Announcement: Classroom Parties! 2 down, 4 to go! AND, today’s parties were very much okay. Of course, my style is to always focus on the glitches (kids who despise caramel, kids who HATE that I didn’t bring cupcakes, kids who were injured during the popcorn relay, etc.). I’ve made mental notes for the remaining parties [...]

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As you know, I’ve signed on to be the head room parent for both Meredith and Harper. Our Fall Party is Monday. This is how it’s going to go down. (Scoot back. You’re about to fall off the edge of your seat!) The first graders will be decorating plain pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies with icing and [...]

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It seems that I keep putting posts up and then taking them down because I’ve become severely self-conscious of looking like a jerk or offending a group of people. This should not offend anyone. (Unless you’re opposed to Halloween. If you’re opposed to Halloween, LOOK AWAY!) On Saturday evening, we took Hermione and Evil Angel [...]

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At about 5:30ish this evening, we will have been married for exactly ten years. (We will BE married? We Will Have Been seems incorrect. However, it’s much better than we WOULD have been, yes?) Anyway, ten years is nuts. I’ve never done ANYTHING consistently for ten years, and now this! We’ve reached a decade! When [...]

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Ten years ago today, I got together with my cousins, my aunt, my sister, my mom, and my mother-in-law. We went to Olympia, where cheese was set on fire and I did a bit of this: And a bit of this: And a lot of this: When it occurred to my aunt that I hadn’t [...]

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So, remember yesterday when I mentioned that something in the house smelled like urine? I noticed that the odor was stronger when I was sitting at the computer, which made me think it was something in the kitchen. Later in the afternoon, I noticed that it was pretty terrible when I was driving the car, [...]

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Hello! It appears that October is already 1/3 of the way over, and that raises my anxiety levels a bit because: Due to circumstances beyond my control but not REALLY beyond my control, I am now the head room parent for Meredith’s class AND Harper’s class. I filled out the form and said something like, [...]

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It has been One Of Those Weeks. We realized on Monday that our license plates expired in September. SO, on Tuesday I took the car in for an inspection, and it failed because of a malfunctioning LED brake strip. We quickly scheduled an appointment at the dealer, because it seems that no one else carries [...]

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