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Mozart

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The kids have been busy wringing every last playable moment out of the summer.   This means they’re having lots of quality time with the neighbor kids, but maybe not so much with me.  I’m mostly needed for snacks and negotiating treaties.  When school begins again, I will relish our after-school snack time together where their […]

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Bugs

Friday, July 3, 2009

Another parenting milestone reached here at the Swedberg household:  lice! Ben and Lucy had been to a sleepover this weekend and we heard on Tuesday that they might have taken some little buggy friends home with them.  I am fascinated by how I take news like that.  My mother once said I would make a […]

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Nachos

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Whoa. TOTALLY unreliable, I know. Must write more. I’ve got about 10 posts swirling inside my head, the first of which is a declaration of intent or Why I Post. Too much to make happen with kids banging in and out of the house and SO much cleaning up to do after weeks and weeks […]

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More Haiku

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

After Ben’s recent foray into haiku, my eye caught a book at the library called Haiku This Other World and I plucked it off the shelf. All 817 of the  book’s haiku were written by Richard Wright, the African-American novelist.  Wright was born in 1908 in rural Mississippi and became famous with the publication of […]

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Who Let The Dogs Out?

Friday, May 8, 2009

Do you remember that song “Who Let the Dogs Out?”  No?  It was a huge hit ten years ago.  Also ranked the #3 most annoying song ever by Rolling Stone, handily thrashing “The Thong Song” by Sisqo.  If you enjoy having a song stuck in your head for days, do click on this link: Anyway, […]

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Lucy does it again

Friday, May 1, 2009

It’s been a while since Lucy delivered a zinger.  I found this one sitting in my drafts file.  I really thought I’d shared it.  It’s a jewel. Lucy:  Mom, dogs are people too. Sara:  No, they’re not. Lucy:  Well, they could be. Sara:  No, they can’t.  People are humans.  Only humans.  You know, women, men, […]

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