One of the teachers commented all the girls were practicing in the school yard, one hand on…

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    Sock Hell

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    I’m jumping on board Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. One of the prompts for today was to write about socks. (Ok, so it was supposed to be a funny story about socks.) I’m sure it will be, to you. In fact, I’m sure that in about – oh, say – 10 years, it will be to me as well. Right now? Not so much. As you may know by now, Pea is the QUEEN of the tantrum. (She would say “no, I’m the PRINCESS”).Whatever.  The fact of the matter is that on a near daily basis, for the past three months or so, we have had meltdowns of EPIC proportions. Anything could…

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