Live! From the Pre-recorded Videotape!!

American Idol was exciting last night. I’m not sure I liked the 2-song format, because it was hard to keep the first in mind. Which of course, the contestants took advantage of (or the remixer of the video tape took advantage of) and tried to put the songs in a smart order. [...]

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Moving

The girls are going through their things in pursuit of our goal: Two boxes packed per person per week. Beloved and I are trying to make this process as painless as possible (we move in July …. )
They ended up traveling to the apartment next door with their arms full of dolls. [...]

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The end of vacation

I had a delicious time off.  It was absolutely rejuvinating, and a great time for the girls and I.  We had a lot of together time, including conversations, games of Monopoly, Frisbee sessions, walks, frappucinos, smoothies, races, long drives to Connecticut, a day in New York City, time with the grandparents and with the baby [...]

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Squirmy Avoidance

This is becoming a familiar feeling.
Where I avoid the news – paper, broadcast, internet – all damned day.  I do it purposefully.  If I accidentally click on my usual news sites, I quickly steer away.  If a blogger I enjoy dares speak of the AVOIDED, I again, click away.
Even when 70% of the stories ask [...]

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First Steps

Even though my past two posts were full of how great my kids are, we are of course, well rounded people.  With issues and up hill battles and what not.
Which is why I now have an appointment in place for E to visit with a therapist.
I mentioned that during Play Weekend I had my first [...]

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My Sweet Delinquents

A couple of weeks ago, the girls had some rare downtime.  They were using that time to “play Yahtzee.”  Qhotes because that is what I had assumed.  But when they got up to do the next thing, J announced, “[E]!  It comes out to 12.7 rolls.”  What the heck?  “Oh, that’s the average of how [...]

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Marathon Madness

This is the first year that the girls have been home during a school vacation week.  My higher income gave me a bit of a bargaining chip in the child support/visitation department.  He pays less, I get to play with the kids more.  We were going to go to D.C., but instead choose to syphon [...]

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I am the Mother of a Celebrity

On Day One of vacation, we found ourselves at a school playground in town – one replete with younger-kid play structures and a large toddler population.  An odd place to be, having these older children of mine.  The kids on the swings and the slides were so very short.  The kids wracked with sobs in [...]

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What Happened to the Summer

I had a very hard time, back in March, getting the Ex to commit to summer dates. He kept saying his employment was up in the air, and what happened there would affect when his summer ended (he’s a professor). I may or may not have conveyed sympathy for his relative lack of [...]

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On Stress and Civility

Posting has been light, but with good reason.  The kids’ school play was this past weekend, wherein E was one of the leads, and J was an adorable little singer & dancer.  I, meanwhile, was on the “production team,” and ended up spending every spare moment – both at work and at home – dealing [...]

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