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Haiku Pleading

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Warrior, oh please
Bring VDog to play with me
“Cracker in Waiting”
 
 
Playgroupie would drive
To meet your gorgeous lovah
We’ll keep her comp’ny
 
 
She’ll be yours nightly
And mine during the daytime
You know - like normal!

Please Please Por Favor
Bitte Pretty Pretty Please
Please Please S’il Vous Plait.

Punt Soup Recipe

Beth at the Natural Mommy is hosting a recipe swap

I give you my recipe for Punt Soup.
Why Punt you ask?
You know those days that nothing goes as planned and you need to dream up some dinner that doesn’t require a take out box? What do you do? You Punt. Hence, Punt Soup. If […]

Ask me anything

That’s pretty much it. I’m opening the doors to my world even wider. What burning questions do you have for me? Lay ‘em on me. Consider it a birthday present to give me something to blog about.
Loves ya.
Okay fine. You want more words. I hear ya. Rhonda tagged me for this:

In celebration of random […]

Letter to my body

I once looked at the curve of your thigh and remarked to my mother, “I think I’m going to have your thighs.” She shot back, “You keep eating cookies the way you do and you’ll have YOUR thighs.”
I resisted your blooming shape, I was ashamed of any but the whitest, simplest bras to cover you. […]

NaNoWriMonday - 3:2

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She looked at her daughter laying in the bed with the slightly scratchy white sheets. She saw the short gray hair and the wrinkled face, but she also saw past that. She saw the face of a nine year old with a bob cut and straight bangs above the eyebrows. She saw the face of […]

Weekly Winners - Birthday Edition

Week Fifteen of Lotus’ weekly winners meme.
Click the link to see more participants!

A little girl was born on this very day, a few years ago.

The doctor had predicted a boy. The boy was to be named Michael Vincent. This photo is the girl’s mommy trying to NOT gloat that she got a GIRL instead.

This […]

Showin’ off

Here we go, time for your posts about home. No clue what I’m talking about? Check the original post last week, my own Thursday post, or SJSFalter and Susiej for the current entries. I’ll give ya’ll the winner next Saturday with a new challenge

Haiku Frequently Wet Bathroom Floor

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is it considered
potty training when Alex
pees ON the potty?

Home

It was interesting to look around the house to see what was “home” here. It’s so different from any other house I’ve had. It’s far from anyone we know. There’s a husband and a baby.
When we moved in, we’d lived in a 3 room apartment for a month and realized we didn’t need most of […]

Carseat

We’re going to have to upsize the carseat soon. Which sucks, because I’m still not over the trauma of installing the first one.
We put the car seat bases in the vehicles at about Week 34. Not because we thought we would need them in the next few days, just because we were out of decent […]