December 2011
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Don't Mess With The Elf On The Shelf
If you have no idea what ”The Elf on the Shelf” means you probably don’t have small children. ”The Elf on the Shelf” is a relatively new, manufactured Christmas tradition started by some brilliant marketer who was out to sucker families with small kids all over the world. The book has been so brilliantly successful they’ve turned it into an animated Holiday...
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Lunar Corona
I had never seen anything quite like it last night- rings around the moon- something I’m told is called a Lunar Corona. I snapped this photo from my iphone about 11pm Friday. It really doesn’t do it justice.
I’m still trying to figure out why it took me 39 years 23 hours to see (or perhaps notice?) my first Lunar Corona. Nice little birthday present from the Universe.
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Mom... The Joker's Dead?
Over the years I’ve had friends tell me that the NEVER allow their kids to watch TV news. Their fear? Their kids might see or hear something that isn’t appropriate, something that they, as parents, don’t want to have to explain to their impressionable children.
I totally respect that. And I too try to shield my kids from the harsh realities of our wonderful, albeit fucked up...
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My Toddler Racked Up A Big iTunes Bill
It’s not the email I wanted to find in my inbox. Two emails, specifically two receipts from iTunes, telling me that Apple has charged almost $80 dollars to my credit card for shit I didn’t even know that I had bought.
At first I thought it must be a mistake, it had to be. There was NO WAY I’d purchase game apps (one cost a whopping 40 bucks). So, I did some investigation...
WatchA powerful wind storm blew into Southern California overnight. Actually things got really insane right about as I was arriving home at midnight. That’s when the Hurricane Force winds blew out powerlines and then sparked an explosion and fire near our home.
Fearing an evacuation, I immediately started packing up essential papers, clothing, pictures and other items. What did MeHubs do?...
November 2011
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It's the thought that counts... right?
An example of what happens when you take a restroom break and leave a 2 year old unattended for 30 seconds. My boy used a step stool to raid the new loaf of bread that I had placed on the kitchen counter.
He then left a trail of bread to impress his BFFs (our doggies).
I followed the trail to our doggie’s eating area, where it appears our boy left a present for his BFFs.
It’s...
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A DISH FROM YOUR CULTURE....
I love preschool. I love that my son loves going. I love his teacher I love the kids in the class. I’m in love with my kid’s preschool.
Last Friday during dropoff, I noticed that there was a sign up sheet for a Thanksgiving Feast. Parents were asked to bring a “Dish From Your Culture” to share with the class. Now, this threw me for a loop. Hmm… a “dish...
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A lesson learned...
MeHubs likes to SIP (wear sweats in public) on Sundays. There is nothing wrong with Sippin’, I do it all the time. But I just thought we should dress up a little because it was the first time we were going to take our 3 year old to a movie together. We were aiming to make a 12:50pm showing of “Puss N Boots”. I just thought we should look nice so I asked him to change...
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Dear Mom,
Dear Mom,
This is what I think of your new “time out” game. Best of luck cleaning up the mess.
Love,
Your 2 year old Son
PS… this was on dad’s watch, so put him in the crib for a “time out”.
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BIG, PLASTIC WIENERS
My morning started early, very early. I had an appointment in Culver City at 9am. Translation- I had to get my ass up early in order to drive in some of the worst traffic LA has to offer.
Yes, traffic sucks no matter where you live, but in Los Angeles it’s something else all together. You just never know what’s going to happen on the freeway or what you will see on the freeway. ...
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A SLOW, SLEEPLESS DEATH...
My two year old is slowly killing MeHubs and me, a slow, SLEEPLESS death. It’s been 365 days+365days (I’m too tired to add together) of little to no sleep. The kid is torturing us.
Yes, we’ve tried sleep training, the Ferber method (the evil torture of crying it out), Co-sleeping… less naps, more naps… we’ve tried EVERYTHING. The kid just doesn’t like...
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MeHubs Dream Girl
My Husband likes girls with tattoos. Any kind of tattoo. Lots of tattoos. Girls with sleeves on their arms. Girls with a rosary that winds around her lower back and stomach. Girls with portraits of their dog on her leg. He really likes girls with tattoos.
I don’t have any tattoos. Not one, nada, zero, zilch. I’m a tat free zone. It’s not that I’m not against...
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Playing Defense
Playing defense is one of the toughest and one of the most critical elements of any game. But it’s also one of the most unrewarding and also most neglected aspects of sports as well.
I played basketball for almost two decades. I played it well— running the plays, passing the ball, and shooting the clutch 3 pointer with seconds to go in the quarter. But I have always had to work...
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VANITY SMURF: GAY OR METROSEXUAL?
My 3 year old son is now into watching the “Smurfs” cartoon. I’m talking the old school episodes of the “Smurfs” that are shown each morning on the Boomerang Network. This is so exciting for me because I use to watch this cartoon as a child growing up in the Northwest.
I just had an “aha moment” (PRAISE + PROPS TO OPRAH) while watching an episode of...
10 THINGS TO SAY TO FRIENDS WITHOUT KIDS
That was the LEAD story on Yahoo this morning. ’Things NOT to say to friends without kids’. ARE YOU KIDDING ME YAHOO?? Your lead story??? Anyway… it got me thinking about the 10 things you SHOULD say to friends who don’t have kids.
1) You have sex for fun. I don’t. I’m lucky if I get to kiss MEHUBS once a day. So go be a slut.
2) You get to go...
