Tag: kids
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Learning to French Kiss
One of my favorite things about little kids is how their interpretations of the world around them are so much different than ours as adults. My daughter, Amber, is now 16; but,when she was little, she came up with some real doozies. It’s not difficult to imagine my surprise and distress when she came home…
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He’s Calling Your Name…
Over these last 16 years of parenting, I’ve learned a lot about the importance of delegation. And, to my husband’s credit, he’s usually pretty good about picking up the pieces that I delegate to him in the arena of childcare. With one exception: anything that happens in the middle of the night. If it happens…
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Holiday Flashback!
Dear Readers: It’s Memorial Day Weekend, and – like many of the rest of you – I’ve decided to take the day off. But never fear…I won’t leave you high and dry. Today’s post is a flash back to my very first blog on this site. This article debuted on my blog for the first…
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Throw Mommy Under the Bus!
I’m not entirely sure why or how, but my children learned at a very early age that it’s fun to harass me. That is to say that they’re always saying and doing things to give me a hard time, usually just for laughs or to see my reaction. I’m not sure exactly where they learned…
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Quips and Quotes – Friday, May 18, 2012
It’s Quips and Quotes Friday, and I’m late! So sorry! I thought I might be able to get by with skipping it today, but the hounds are at my door howling and wanting to know why there’s no blog. Ack! And these were people who assured me that they’d never seen my blog! All I…
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Today’s Post Is Most Definitely NOT About S-E-X!
Dear Readers: Before I begin today’s blog, I have to take a moment to comment on yesterday’s blog (Cell) Phone Sex. You people seriously crack me up! My goal in writing this blog is to make you laugh, but yesterday you made me laugh! What is it about sex that sells? I put sex in…
C.H. Armstrong
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Teaching Mom to Laugh at Herself
One of the lessons I’ve tried my hardest to instill in my kids is the importance of learning to laugh at yourself. If I’ve said it once, I’m sure I’ve said it a thousand times: “If you can’t learn to laugh at yourself, then you’ll be the only one not laughing while the rest of…
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The Adventures of Box Boy
About six months ago, we got new neighbors. They seem nice enough. I think they’re both doctors, and they have one son that’s a few years younger than my daughter. We nicknamed him “Box Boy.” Okay, in fairness to myself and my husband, we didn’t nickname him Box Boy; our kids did. It all started…
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Quips and Quotes Friday – May 11, 2012
Here we are again…FRIDAY! For this week’s Quips and Quotes, I’d like to bring you the conversations that took place in my house in the days following my daughter’s completion of Driver’s Ed and those leading up to her 16th Birthday. Enjoy! Always Listen to Mommy! As some of you know, I have a 16…
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The Wit and Wisdom of Braden (2nd Ed.)
On Monday evening I went to a Volunteer Appreciation Event for our school district. While there, I was talking with one of the school district’s “Director of Some-Such-Thing” and we were discussing small children and how their views of the world is so much more interesting than ours seem to be as adults. Kids just…
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