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Quote of the Day
April 29, 2006 18:42
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“Oh crap, it’s a real live crazy place there.” – My friend Kathy, after hearing a description of my evening.
Kayla's Drawings
April 21, 2006 17:58
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I share my artwork here all the time, so I thought I’d share some of Kayla’s.


This is a sheep standing next to a horse.


A chicken.


Kayla and her “three big friends”, holding umbrellas in the rain. Kayla is the figure to the left, and she has 2 umbrellas. The three friends apparently have to share an umbrella. The M is actually “the water”, and the rock-looking thing between Kayla and her friends is a blanket.

I especially like how everybody (even the chicken) has a huge grin on their faces. She’s a happy little girl.
God Must Have Spent a Little More Time On You
April 20, 2006 18:00
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For my children. Maybe this explains why they were all “late”?

~
In all of creation
All things great or small
You are the one that surpasses them all
More precious than
Any diamond or pearl
They broke the mold
When you came in this world
And I’m trying hard to figure out
Just how I ever did without
The warmth of your smile
The heart of a child
That’s deep inside
Leaves me purified
Checking the Calendar
April 19, 2006 18:01
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Tags: politics

I had to look at the calendar today, to make sure it wasn’t April 1st and the world wasn’t pulling some gigantic hoax on me.

First surprise was that Katie Holmes (girlfriend of Tom Cruise) had her baby on the SAME DAY as Brooke Shields. You probably remember when Tom Cruise made an ass of himself for criticizing Brooke for taking antidepressants, right? How “fucked up karma” is it that they had their babies on the same day?

And then, Mike informed me that the United Nations Commission on Disarmament on Tuesday elected Iran as deputy for Asian nations. You have GOT to be joking. They write entire books of cliches about this kind of thing, the foremost of which in my mind refers to a fox and a hen’s den. Can we just pull out of the UN already and let the damn thing die a slow, l...
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Stretching His Wings
April 18, 2006 18:03
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Tonight I gave the older three kids a round of baths. This is always a fairly major undertaking – three squirming, hollering, shampoo-phobes; all that hunching over the bathtub; teeth-brushing. It’s enough to wear a person out, not to mention leave you dripping wet, yourself.

I got Kayla and Thomas through their bath (they shared the tub), then got Adam into fresh water. I washed his hair, then told him he could have some playtime and I’d be back to check on him. Five or ten minutes later, just as I was about to check on him, he came out the door, announcing he’d dried off “all by myself.” Before I could tell him to, he headed for his room to pick out some clothes and get dressed.

Yesterday, I sent him to the deep freeze to get a loaf of bread, and he obliged. He even got his bedroom door closed again (the door to the garage, where the deep freeze is, lies in his room), though I found out later he’d forgotten to clo...
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Quote of the Day
April 06, 2006 18:06
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“I think my name is Kayla because I’m cute.” – Kayla

No, love, your name is Kayla because you’re vain. ;)
Quote of the Day
April 04, 2006 18:06
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“Mommy, there’s some drips of water coming out of your eye.” – Kayla
What I'm Loving
April 02, 2006 18:09
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Aside from my family (of course!), here’s what I’m loving lately:

* Mother’s Double Fudge cookies
* Sweetened ice tea
* Sleep!
* Bazzill cardstock
* Unmounted rubber stamps
* Eucerin Dry Skin Therapy lotion
* Friends I can be catty with online
* Sleep!
* Cutterpede paper trimmer
* The Fairly Odd Parents
* The new washing machine
* Cropper Hopper embellishment storage
* Did I mention sleep?
Things to Come?
April 01, 2006 18:11
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I took Adam to the Palouse Discovery Science Center today since his soccer practice got rained out (again!), and at one point we wandered over to their dinosaur toy area – Adam calls it “Dinosaur City.” I laid Lindsey on the carpet mat to watch him while he played (I was right next to them), and she just cooed and gurgled and talked and ate it up. A few minutes later, two little boys – about 3 or 4 years old – joined Adam and played with him, all noisy and rowdy, the way boys play. Well, that little girl was in Hog Heaven! She was as bright-eyed and alert and happy as I’ve ever seen her. She almost twisted herself in pretzels trying to follow them around the room with her eyes. At one point, I picked her up to get her out of the way of the predator-ing, and she had a little hissy fit. She did NOT want to be away from those boys! So I laid her back down nearer to them, and she w...
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