* Caleb’s stuffed animals call me “Grandma”. This I do not like.
* Katie’s first ever dentist appointment was yesterday. (Yes, at 10, she’s a little old for a first dental visit, but anxiety issues related to AS kept us from taking her before.) I expected to have to hold her hand, but she surprised me. [...]
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1. Pandemonium. Feeling proud of her innovative teaching methods, Katrina invited the spider monkey’s owner to bring him to class, revealing her deeply flawed understanding of both monkeys and first graders. Pandemonium ensued.
2. Cabal. The Strunkwhite Cabal was dedicated to destroying misspelled and mispunctuated signs wherever they occurred. Despite their 30 year reign of terror, [...]
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I admit it. I’d been coveting an iPhone for quite a while. However, we had been Verizon customers since time immemorial, locked into a succession of satisfying two year service plans, and since the iPhone is exclusive to AT&T, I had given it up as a lost dream. I spent a lot of time checking [...]
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Paul is out of town this week, counseling at a Christian teen camp up in Northeast Washington state. I love what he’s doing, but I hate being apart. The house is too quiet, the bed is too big, and the ten thousand words I usually bestow upon him the minute he arrives home from work [...]
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