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February 13, 2008 - Number of Comments » 3

I was waiting in line at the grocery store this morning watching while the woman in line just ahead of me tried valiantly to stop her kid from demolishing the magazine stand.
But her son was on a mission. When mama turned for 2 seconds to get her wallet out of her bag he started grabbing […]



January 28, 2008 - Number of Comments » 9

So yesterday was Pinky’s funeral. We ceremoniously took her/him (we never did figure it out, though M. insisted it was a “girl” goldfish) out of the freezer and “she” was buried in the small flower bed in the back garden.
The funeral itself was a simple affair, allowing all the kids to say goodbye to […]



January 24, 2008 - Number of Comments » 7

So last night Hubs and I were feeling gooooood (now that we have recovered from the flu) and decided to up the ante a bit on the 30-days-to-more-intimacy experiment.
Falling asleep holding hands was a fantastic first step, (and about all we could muster at the time) but now we were both ready to dive […]



January 20, 2008 - Number of Comments » 1

They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I don’t personally know about Hell, but I can say that Hubs and I had the very best of intensions when we committed to having a date night once a week. Note that I said committed - we did not make a New Year’s […]



January 13, 2008 - Number of Comments » 4

OMG…. After that post I wrote on Friday about Hubs being such a wimp I sure felt bad yesterday when he really did get sick with the flu.
He even lost his voice and so, feeling bad for him, I gave him this lovely little bell to ring if he needed anything. BIG MISTAKE.
It […]