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The Incredible Doofy Gardener 30 May 2013 | 09:07 pm
Mostly when I see people doing yard work, they look like they're enjoying it. They have big, beautiful landscapes and weedless yards. I see ladies in pink pants and matching gardening gloves, gently p...
Leave? Ha! 12 Apr 2013 | 05:24 pm
The week of preparation before 2 days of relaxation is like running a marathon just to eat a slice a cake. Leaving my boys at home while I go have fun on a girl's weekend should be exciting - and I'm...
Mean Girl Karma 4 Apr 2013 | 07:16 pm
What are the odds that the girl you tortured in high school would have a kid at the same time as you? Apparently, pretty good. There were plenty of pros and cons we went back and forth with before we...
On Once-A-Month Cooking and lost pants. 7 Nov 2012 | 08:53 pm
I've heard a lot of questions recently about the once-a-month cooking thing, so I'm posting run-down. If you want an entire website dedicated to it, see onceamonthmom.com. That's where I started and I...
Love with food 23 Oct 2012 | 06:56 pm
"Love" and "food" go together like "couch" and "butt." **In case you hadn't noticed by that first sentence, health nuts beware: This post has not yet been rated by the nutritionally invisible society...
Facebook Profiling 18 Jul 2012 | 11:09 pm
My Facebook stalking phase ended a while ago, but I still like to do a Mrs. Cravits scroll-through a couple times a day. I've noticed a few trends. It seems like all my 200+ closest friends have falle...
Everything's Crooked 6 Jul 2012 | 09:42 pm
Moving sucks rotten eggs. It's why we stayed in our first house so long - the one we fixed up over the course of a decade. We put in new windows and a deck, added light fixtures and upgraded electrica...
I'm Old-Fashioned 11 Feb 2012 | 03:59 am
As many of us all over the world did, I watched the video of the dad who shot the laptop because his daughter is a teenage brat. It was nostalgic, really. I also realized how much I appreciate having...
Up-Down, Up-Down 20 Dec 2011 | 03:43 pm
I've watched the movie Parenthood with Steve Martin maybe 5 times in my whole life, beginning when I was a tween. Every time I watch it, I seem to be in a different section of life. Tween, teen, early...
Bad Mommy: I was never a star student 19 Sep 2011 | 10:40 pm
Screaming, for me, is a regular element in the finishing of course work. It's been that way since first grade - or whenever it was we started learning about math (math is stupid, by the way). In elem...
