Soapbox Moment

You know those little Valentines conversation hearts? How did they ever get to be so lame? Case in point: “U R Mine”, ”You Rule”, or “Email Me.” I even saw some like “Forget It” or “No Way!”
Dear Maker of Valentines Day Conversation Hearts,
Why are you so afraid of becoming irrelevant, that you insist on using “trendy” [...]

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You’re Just Jealous

For some people it’s a boring book…for others its the routine. Still others rely on a cup of hot tea, or those last few minutes of pillow talk. For Violet, it’s butt rubs. Yes, as in a massage on the buttocks. Every night, after a moment or two of obligatory fussing to let us know she [...]

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Poor Pitiful Me

So I went to the dentist again today. Halfway through the procedure, I was thinking about how pathetic I felt and how pitiful I must look. Poor me, right? I was just thinking that I hoped the dentist thought I looked pitiful too, but if he did, he wasn’t showing any sign of it. And then [...]

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I probably should have stopped her…

but she was having so much fun!
Today Violet ate a piece of tulle–otherwise known as the kind of fabric used in wedding veils. It was a smallish piece that she stuffed in her mouth before I could catch her, and she had quite a time swallowing it but I was pretty sure she couldn’t choke [...]

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I think the tooth fairy skipped our house…

Violet still has no teeth. nada.
New Rule (for everyone): Just Because the Carpool Lane is Not the Other Other Fast Lane, Doesn’t Mean it’s the Other Other Slow Lane.  I’m just saying.
You ever think up new things and wish you could make your ideas a reality? Like flying cars, for instance. Mine? Fart Bells. Thats right, [...]

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Gross personal habits

not that I have any, but as I was sitting here playing with my “abc” gum waiting to use the computer, I realized that I probably do–I’m just not aware of them. Seriously though, I just realized that every time (almost) I chew gum, I take it out of my mouth to throw it away, [...]

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Sunday is a fun day for playing in the sun day

except that it rained as soon as we got out of church.
anyway. After church was over, AJ and I were planning on going out to lunch and wanted to see if any of my siblings wanted to come too. Funny thing–since my parents weren’t there and they would be paying for themselves, they weren’t interested.
side [...]

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Today was the first sunny saturday in way too long…

because there’s a reason Washington stays so green.
Five interesting things about today.
1. Violet hollered with a hot temper when strapped in the car-seat. thats right, she hollered.
2. I watched the cat sit patiently in front of her while she shook with excitement and patted him on the head.
3. AJ bought more vw bug stuff. yes, more.
4. [...]

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Snapshot into my day

Time: 1:30pm
Place: My kitchen
Me: in the middle of making pie crust for my blackberry pie and my peach banana pie. still wearing pj’s.
The counter-tops: covered in mess from pie crust, and melting bags of last summer’s fruit.
Violet: sitting at my feet waiting patiently between spoon-fulls of melting blackberry bits as a bribery so I can [...]

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One if by land, two if by sea…

This fall when the leaves change–that’s where I’ll be. D.C, Philly, and Boston.
We are budget travellers, but we know how to treat ourselves right, so right now we are in the planning stage where we network, pit airlines and hotels against each other, and look up fun places to see. When we went to Europe, [...]

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