The below is a guest post by a . . . TOTAL . . . STRANGER . . . BWAA HAA HAAAAAA. As part of Blog Share 2009, we each submitted anonymous blogs round the rosie, as they say. Mine is out there on someone else’s blog, anonymous. Below the post is a list of…
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All Hallow's Eve
We walked down the solid half mile of block party, witches and warlocks, pirates and princesses, a Campbell’s soup can, and (my favorite) the Easter Bunny. Jack, the big black spider, learned quickly to march up to the porch, maneuver himself up the steps, and dig right down into the candy. He grabbed armfuls of…
I Should Be Drafting A Memo Right Now
My non-babysitting time is so limited, I find it hard to justify blogs these days. I miss writing, but since I only have about 30-35 daylight hours a week to work on schoolwork, and about 50-60-100 hours of schoolwork to do in that time (really you could work all day and night and still have…
A Rough in the Diamonds
V. busy lately, but this old story popped in my head today so I thought I’d share.My brother has four sisters. Don’t feel sorry for him, he was and continues to be much spoiled to make up for his position as the lone male. Anyhow, one rainy day when we were all little, my mother…
Newborn Days
Very dear friends of ours had their first baby today, and 8 hours later they are still having a hard time deciding her name. As I was reading through their list of decisions and trying to think nostalgically about our own wonderful newborn days, my darling son was whacking the office door with his head. …