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This afternoon, during a commercial break for Sponge Bob Square Pants (it’s a slippery slope, eh Kristina?), I told my two big boys that during the next commercial break, they would need to go out and bring up the recycling and trash bins. Immediately, Luke broke into angry tears and started shouting at me, “you [...]

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The Good: The doorbell rang late this morning – right around lunchtime – and I was delightfully surprised to see a flower delivery person standing on my doorstep with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.  My first thought, of course, was that they were for the neighbors.  But when the man used my name, I knew [...]

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I promised before and after pics of the fence, so here they are: Before After It look great, doesn’t it?  I just hope it lasts a good long time, ’cause that is NOT a project I’m looking forward to tackling.  I’m sure the neighbors were happy, though, what with the free bush trimming they received [...]

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I was folding laundry and chatting with Sam upstairs. He was back and forth between his room and the hallway and I was in the “extra room.” He announced that he needed to go potty, so I encouraged him to do so. He did. And pulled up his undies and his pants all by himself, [...]

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The comforts of home… A comfy bed.  TV to watch.  A computer to surf on.  A potty 10 feet away – just in case. These things may seem pretty basic, but when you compare where I’m sitting to where Dan is lying… I’ve definitely got the better deal. At Jack’s insistence, Dan agreed to “camp [...]

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Up against the clock as usual, we were heading out the door for Karate this evening. Everyone had been fed, shoes were on and I was ushering children out the door. Jack was first, followed by Maria. Luke and Sam were dawdling and as I was losing my patience with them, I heard an ear-piercing [...]

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This week has been a lazy week, as there have been no scheduled activities for the kids.  This is not a good thing, as it makes me lazy, too.  We all get out of bed late, eat breakfast late, stay in our jammies waaaayyyy too long and watch too much TV. This morning I was [...]

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This weekend in Chicagoland was amazingly beautiful.  Highs in the low 70′s, clear and sunny.  A small breeze. So, what to do on such a wonderful weekend? Stain the fence, that’s what.  A job I have dreaded since having the fence installed last October. And, I was right to dread it.  What an awful, boring, [...]

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And not for raising the youngest serial killer ever (yet). And not for being arrested for noise disturbance (despite our windows being open). We were in the Tribune, pictured with Spiderman!  (When I say “we” I mean the kids).  I had mentioned that Sam’s birthday coincided with the Spiderman Meet and Greet at the local [...]

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I never really considered myself vain.  Okay, maybe a little in high school.  But that ended quickly enough and by senior year in college, I was voted “Looks most like she just rolled out of bed.” I grew out of the rumpled stage when I entered the work world and looking presentable was required.  But, [...]

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