AmyD. | February 6, 2012
Katie had a late start today. Once or twice a month school doesn’t start until after 9am. On those days the girls and I run through Starbucks on the way to drop Katie off at school. The girls and I have the Starbucks routine down to a science. We actually have 2 sets of orders, [...]
Category: Love and Marriage, Stupid Husband Tricks |
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Tags: Ann Curry, matt lauer, Monday morning, starbucks, The Bob and Tom Show, The Today Show, waking up
AmyD. | January 31, 2012
Alternate post title: He Did It To Me Again. The butterfly bush (or as my husband refers to it… “that butterfly monster”) turned out to be the fastest growing, most furiously blooming plant I have ever encountered. It smells wonderful, attracts butterflies by the hundreds through the spring/summer but has to be trimmed back several [...]
Category: Gardening, Silly Rants, Stupid Husband Tricks |
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Tags: backyard antics, butterfly bush, conversations with husband, gardening, gardening disagreements
AmyD. | January 30, 2012
I turned 36 last week. Seriously, 36… and I’m just not vain enough to lie about my age. Mostly because I’m not noticing any new wrinkles or crow’s feet and I’m okay that the reason for this is simply because my face is just pudgy enough to fill them out. Gray hairs… nope. None of [...]
Category: Family Antics, Gardening, Girl Talk, Holidays, My Humiliation For Your Pleasure, Stupid Husband Tricks |
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Tags: 36th birthday, aging, birthday, birthday 2012, birthday cards, gardening, Husbands, I turned 36 this year, katie, Kids, lilac tree, Maggie, Mike
AmyD. | January 16, 2012
It’s taken many years, but I think the girls have finally beaten Mike down almost completely. Three of us in very different life stages makes for a constant, demanding, eye rolling, “if looks could kill”, screaming, “who took my gray eye liner?”, hot mess kind of life. More than once someone has joked that if [...]
Category: Love and Marriage, My Humiliation For Your Pleasure, Stupid Husband Tricks, Things That Could Get Me Killed |
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Tags: A-Christmas-Story, Bumpus hounds, Christmas tree, dad in a house of girls, menopause, pms, women
AmyD. | January 11, 2012
Maggie is 8 years old now. I cannot believe it. In fact, I am in denial so deeply that it has taken me over a week to write this post when her birthday is actually on New Year’s Day. She fell asleep early and didn’t make midnight on New Year’s Eve. The next morning we [...]
Category: Family Antics, Personally, Stupid Husband Tricks, The Art of Momming |
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Tags: banana cream pie, Billy the Exterminator, funny kids, Glenville, Glenville CA, hiking, humor, Kids, Maggie, nicknames, parenting