Tag: funny
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Hangin’ onto Patience by a Shoestring
As every parent knows, if you want something done properly, you must be very specific about your expectations. Kids will do absolutely anything to get out of doing what you want, even if it means doing something completely wrong just to win the battle. For instance, when I send my 7-year old to take a…
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Friday’s Quips and Quotes
It’s Friday, and I’d like to introduce a new feature here at Chatty Cathie’s Endless Chatter…Quips and Quotes Friday! Each Friday I’ll attempt to bring you the actual quips and quotes that people say to me – or that I overhear – throughout the course of a normal day. So, sit back and relax and…
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Not Me!
Dear Readers: Due to the content of this particular post, the names and locations of the participants have been changed to protect the “innocent.” Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Penelope. She was the 4th of five children, with the youngest being two years younger, and the elder siblings being 10,…
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Everybody Wants to be a Clown
If there’s any one thing I’ve tried to instill in my kids, it’s a sense of humor and the importance of being able to not only take a joke, but to laugh at yourself. I’ve told them repeatedly, “If you can’t learn to laugh at yourself, then you’ll be the only one not laughing while the rest…
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There are “Rules” to Becoming a Domestic Goddess
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. ~ Erma Bombeck Recently I read a blog by a fellow blogger, A Gripping Life, about how she’s a bit obsessive-compulsive about certain things, most notably about cleaning her house. I love reading her blogs, but it wasn’t until I read this particular one that I…
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Quips and Quotes…(1st Edition)
My family and friends are so completely bizarre that I could probably fill an entire book with the goofy things that pop out of their mouths. In most cases, they’re not trying to be funny…they just are funny. For example, just this week my son had a play date with the little boy down the…
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Becoming a Domestic Goddess (Part Two)
Those of you who read my blog on Friday, Becoming a Domestic Goddess (Part One), know that my number one goal as a new wife was to meet and exceed the expectations of not only my husband, but society in general. After the baked potato/knife debacle, things did get better. I bought a gazillion cookbooks…
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Becoming a Domestic Goddess (Part One)
A Note to the Reader: As with all of my blogs, the following story is completely true. While it embarrasses me to admit it, this story is completely unexaggerated or enhanced. Seriously, folks…I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried! As a 22 year old bride, I had in my mind certain things I…
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Advice for the Newly Married…What Not to Say
“Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won’t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.” ~ Author Unknown Among the many lessons every married couple learns are the following: Never ask a question for which you don’t know the answer. Never ask…
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Laugh and the world laughs with you…
“Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they will never cease to be amused.” ~ Author Unknown I have two children born to me by birth and several more born to me out of love. That sounds a little strange, but what I mean is that those kids closest to my own children…
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