Backwards and Forwards

Hey, guess what y’all?  It’s December 31st.  You know what that means:  time for Mox’s annual not-resolutions! 
1.  Eat better chocolate
2.  Get regular massages
So far, so good.  I believe in making promises to yourself that you can keep. 
Goals for 2008:
3.  New furniture. 
4.  Sell more than I buy on eBay. 
5.  Save more money out of each paycheck. 
6.  [...]

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And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again…..

A rare Sunday post from me, folks. 
So next weekend, my husband and I are taking a little trip, just the two of us, to a warm and beachy location.  My parents are going to attempt to remember what it’s like to have to care for a six-year-old who needs to get up early and go [...]

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Deep in the land of blah

Nothing like the ol’ post-holiday letdown to jolt you back into reality. 
On Christmas evening, I started coming down with a cold.  Right now my head feels like a champagne cork, dense and under pressure. 
I do believe Spawn was pleased with the haul that Santa brought.  The kid has hardly looked up from the Leapster in [...]

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My true love gave to me…

… a 20″ LCD HD TV.  With an integrated DVD. 
My God.  We are now a two-TV family. 
– Mox

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Wishing you a Merry Christmas through gritted teeth.

The bad news is, my email is still down. 
The good news is, it’s nothing I’ve done. 
The bad news is, our IT guy can’t fix it because it’s got something to do (he thinks) with our ISP. 
And we’ve got a four-day weekend ahead of us. 
Oh joy. 
So hey!  How about some pictures? 

Our Christmas tree.  Waiting for the [...]

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It’s little things.

When I was a kid, my dad’s mom would sometimes cook supper in a pressure cooker.  Now, I wouldn’t know where to start with a pressure cooker, but that little woman could whip up some vittles with that thing.  She always cautioned me to stay out of the kitchen when she was using it, in [...]

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I like simple gifts.

Behold, my new built-in, custom made bookcases.  Built by my 72-year-old father, who was bored one day after Thanksgiving and decided he’d make me a Christmas gift. 

My dad gives good gifts, no? 
– Mox

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Monkey See Monkey Do

Every now and then, I get undeniable proof that I am doing at least part of this parenting thing right. 
Last night, Spawn and I took advantage of the fact that my husband was out of town and we went shopping for Spawn’s Christmas gift to him.  I had already seen it in the Target circular [...]

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Playing tennis with myself

I get a lot of questions from people who know both me and my husband, questions along the line of “how do you deal with him?”  Because he’s pretty intense.  And because of his intensity I get to be viewed as the laid-back one in the relationship, though the people who know me best know [...]

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It is well with my soul.

Amazing how I can be so curmudgeonly with my family about Christmas gifts and yet so free-spending with a total stranger. 
I just delivered $300 worth of Christmas gifts to my church, to go to a pair of sisters my mother and I “adopted” for Christmas.  These two girls didn’t ask for any toys.  Now, I [...]

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