Heard at my house this weekend

What a crazy respite weekend! With 2 – 15yr olds and a 9 yr old boy here for the weekend…  well let’s just say it was eventful. Things you might have heard me say:
“I am NOT talking to anyone until they have put their shirt back on!”
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“Uhhh, NO you CAN NOT drink the ketchup. Seriously? The [...]

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Best line evah!

“Jesus put me on this earth to tell you what to do!”
Dude, you need that written into your marriage vows
Mara ~ therapeutic foster kids are awesome!

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ADD joke

How many people with ADD (attention deficit disorder)does it take to change a light bulb?
Wanna go ride a bike?
Mara ~ best joke ever told in church by a gifted ADD pastor.

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Hmmm

A bunch of you have let me know that Bloglines is not picking up my feed… And I don’t know what to do for you..
Mara ~ wordpress ludite

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Hey! How are you stanger??

Alive! Yes I am! Thanks.
Where the fuck did December go? Dude. Awash with chocolate (6K truffles..  God I hate chocolate!) Drowning in exploding commercial 5K pasta machines….  Sooty from a wood fired brick oven… Awash in catering and cooking and orders and how I just am now HATING Christmas. Bah and Humbug! Not to mention [...]

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Kindergarten sadness

Oh the woes of junior kindergarten for my little tyke….
“Mama, why did G call me a poo poo head?  I think those are bad words and I think that is making a poor choice. “
She pauses for a minute then asks,
“Mama will Madame P give him a maturmal comsemquence (natural consequence)?”
Mara ~ my words are being reflected [...]

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Planes, hospitals and powers of attorney

Sigh. Let’s just get the sigh, and the deep breath out of the way.
I’ve written about a family member’s struggle with mental illness here. Mostly I was just bitching about how it made me feel, all the disturbing and hurtful things she had done that had led me to back away.  And now things are [...]

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Isolated crackpot?

This is a link that will become much more common in the days to come. With Obama pretty much the next president of the US, more and more whackos are going to be trying to make themselves famous.
So? Is this just the fanatic in the backwoods? Well, maybe these specific two young men are [...]

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A sea of white….

Squirt is the only child of colour in her dance class….
Mara ~  sigh………..

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Tempest in a teapot

A member of the family suffers from mental illness.  I am very sympathetic, and it breaks my heart that she has gone through so much and is often in so much pain.
But.
I have now been threatened by her. It makes me angry and defensive and I lose some of my empathy. I start thinking uncharitable [...]

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