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Dirt

One of the women’s olympic swimmers competed first in 1984.  I watched those olympics.  I told my girls that I watched those olympics.  Abby replied, “But they didn’t have TV a long time ago.  You couldn’t have watched it.”
I guess that makes me old :)

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Sistren

The girls were being cute for me at the school playground.

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That Would Be MY Daughter

Abby, “Mom, are there still pirates?”
Jessica, “Yes, I guess there still are.”
Abby, “I want to be a pirate when I grow up.”
Jessica, “You probably don’t want to be a pirate, that’s illegal.”
Abby, “What does illegal mean?”
Jessica, “It means that if they catch you, you will go to jail.”
Abby, “Oh.  I don’t want to be a [...]

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My Best Fan

This evening, over far too many minutes, I installed a ceiling fan in Evie’s room.  I had to install a support rod with complementary electrical box first.  Insulation fell all over me - I itched then, I’m itching now.  I somehow missed one of the steps in the installation and had to back track to [...]

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My Children are Insane with a Capital N

Warning: this post contains lots of non sequiturs, I’m tired, and non sequiturs make me chuckle when I’m tired.  I’d ask if you follow what I”m saying except that that’s what a non sequitur is.  Elephants wander through the African planes and such.
Both girls have been in a mild to extreme melt-down mode since coming [...]

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