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It is always a sad day when the baby reaches the combined milestones of being able to stand without holding on (leaving BOTH hands free!) and being tall enough to see into the trash can.
The tragedy is multiplied when we’ve had rice for dinner and floor’s already been swept.
2.
About birth stories. Why are we as moms afraid to be real with it? Oftentimes, either the messy parts are glossed over, or else the scare factor is unnecessarily amped up. Bethany writes hers and it’s very good. I know exactly what she’s talking about!
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This weekend I’m going to my first homeschool conference! We’ve been homeschooling for all but one year since 2003, but I’ve never been able to go before. I’m excited to see Danielle Bean speak and meet some other moms!
4.
I am a little red faced to slink into the conference tonight. First I couldn’t get the form to print, so I wrote it out by hand and added a note to it. Then, the registration form arrived sans check. I have no idea what happened to the check. I remember writing it.
One of the girls probably absconded with it, or else it’s under the couch.
5.
The CEO of Chase testified before Congress, and boldly stated that his customers can always come to him with their problems if the bank employees aren’t helpful enough. FIFTY angry mortgage holders stood up, and he ran away with his tail between his legs.
This made me snort with derision. Apprarently, yes, people actually do snort with derision. It was so… literary.
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I’ve been busy this week setting up a forum for my homeschool group. I didn’t know I could do that, but the learning curve wasn’t too steep. Amazing.
How about you? I’ve been trying this BlogFrog thing out, but I’m not sure if I like it. Do you prefer e-loops, forums, BlogFrog, or some other way of connecting in cyberspace?
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So I’ve been reading around the blogosphere and despairing. I’m not even close to as funny as many are. My site isn’t a gently respite of loveliness, as many are. Homemaking tips? Erk. Maybe if your homemaking skills are more I Love Lucy than Martha Stewart. I was looking at the places on Twitter where I’m listed – I’m under writers, foodies, moms, Catholics, and even Real Americans (just like G. I. Joe! Go me.) It seems I don’t slip into any easy genre or pigeonhole.
Why do we spend our whole lives trying to fit in, instead of being ourselves?
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You know… I’m the kind of housekeeper who assigns the cat to clean up spilled milk.
I won’t ever win the prize for homemaker of the year either. I just read a ldy’s blog post where she said she had so many crumbs in her kitchen floor she had to go put on flip flops. Tha made me LOL. Mine’s not that bad but it could be me on any given day.
As for your blog, you have your own domain name. You created a website for your blog from nothing. I use blogspot because it is easy (insert widget here) and it is free. I used a template to make mine and it will never have hundreds of loyal followers but I am liking it all of a sudden. It’s fun. I don’t ever want to make money off of it though, I don’t want ads on mine.
I will never really fit in. I have never tried to. I embrace my weirdness. I acknowledge my weirdness.
But I like your blog and I am glad you don’t try to be Martha Stewart because those blogs are boring.
Found my way over here by way of Conversion Diary. #1 — I was just bemoaning rice on the floor last night and wondering how an infant could possibly get so much rice everywhere and why-don’t-they-make-a-special-rice-picker-upper? I was tempted to wait til it dried and then just vacuum it up but had the same sentiments mentioned in the above comment. And I don’t seem to own any flips flops at the moment…
Your last sentence hit the nail on the conundrum of my life. Don’t know why. I have to remind myself, daily, when I wonder why I don’t seem to fit anywhere, that there is some reason I am me. Thanks for some great takes.
They do make a rice picker upper. Bare feet.
Martha Stewart is SO impractical for real families though Lisa. Really? What mom (of even one?) honestly has time to spend eight hours perfecting the art of folding a cloth (!) napkin into a swan for her dinner party? Martha Stewart is well and good for single/childless women with excess money and time on their hands, but those are (fortunately imho) in the minority. Even the “Semi-Homemade (Semisober) with Sandra Lee isn’t exactly doable. I tried it, when I had ONE other person to feed, and that person a (presumably) capable and (presumably) helpful adult to help with the dishes. Just. Not. Possible. (Unless your favorite hour is cocktail hour)(lol)\
And my humor is the same as yours. So I think you’re funny. So ha.
Don’t get me started on Sandra Lee! I don’t know who tests her recipes, but her no-bake cake was SOMETHING ELSE (it was two bakery cakes stacked on top of each other.) ROFL!