From the category archives:

things that crack me up

i guess we won’t be having rice for dinner tomorrow

on July 23, 2010 in I can't make this stuff up

Tweet I’ve been lucky that week after week we’ve been able to have friends or family here.  It would have been so much easier if we lived in Tampa or Daytona, where we have lots of loved ones.  We have managed the past months on the hearts of those that taken time to come to [...]

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funkytown, one turn past Allentown and Elizabethtown

on June 8, 2010 in I can't make this stuff up

Tweet Sometimes I get in a funk. Then I have to make myself find reasons for to get out of it. There’s been physical progress, conference opportunities, Extreme Home Makeover videos, husbands that make threats involving things that are put up high. Funk?  When do I have long to wallow in the funkadelio? Mainly because [...]

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oh! the joy of motherhood…it takes a lot of SOMETHING

on May 10, 2010 in fun opportunities

Tweet I woke to the smell of cooking eggs and muffins. “Don’t look, mama!!” is screamed at me. Plates made of goofy writing and coffee cups with smiling pictures adhered carefully are as good as gift of gold. The sun shines down on gleaming smiles and freshly scrubbed faces. “He’s touching me!” “She used my [...]

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my first steps of independence, but i only have one leg that works, so its the faceplant of indepedence

on April 25, 2010 in all things bloggity

Tweet Last night my oldest daughter had a sleepover and our son was home late from an outing.  It meant our youngest was an only child for a while. It was torture, clearly. So to make up for it we offered her the kind of reward only possible at Chick Fil A.  Waffle Fries.  Yay!!! [...]

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i’m obviously handicapped. i should be pitied and given parking. that’s how it works, right?

on April 4, 2010 in FUN!

Tweet So a lot of you are wondering what the stroke has done. And, I’m going to tell you. My whole right side is paralyzed….leg, arm, torso, so-forth. My face is numb….my jaw and lips have issues. I have crap eyes now and double vision. I have ear and hearing problems. That’s most of it. [...]

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If we’d had one more day there probably would’ve been a boar’s head on a stick somewhere

on November 3, 2009 in Aiming Low

Tweet Corporations would call it a “Team Building”. At Aiming Low, we call it “Times when you’d better wear a diaper cause chances are good you might pee a little”. (I don’t even watch The Office and this is funny…probably because I love Ali Martell…no, I REALLY love Ali Martell) I mean, come on, there’s [...]

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