Overheard today at Costco

“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo!”
“I’ve been looking for pens all day.”
“They don’t have those spring rolls that I like.”
“You sound like a little man!”
“…goes well with some avocado.”
“What would I do with two of ‘em?”
“It’s just so darn good, I can’t wait for it to thicken up.”
“Daddy, want me to sing a song to you?”
“I tell [...]

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of Easter dresses, and bunnies and posers–not poseurs.

Things That Make Me Happy: unexpectedly finding a friend who has a hand-tame rabbit that I can sit next to Violet for her Easter pictures. Luckily, I also have a friend who has a daughter the same age, so that way we can help each other out with baby and bunny wrangling.
Ideas For a Cute [...]

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in chronological order

Today:
Sleeping in
Leisurely morning
Church
Picking up some homemade meatloaf
Picnic in the park
Visiting with friends
Dinner at my parents house
Shotguns/gravel pits/blowing garbage into tiny bits
In the hot tub with family
Some mango vodka drink with a jalapeno at the bottom
Homemade fudge
Sleepy drive home
Blogging/Facebook/feeding Violet
Bible
Bedtime

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Twitter tweets are for birds

and self-absorbed narcissists. Do you Twitter? Please stop. Everyone, please stop! This media darling needs to be disposed of the old-fashioned way, back before people thought everyone cared about what they ate for lunch or how mad they are at their cable company. The hottest new Twitter phase? Celebrity tweets; because you really do need to know [...]

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Here’s to my day

Here’s to my sibling that wrote “Hi” on my windshield with pieces of tortilla.
Here’s to the man out walking with a walkman and headphones.
Here’s to my daughter who stole her friend’s teething cookie and put the whole thing in her mouth till it dissolved.
Here’s to the little boy at the grocery store that made my [...]

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Great things that come in 4’s

A four leaf clover
The Beatles
The Indiana Jones series
The Gospels
Four horsemen of the Apocalypse
North, South, East, West
Four chambers in a heart
Four seasons of the year
The number of movements in a symphony
Four suits of playing cards
The Fantastic Four
A quartet
Players needed in the game of Foursquare
The Libby brothers.
That’s right–Violet is still the only girl cousin. My sister-in-law had her [...]

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3 Things

1. My sister-in-law is labor right now. So far Violet only has boy cousins, so we are hoping for a girl. C’mon Megan, think pink!
2. I–and by association, Violet–had the greatest sugar/caffeine high ever today. I got a white chocolate mocha at starbucks, and I felt so amazing afterwards that I seriously wonder what drugs they slipped [...]

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random

Violet has a booster seat/highchair now, so she sits at the table with us during dinner. I made her some spinach/banana/rice cereal stuff.  Tonight we all held hands and prayed before the meal; AJ’s big hands, Violet’s tiny chubby hands, and my medium-sized hands. The first of many.
I bought paint today. So excited. The guest bathroom [...]

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play pretend

So I guess most kids experiment with cigarettes in junior high these days. That certainly was true fora couple of my brothers. Of course, keep in mind that we were homeschooled growing up, so their introduction to smoking was really via the private-school boys next door who encouraged the idea of smoking. Don’t freak out Mom, when [...]

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I eat vegetarian…

 animals.
I really like steak. I never buy it at a restaurant any more because I’ve found I can make a much better steak at home–even pan frying it. Personal favorite (right now) is New York Strip. I also love fajitas because they are the best of both worlds–steak and mexican.
Anyway, I have nothing to write about. [...]

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