Category Archives: Healthy Family

Healthcare Reform, Green Acres-style

Posted on April 26, 2010 by admin

I would like to thank Sue Lowden, Senate-candidate from Nevada, for the most rollicking laughter I have experienced in quite some time. Just when I thought the Right couldn’t get any funnier, the resourceful Ms. Lowden has proposed a barter … Continue reading →

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One Person’s Pain is Another Person’s Problem

Posted on January 30, 2010 by admin

Not. I generally despise television advertisements, especially the ones aimed at women or their children.  We all know that children are rather suggestible; my son wants a blanket with sleeves and my daughter wants some of those wonderful hanger thingys. … Continue reading →

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A Year

Posted on October 12, 2009 by admin

Sunday marked the one year anniversary of the House of the Burning Prairie housefire. Can I please have a boring year now?

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Fear

Posted on August 31, 2009 by admin

Sunday officially kicked my butt. Yesterday didn’t just beat me up–it punched me right in the kisser, held me down, and took my lunch money. Sunday had help. Friday softened me up for the kill with a little help from … Continue reading →

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Well, I Panicked

Posted on July 2, 2009 by admin

We have never been coy and evasive about biology in this House. I don’t scream and shamefully cover myself when one of the kids walks in on me in the bathroom (which is pretty much all the time). In fact, … Continue reading →

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Incidents

Posted on March 31, 2009 by admin

Baby oil removes “permanent” marker marks from skin. How did I come to acquire this little tidbit of knowledge, you may ask? Because I have a 3, soon to be 4, year old, that’s how. Yesterday morning, Pumpkin somehow managed … Continue reading →

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I’m Really Serious This Time

Posted on January 24, 2009 by admin

OK, I guess I need to get this toddler potty-trained. She starts Pre-K in the fall and they won’t take her if she’s not potty-trained. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am putting out the call to all parents, especially anyone who has been … Continue reading →

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Fire-The Aftermath

Posted on October 23, 2008 by admin

Work is going forward on our House, hopefully we’ll be out of Hotel of the Burning Prairie by Halloween. It’s not bad, really, just a little cramped for two active kids; and the fold-out bed I’m sleeping on is killing … Continue reading →

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Time Out!

Posted on October 7, 2008 by admin

As all of you know, I am a mom of two beautiful and frustrating children. Sometimes they drive me nuts (and it’s a short drive), sometimes they make me laugh, and all of the time they make me ache with … Continue reading →

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What is Wrong With The Right?

Posted on September 29, 2008 by admin

I was planning a scathing post on the epic fail that is the choice of Sarah Palin as Republican VP nominee, but after seeing that woefully unprepared, out-of-her-depth interview with Katie Couric I just can’t do it. Not right now … Continue reading →

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