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May
9
Great Wolf Lodge WTFkery…and Happy Mother’s Day!
Posted in Connor, Lucy, vacation, wtf
7 Comments
We took a little family vacation to Great Wolf Lodge this weekend. Technically we’re still here, in fact, but I’ve pulled Mother’s Day rank this morning and am vigorously guarding our things at table. And blogging. Not that I didn’t have fun yesterday, but I went down a few too many water slides and the back is letting me know I may have overdone it a bit. Plus, I’m dry and nicely showered and we’ve had to check out, so I’m not really wanting to get back in the water. At any rate, we drove down to Richmond on Friday night to hang with my brother and his family (and they came with us to the Lodge – we shared one of those mega-suites that sleeps 8 to save a few bucks.) Saturday morning mr myn took us to Williamsburg for a bit – and showed us his old stomping…
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Apr
11
Iron Butterfly
Posted in Lucy, random
6 Comments
Friday night we tried to go out to a fancy restaurant with the kids. There are two things potentially wrong with that sentence, and I’m guessing you can probably figure out what they are. Needless to say, it did not work out overly well. It’s a total crapshoot sometimes as to whether it’s going to work out, and this time it didn’t. Part of this was probably because it wasn’t a particularly kid-friendly place, so they were slower to bring the kid’s entrees out, they didn’t have chocolate milk, and there were a lot more people nicely dressed up that we were undoubtedly interrupting. Yeah, we were *that* family. I’m sorry. 🙁 Actually, Connor was fine. Lucy was being her typical 3-yr-old Princess self. The fact that she had melted down right before we left the house should have been my sign to either abort the mission or head out…
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Feb
15
Fashionista in Training…
Posted in Lucy
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So, at some point yesterday I asked Lucy to go find something to wear. She’s only three, but she’s starting to take a great deal of pride in picking out her own clothes. For the most part, unless she picks out something really funky, I’m inclined to let it slide. (Unlike Connor, who seems to have NO idea when pants are 4 inches too short, for example. Maybe that’s a boy thing?) This is what she came up with. Seriously, all she needs is a little pair of Doc Martens, and she could go strut a catwalk somewhere. On one hand, I find it rather interesting that she can just sort of put things together like that and actually pull it off. On the other, there’s a part of me secretly weeping inside. I’m going to be in *SO* much trouble by the time she’s 16. Edited to add: And NO,…
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Jan
25
Spiderman Diarrhea and Other Things I Wish I Hadn’t Heard…
Posted in Connor, Lucy, random
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I took today off from work, simply because I needed a bit of a mental health day. I’ve got a very full plate these days, and part of that was compounded by the fact that I had to watch my younger cousin all weekend. (And Lucy was up half the night last night, and a crazy ass windstorm kept us up for the other half. Lots of waking up and wondering if the remainder of our gazebo had just blown off the deck.) Babysitting should have been fine because both my kids adore her, but with an odd-number of children and varying ages (3, 6 and 11) there was a lot of 3rd wheel action going on. As a result I didn’t get nearly as much done as I would have liked – lots of interruptions every five minutes about how who wouldn’t play with who, wailing about why so-and-so…
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Nov
27
Turkey Day Goofiness
Just a few pics from yesterday. I got stuck having to work from home today (with children), so between that and trying to NaNo, I sort of lost track of time as far as writing up a decent blog post went. So my old fallback? Post pictures! Not sure what Connor was doing here. I understand there was football going on, and I believe he also managed to run right through the screen door and completely blow it off his hinges. A moment of triumph, perhaps? Trouble, thy name is Lucy…(after her second change of clothes. Girl completely mangled one shirt and two other sets of pants playing outside). Yeah. I don’t know either.…
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