25th August, 2008
Please read me more Bearymore, Emma.
Jeff caught Emma reading to Ian the other day.
I can never get enough of sweet moments like these.
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24th August, 2008
Cake!
Hysterical!
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24th August, 2008
Hannah is 10!
I’m so thankful for this sweet daughter God has blessed us with. She is truly a joy to our hearts!
Here are photos from her 10th birthday party yesterday. These are friends of hers from church and really helped to make her celebration a special one!
At the community pool (where the lifeguards double as drill sergeants).
Back at our house before opening gifts.
Making ice cream sundaes (I later realized the reason the vanilla ice cream looked so odd was because it was 100% fat free frozen yogurt :S)!
The entertainment!
Happy 10th Birthday Hannah!!!
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21st August, 2008
Two happy things
1. I have an IPOD!
2. I no longer have DIAL UP internet connection.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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16th August, 2008
Parental platitude #742
Like many 3 year olds, my son loves dipping his food (and smashing, chomping, shoving and bubbling it too but we’ll not go there right now).
Lately he’s enjoyed dipping his pretzels in his water, and of course, like most 36 year old moms, I’ve been working on putting that little practice to a grinding halt.
So today while we’re all eating lunch, Ian decides to do the pretzel dip (he’s not a quick learner). Jeff lazily looks over at me and says, “Well, if he likes to dip his pretzels in water, why stop it?”
To which I respond by looking back at him with the have-you-lost-your-mind glare, trying to come up with a convincing answer.
“Because it distorts the purpose of the water.”
So there you have it. Another helpful reply to file away in your parental toolkit.
I’m just here to help, friends.
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13th August, 2008
Drink More Coffee
See! I’m not crazy (well, not without good reason anyhow).
And because I was curious, I took this test and scored VERY high on the “strong tendency to ADD” part:
Attention Deficit Disorder Symptoms List
Fascinating!
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12th August, 2008
I have an Abbreviation.
Have you noticed? I’ve been on a blogging hiatus. I’m not sure why. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to talk about. I think it’s just that I haven’t been able to articulate anything lately in words coherent enough that they can transfer to the keyboard and ultimately, the blog box. But today. Today! I think I might actually be able to post something worthy of reading. Maybe.
I’ve come to a decision in my life. It involves big letters and a sense of relief. No, I haven’t decided to regularly dose myself with Immodium AD. I have, however, decided to diagnose myself with ADD.
See, part of the fun in doing this is that it doesn’t involve doctors, money and drugs. Instead, it involves, me, the internet and coffee.
I have ADD. How do I know this? Because as a friend stated, my brain doesn’t know how to “be quiet”. Remember this post? OK, yes, it’s an exaggeration. But it’s not terribly so. What’s funny interesting is that when I TRY to focus and concentrate, I can’t do anything else. It teeters on obsession (which would explain my OCD, but that’s been discussed here ad nauseum already, though I’m not at all oppposed to rambling on about it in a future post). So today, thanks to the beauty of internet message boards (we should have an Internet Message Board Awareness Day – I’ll start a petition), I have decided I not only have OCD, SAD and hereditary anxiety, I now have ADD!
Yet you still ask (are you serious?) how I know this.
Well. It’s the Coffee Test. When ADD people drink caffeine, instead of giving them energy and spunk, it mellows them. They can think calmly. Their synapses aren’t going at 90MPH. They feel “normal”.
Here’s the lightening bolt part of the post. Ready?
That is SO me. SO. Me. Even though my body shakes uncontrollably if I drink coffee on an empty stomach, psychologically, I’m chillin’. I’m able to think without constantly interrupting myself. I feel “normal”.
So. To sum up.
Me – ADD.
Got ADD? Drink coffee.
Now, isn’t that wild? Caffeine, a STIMULANT, calms ADD people. ADD! ADD, PEOPLE! IT CALMS US! IT’S LIKE A LIQUID ENIGMA!!!
You know what? I didn’t have coffee today.
I think I made my point.
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6th August, 2008
Do you “need” a laugh “today”?
The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
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