January 2011
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Walking all over Daddy
“Mom! It’s icy. Come get me!”
“You can walk yourself. Just be careful.”
My husband walked out the door behind her and saw an opportunity for cute father-daughter bonding.
“Come here, child. Stand on my shoes.”
She looked at him doubtfully.
“Come on. Get on my shoes and then I’ll walk you across the ice.”
*delighted giggle*
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Veiled Puppy
“Child! What did you do to that poor dog?”
“Nothing.”
“He’s wrapped up like a burrito.”
The dog looked at me sadly.
“Well he got on my bed and he’s not allowed in my room and I couldn’t get him to move so….”
“So you wrapped him up pink tulle?”
“Yeah.”
The dog made himself as flat as possible...
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Freaky Antiquing
The child and I enjoy going into musty, dusty antique stores as a way to kill a day. Some stores are more… well… frightening than others.
These photos were from Ellicott City, MD.
“Electric blue eye shadow is out of style? What are you talking about?”
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Well, who the hell else are you...
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The birth of a rolling pin
We turned off the cable TV a couple of years ago and I am sort of fed up with the reality shows that seem to have taken over the big networks. That leaves me PBS.
In our area, PBS has a whole channel called “Create” that is dedicated to sewing shows, This Old House-like DIY shows, and (in the evenings) cooking. If I want the child to fall asleep, I turn on the cooking shows.
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