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Styrofoam Teeth

The girls have been eating in shifts lately.  Not a rule I imposed, but it has served to minimize the fighting between them over breakfast and getting dressed.  Do other people’s children fight as much as mine?  Please tell me they do.

Kallan generally eats first and then gets dressed, with her sister doing …Styrofoam Teeth


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    You’ll poke your eye out!

    Both girls have classmates who have taken time away from school to attend Olympic events.  Which is cool for them.  I told the girls we soooo would have been there, but what with moving and all, we just didn’t get around to buying tickets.

    Right.

    I have been watching some of the Olympics on …You’ll poke your eye out!

    Like the big pig that you are!

    We took the girls and the larger, more cooperative dog to play in the snow today.  Mt. Hood is a bright white mountainous background presence as we go about our daily business here in Oregon, and the girls have been staring longingly at its brilliant glistening snowiness.  So Mark and I promised them yesterday …Like the big pig that you are!

    Isadora Duncan in a tree

    It has been gorgeous here for the past few days, a sort of mini-spring that people warn me will soon end in a deluge of rain and mud.  They’re so serious in their warnings of impending watery doom that I feel as though I have missed an important ark memo.  Everyone else is busy …Isadora Duncan in a tree

    Waiving in Beaverton

    There’s an ad on Craigslist/Portland that keeps catching my eye:

    Get Paid to Waive a Sign in Beaverton!!

    Needed: Sign Waiver three to four days a week. 5 hour shifts. Minimum wage.

    Must be willing to work in the rain. Must pass a background check.

    That just kills me.  “Waive” a sign?

    I …Waiving in Beaverton