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Arrival at Grown-Upville
We are well into my daughter’s third week of elementary school and I would like to report that we have not been late one time! So, all of you suckers who were betting against me, cough it up – YOU LOSE. I will admit that thanks to her grandparents, my kindergartner does have her own [...]
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Tags: adulthood, alarm clock, bumper stickers, elementary school, growing up, kindergarten, my kids can beat up your honor student, parent teacher organization, pto, raising kids
Best Friends Forever
“Friends are the family you make for yourself.” – Unknown If Megan had been born a man, my boyfriend would be in big trouble. In fact, if we were lesbians, I’d have it made. She has helped me be my best, been a victim of my worst and still calls me her best friend. Everyone [...]
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Tags: best friends, death, friends, girlfriends, life
The Devil Teaches Kindergarten
Today my daughter took her kindergarten assessment test. Forgive me while I switch into Proud-Mama-Mode and brag for a moment. The average score for this test is 90. My daughter scored 112. I am well on my way to having a “My kid is smarter than your kid” bumper sticker on my car. My mind [...]
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Tags: back to school, bad teachers, evil teacher, first day of school, forming children, kindergarten, parenting, teachers
The MySpace Exodus
After many years on MySpace, my account is closed. I made no production about leaving, told no one, simply sat down at the computer and hit the “delete” key. The time for my departure arrived after much thought and consideration. It was a bittersweet decision and while I do miss my friends I made there, [...]
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Tags: blogging, deleting myspace, myspace, reconnecting, social networking, wedding plans
To Spank or Not to Spank
In the paper this week was an article entitled “Southern Parents Spank Their Kids.” Really? THIS is news? Obviously these people haven’t been hanging around my house lately or this would never have made the front page of the paper. This is like a page four story around here. I am a firm believer in [...]
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Tags: corporal punishment, discipline, kids, parenting, spanking
Biting Your Toenails
Isn’t life supposed to calm down after you retire? I am now in week two of my “retirement” and if anything, I seem to have less time than when I was logging forty hours a week in my office. How is that possible? In the past fourteen days I have visited five states, caught up [...]
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Tags: biting toenails, funny things kids say, kids, moms, parenting, single mom
It Was a Good Day
We spent Father’s Day just as I said we would. Around noon, I packed up the car, strapped the kids into their 64-point harnesses and headed to the cemetery for our picnic with Daddy. Since it was their picnic, lunch consisted of Happy Meals rather than the originally planned KFC because, let’s face it, the [...]
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Today, on Father’s Day, my children and I are taking a bucket of chicken to the cemetery. For those of you who are new around here, my husband was killed in a car accident last year on May 31st. He was 25 years old. We have two children and at the time of his death, [...]
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Tags: car accidents, father's day, memorial, robert william huttinger, single moms, texting and driving, widows
Diary of a Prom Queen Reject
Next weekend is my ten year high school reunion. I will not be in attendance. I have spent more time in Western North Carolina this year than I have in ten years collectively, and have no desire to make the dreaded trip down I-40 for the third time in a month. Besides, most of the [...]
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Tags: choices, college, graduation, growing up, high school, journey, life
Lights Will Guide You Home
There are 18 days, 7 hours, 41 minutes and 16 seconds until my last day at work. (Not that I’m counting or anything.) Most of you will remember that six months ago I handed in my resignation letter to my employer of ten years. My job has been good to me, paid me relatively well, [...]
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Tags: career change, coldplay, fix you, going back to school, jobs, single mom
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