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Bring in the stunt-baby!

Perhaps a year and a half ago, Maj took a class and was certified as a babysitter.  As Maj does not actually like children, her babysitting career was short-lived.  If you take into account the $80 Mark and I paid for Maj’s babysitting class, our family is about $80 in the hole as far …Bring in the stunt-baby!

    Juicy devastation

    “SHE SLOBBERED AND GRUNTED AND MADE SPIT SOUNDS AND SO OF COURSE I AM SCREAMING MY EARS ARE BLEEDING AND I MAY REQUIRE TOURNIQUETS AND OF COURSE I AM SCREAMING OF COURSE I AM SCREAMING AND REPETITION IS REQUIRED BECAUSE I AM JUST SO DISBELIEVING OF THE FACT THAT YOU DO NOT SEE THAT …Juicy devastation

    Ten-hundred degrees

    I stand with Mark in the kitchen this afternoon, “What’s this?”

    “I gave that to Kallan.  It’s an old voltage meter.”

    I pick up the small heavy box and dangle the wires and long metal probes from my fingers, “Really, babe?  This seems like a good idea?”

    “Yeah, it will be fine.  I showed …Ten-hundred degrees

    Raisin concerns

    Not so long ago, we took the girls hiking at Oneonta Gorge.

    There is water and beauty and trees and rocks and loveliness within a few minutes of parking the car, but the girls are not satisfied.  They want to scale the logjam.  A huge boulder-riddled logjam bestrides Oneonta Creek, and the only way …Raisin concerns

    Hold the mayo!

    Maj has been working on controlling her tendency to overreact to things.

    It is not actually going that well.

    “OH MY GOD, KALLAN IS BLOWING SPIT AT ME!  GIANT GLOBS OF BILLOWING SPIT!  THERE IS SPIT EVERYWHERE AND I AM SOAKED IN SPIT AND THERE IS NOWHERE IN THE HOUSE THAT IS SAFE FROM …Hold the mayo!