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Monthly Archive for December, 2013

Sunset of the Mama Era

As 2013 winds down, I’m left with three thoughts. The first is could I please, please stop spending money? In the last three months, we’ve replaced our car, hot water heater, and furnace. I needed two of the three and wasn’t far off from needing the third, but I’m well and truly sick of writing […]

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Middle of the Pack

When is being strictly average totally exciting? When you are playing up, that’s when. For the last three weeks, Simon has been playing in the Mockingbird Valley U-10 soccer league. This division is open to boys and girls (but mostly boys it would seem) who were at least 8 and not yet 10 when the […]

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You know the story, right? Elizabeth thinks Mr. Darcy is a stuck-up prig. He thinks she’s mean and low-class. She’s nasty to him. Frostiness ensues. Then, after he rescues her sister from ruin, she realizes that he’s just shy. They live happily ever after. I’m living out a much less romantic version of this morality […]

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No, I didn’t go anywhere. I’ve just been over-committed everywhere, mostly not of my own doing. (Out-of-town guests stuff, PTA stuff, household emergency stuff, and zoning battle stuff.) 2013 is looking like it’s going to be a race to the finish. Herewith are, with just two weeks left, some of the funnier things Simon has […]

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Our Life in Cancelation

My Louisville peeps all know that we’ve had our first winter storm Friday. Over the course of the day, we got rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, and “winter mix”. As a result, the following things were canceled: Preschool on Friday Simon’s school on Friday, including a presentation on Chanukah I was going to lead. Soccer […]

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Between the preschool and volunteering in Simon’s class, I spend a lot of my time around other people’s children these days. They almost always amuse me, but the occasional child is particularly endearing. These days, I’m especially fond of little Raja and Kalli (names changed). Raja is a spitfire who I suspect causes the occasional […]

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