Category Archives: Mother of Invention

Incidents

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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Everybody Remain Calm, That’s The Most Important Thing

OK, so everybody can relax now, Poison Control tells me that compact fluorescent light bulbs do not contain toxic levels of mercury. And how might I have come into this information, you may well ask? Sit down, this is going … Continue reading

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Underpants

I have always had a love/hate relationship with undergarments. Bras are fine, I tend to find ones I like and wear them until they fall apart. Underpants always have been, and ever shall remain, the bane of my existence. Don’t … Continue reading

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Time-outs for everyone!

Only I’m not calling them time-outs. It is now Relax Time at the House. Everyone who has spent a whole day, from start to finish, with a child will know exactly what I’m talking about. You know that special time … Continue reading

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It’s a Worm-pocalypse!

We have had rain the last several days, boy howdy have we had rain. The tornado sirens went off in the early hours of Tuesday morning and Monkey couldn’t go back to sleep in his bed so he stayed with … Continue reading

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