The Last Laugh

When I got Shaun a zillion years ago, he came with snakes.  (It was one of those package deals…I came with cats).  In a moment of weakness, my Mom let it slip that the whole idea of keeping snakes was horrifying to her.  It seemed that my plucky mother was afraid of snakes. Naturally, Shaun [...]

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Coffee Cup Battles

“Mom, what is this doing on my window seat?” KT asked with the complete disdain that only a teenager can wield.  She was holding one of my old coffee mugs and wrinkling her nose at the cold coffee inside of it.
I told her that it was probably her grandmother’s.  KT just shook her head and [...]

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A Christmas To Remember

On Thursday night, as we were preparing to spend our eighth night without power, the lights came back.  And the heat…the wonderful heat!  Thanks so much to all those hardworking crews at Puget Sound Energy, as well as all the other utility crews that came pouring in from states as far away as Kansas.   We just [...]

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This has been interesting…

I had a whole list of things I had planned to write about, but I can’t for the life of me think of what they were.  So, I’ll just babble off the top of my head…I’m pretty good at that! 
We are kicking ourselves for deciding that we didn’t really need a generator as the power always comes back on [...]

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The Weather Outside is Frightful

We are having yet another one of our very un-Seattle like storms.  I knew it was going to be a bad one when I heard on the car radio that most of the school districts had cancelled all afternoon activities and were sending the kids home as fast as they safely could.  The rain started [...]

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Fifteen Years Ago Today

 
When I first became pregnant with KT, I realized for the first time just how very different Shaun and I were.  He was adamant that we do everything in the most up-to-date scientific way that was possible. He knew that we would be doing every test, every procedure, we would utilize everything modern thing available…only [...]

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How Weird is That?

I’ve been double tagged by both Peggy and Kell so I guess I’d better play.  I’m supposed to list six things that are weird about myself.  Hmmmm….it’s a bit harder to do than I thought it would be.  I asked my family what they thought was weird about me…interestingly they couldn’t come up with anything.  [...]

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The Stew Maestro

It’s a well known fact that if you want a good meal in our house, Shaun has to be the one to prepare it.  (Although Mimi has a lot of potential)  Unfortunately for my children, I’m the one who prepares most of our food.  So it is a real treat when Daddy cooks  us something [...]

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Ouch!

A week or so ago, I had finally decided to finish my floors that I started…oh…um…not too long ago…and discovered that I didn’t have enough flooring left.  I found, to my horror that nobody seemed to carry my particular brand any more.  By chance, I found someone that had some they wanted to get rid [...]

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One down…one to go

This weekend we celebrated Mimi’s birthday with a slumber party.  Mimi (and probably most of her friends) would have been perfectly happy with pizza and a pile of DVDs, but KT didn’t consider that a proper party.  She insisted that we make is special.  (I wonder where she got that from?)
 Because of being house bound [...]

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