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My kids’ school has a disproportionately large number of pregnant teenagers and a proportionately small amount of sex ed. They get a little reproductive knowledge in science, a dash of “your changing body” from a trip to the Hult Health education center and smidgen of “sex, don’t do it” in an 8th grade health [...]

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I have a cold.
This morning I woke up with crusty eyes and a boogery nose.
My stomach is sour from the drainage. My throat hurts and head aches.
Yet, instead of lying at home in sweats watching TLC and E!, I am at work wearing a black padded push-up bra. And a thong. [...]

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SS: Hi, I’m back
SS: How’s your day going?
J: Oh, okay, still rueing this stupid cold.
J: How is your hair?
SS: Short.
J: Short?
SS: My hair is short.
J: How short?
J: Short for you?
SS: Not super short.
J: Or short for a regular person?
SS: But shorter than yours or L’s.
SS: Shoulder length.
J: Wow, do you like it?
J: I bet it [...]

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I’m thinking this award is really a kiss-ass way to get bloggers to do a meme!
So, to keep the whole chain-letter aspect of the award/meme going, here are the rules:
(1) List six things that make you happy
(2) Pass the award on to 6 more kreativ bloggers
(3) Link back to the person who gave you the [...]

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Driving Tay to school this morning I asked him what kind of cake he would like for his birthday.
Ever terse in the morning, he said:
I. DON’T. LIKE. CAKE.
Okay, weirdo boy, is there another dessert you would like for your birthday?
“Cupcakes.”

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I suck at being the tooth fairy.
Several times I totally forgot to commit the monetary/tooth switcheroo; imagine having to explain to your six year old that the tooth fairy had a rough night full of hookers and meth and just couldn’t manage the fly-by. “But he’ll get back to you!”
The older [...]

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I’m beginning to think my blog should just be entitled “Ways I embarrass myself and/or my children.”
Yesterday morning, stepping out of the shower, I heard the phone ring. It was 7:30 am and my husband had just left for work. Thinking he must have forgotten to tell me [...]

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I am REALLY glad election day is here. Like most everyone, I’m sick of the ads, but more importantly, my husband has been doing some serious brainwashing of our kids.
Filling them full of FOX News mumbo-jumbo. Barack is a secret Muslim. He’s a Socialist. He’ll raise our taxes. We’ll [...]

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Saturday night Reagan, L. and I were discussing ligers, Napoleon Dynamite’s favorite animal.

The topic arose because there was a news story about a man who was killed in a savage liger attack.
After convincing L. and Reagan that ligers are a hybrid cross between a tiger and [...]

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