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Category Archives: Miscellaneous

My baby’s a Rock Star!

My husband is a ROCK STAR.  Unless you are an Apple-tapping, jQuery-loving, Twitterific computer geek, you may not realize this.  But his fans do.  The middle cat in the photo is named Swedberg. The other two are named Resig and Bango, after John Resig, the wunderkind creator of jQuery, and Rey Bango, who apparently is […]

Exchange of the Day

In the car, on the way to piano lessons: Ben:  Hey Mom, today we studied Elijah McCoy. Sara:  Who’s that? Ben:  Oh come ON!  Come ON!!!  You don’t know.  He invented the oil cup for trains.  And the lawn spritzer! Sara:  I can’t believe I didn’t know that. Ben:  I can’t either.  You’re so lame. […]

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Ben is eight now, and he really seems more like a 10-year old.  He’s honing a fine sense of cynicism and irony that his 6-year old sister misses entirely.  He seems to realize that the world doesn’t revolve around him, but that it is also his to explore.  He’s becoming more of an independent agent. […]

Captain Underpants

This morning Ben said “Yesterday should have been National Wedgie Day, where you learn the essential art of wedgies.” This is not apropros of nothing as we have been experimenting with wedgies.  You would not believe how high you can yank a pair of tighty-whiteys on an 8-year-old’s behind.  Or how funny he thinks it […]

It’s a New Day

What a day!  What a country!! I’m sitting in front of our old 18” tv dragged out of the basement this morning as our Big Daddy television wouldn’t wake up this morning.  The sun is shining and if there was one day in this dismal West Michigan winter to see the sun, today is it! […]

Last Evening’s Quote

Ben bit his tongue at dinner last night.  “OWWWWWWW!” Mom:  Oh, that hurts. Lucy:  Yes, that hurts.  This hurts more.  Getting your brain sucked out. Way to put it in perspective, Lucy.