January 2012
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So at dinner we go around and say our favorite...
Pippa’s favorite part of the day was going poop.
December 2011
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... and here comes the vomit
and since it’s Pippa that’s throwing up I can’t get her to tell me if her tummy hurts or if it’s the too much mucus making her gag thing.
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We are all sick
Between the 4 of us we’re going to make a whole extra family of 12 completely out of mucus.
“Rockabye baby when the wheels go round and round, the taxi the taxi have you...”
– In the taxi, almost finally home, Pips is half asleep and singing
“Medieval Times was when there were sailing ships and cannons and people...”
– Overheard, father explaining to his 8ish year old.
At the Denver Public Library (because I always go...
This 10ish year old girl came over and volunteered to read a book to the girls. They LOVED it.
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If you can listen to Puff the Magic Dragon without...
“Free, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, firteen,...”
– Pippa counts
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There was an older gentleman today reading...
He wasn’t even to the capital yet. I really wanted to tap him on the shoulder and say to him, “if you need a hug in about an hour or two I’ll be around.” Brandon told me that would be creepy, though, so I didn’t.
But for serious. He’s going to need a hug in an hour or two.
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Pips has started to use "super" to mean very.
It’s a habit she picked up from me but I don’t mind taking the blame because it’s super* adorable.
This morning she insisted on the short sleeved shirt and within 5 minutes she turned to me and said, “I’m super cold.” So I produced the sweater I had kept handy because I knew this was coming.
Last night after going potty she announced she was “super...
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A monster truck is taking up 4 spaces in this...
I totally wrote a note that said, “thank you for parking like an asshole. Sorry about your tiny dick.”
And I’m not even ashamed.
At the Barnes and Noble in my home town
K: I need to go to the potty!
LP (turning everyone around): Ok, let's go.
K: Are we going to go find someone and ask where the potty is?
LP: Nope. I used to work here. I know where the potty is.
K: And was it your job to tell people where the potty is?
LP: Yes, it was.
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In which I betray my team (team cake)
LP: girls, would you like some pie?
K: nope
P: no fank you
LP: you do realize it's basically cake, right?
K: Oh!
P: yes peese!
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Worst mother ever?
So after dinner the kids were playing in the living room and I was given the job of opening random toys. There were 5 kids running around so I held the sharp knife over my head as I walked in because it seemed like the safest way at the time. Pips saw me and ran away yelling, “NO, MOMMY! NO!”
Brandon’s sister said, “why are you scared?” Just as I said,...
(He says that the internet should be on his side because I didn’t know who John Carter is.)
(I am married to a man who thinks that Alan Rickman has never been in anything significant.)
(He’s lucky he’s so wonderful because them’s fighting words)
I hadn't realized how much I missed mountains.
Hello Colorado.
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Breaking News:
Pips was randomly selected at the security check in just now. They swabbed her hands presumably, I suppose, to check for explosive residue.
She checked out. She is not a terrorist.
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Somebody's been sneaking into my house!
Thank you for the presents, glitch secret santa.
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Is there, in the whole world, a gay person...
This important question brought to you by an edited version of the Kookaburra song that calls Kookaburra’s life happy “to not offend anyone.” I’m willing to change how I sing the song if it seriously offends someone in the QUILTBAG community but if we’re just trying not to offend the poor straights by reminding them of the gays? Yeah, eff that.
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Also as someone who is more firmly team cake than... →
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Emergency Guacamole Orders
mar-see-ah:
Two days in a row.
How is this my life?
I am proud to have a sister who saves people when they have guacamole emergencies. Thank you, Mar-see-ah. You make the world a better place.
Oh my heart!
Pips and Brandon just stopped by my work after dropping Kins off at school and she was wearing her Halloween dress with a witch on it and Brandon said, “she’s a little confused about what holiday is coming up” so I said, “HAPPY HALLOWEEN!” and Pippa said, “HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I LOVE YOU!” And my heart hurts because they had to leave because they...
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SOIAF PREDICTION!
Ok, I’m a little over halfway through the second Song of Ice and Fire book. I read through book 3 back in college but remember very little of it. Arya is what, 11 by now? And Dany is 16? I’m voting that in about 7 years when Dany makes it across the sea, Dany and Arya run into each other, have a torrid love affair, get married, and sit the iron throne together. Daenerys...
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vikax replied to your photo: Apparently Kins fell in love with this hideous…
at least it’s Gap :-)
That almost makes it worse, ya know? Like - some high falutin muckety muck thought that was a good idea and then mass produced it.
Presented with no context.
K: and you know that Belle?
LP: yes
K: well I hadn't seen her in forEVER but it turned out she was in the roof of the animal hospital.
LP: and did you find your lost marble there?
K: no. Inside the hospital was Belle and a dinosaur but no marble.
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
I hate that feeling that the fate of the world is in the hands of a small group of men acting like 10-year-olds giddy from root beer and Doritos and the power of staying up three hours past their bedtimes playing a marathon game of Risk.
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elledeau replied to your post: Things that make me ridiculously happy:
can we be goodreads frans?
HECK EFFING YES