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Fine Toothed Comb

Yesterday The Mercenary was hoping to earn some extra money, so I mentioned that I’d pay fifty cents if he’d clean out the van.  It wasn’t much later that he informed me that the job was complete.  I asked the standard question:  “Will I think...

Justice, 3yo style

2006 Last week one evening we had a lot of people over so Hubby extended our dining room table out with all the leaves. It’s not how we usually have it but I just haven’t bothered to take it all back down. A little while ago either the Manager or Captain...

The bucket story

Winter 2006 On Saturday The Manager(age 3) coughed so hard he gagged and threw up on 2 separate occasions. Small town life means no doctors on the weekend unless we go to the ER, so we decided to just survive till Monday and then call for the appt. Meanwhile, we tried...

Not to worry, I rescued him

I spent the last hour or so writing my most recent post on parenting.  This caused me to be tired. Especially since I wrote it sitting on my incredibly (old) soft and comfy couch.  So I closed my eyes and snoozed here in the living room for just a few minutes.   While...

Mystery solved

A memory from 2006 Captain Earthquake has been waking up at night. Okay, well, he wakes up every night, multiple times. He comes and gets me to tuck him back in. Sometimes its once a night, rarely he sleeps through, and often it’s multiple wake ups. Several...

How?

March 2006 Funny thing: my little boys don’t say why. Ever. They ask “how?” all the time. I don’t know where they got it, but that’s what they say. It’s clear they mean “why”, but they always say how. Or “have...