Happy Thanksgiving!

May your day be already full of great company, good laughs, and fabulous food.  I am now going to leave my marvelous new computer behind and wrassle with some sweet potatoes, get the stuffing started and then roust some kids to come and set the table.  It’s going to be a wonderful day for us [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

1. My darling and dearest husband knows how I have suffered these past 4 days with no computer to call my own and is as I type this, on his way home in his Prius with a new computer for me. I shall think long on how to reward him suitably. I am certain he [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday – Monkey’s Poem

1. Ahhh, coffee.  I stumble, bleary eyed, to darling husband who hands me a cup.  Our day wouldn’t be right without our coffee on the couch commune every morning. And when I say coffee, I mean black, strong and intense.
2. Yesterday, I faced up to something I had been avoiding – funny, things don’t just [...]

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Mondy and I have no voice

I pretty much croak.
Which is nominally acceptable in a frog, but not so much with a human.
Over my visit with my kids last weekend, my eldest daughter lovingly shared her nasty germies, which subsequently besieged my immune system and had me on my ass most of Saturday and Sunday. There were perks – I slept [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: Dealing with Difficult People

I recently spent some time with someone I love very much and with whom I have common ground of a shared history, shared love for a variety of things, but also, a tendency to butt heads.
This post is about what I learned from the situation.
1. I can be an 8 year old, with all of [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

1. Boo came back from Orlando last evening at 8:15 and then had to sit and do her put-off math homework (geometry) until 11:20.  She stomped, smashed, yelled, cried and under no circumstances were Bob and I going to let her just blow off her homework to get much-needed rest. I did say I wished [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: Bread of Affliction

Passover ends on Thursday after sundown at which point the matzah, what my daughter contemptuously calls “cardboard,” can be sidelined for just about anything leavened. Boo has requested muffins and pies and will probably do the happy dance of pastry as the sun sets.  Poor kid; such suffering.
1. Seder for 27: FOOD.  This past Saturday [...]

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“Next Year in the White House:” Passover thoughts

That’s  THIS year: President Obama hosted a Seder in the White House last night, the first ever, EVER to occur in that residence. Traditionally, the last thing said at a seder is “Next year in Jerusalem,” but it seems Mr. Obama DID find his promised land.
I found the story to be grin inducing and the [...]

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F-F-F-F-F-F Friday

Fucking floral, frustratingly freaksome financials,  Fenomenal (work with me here) friends Friday.
Ain’t nothing blooming outside, so I jump to the favorites in my archives to make ME happy, to remind me that in times of barren and brown, blooms will come.   Yeah, things are scary right now, and although I know things will be fine [...]

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Breaking it gently

As of yesterday, my husband’s salary is reduced by enough to make us all need to cut to the bone, cancel lessons and services, tv, delay propane delivery, and… we didn’t tell the kids.
Not yet.
Bob came home yesterday craving normalcy. I didn’t know what his plans were – I just assumed he’d get into it [...]

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