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My oldest daughter was promoted from 8th grade to high school this past week.  I have no idea how that happened.  Just the other day she was screaming bloody murder on my chest when she was having the nightly screamies as a newborn.  She earned a medal for having between a 3.8 and 4.0 GPA.  [...]

Where we live there is a chain of sporting goods stores called Chick’s.  Where we used to live there was a sporting good stores called Dick’s.  Recently Dick’s bought out Chick’s… let’s hear it for Chick’s with Dick’s! Anyway. Today just before I went into Petsmart and got suckered into a 20 gallon starter aquarium, [...]

Yesterday’s post was over the new Van’s high tops my son refuses to wear.  He’d much prefer the standard Vans slip-ons with checkboard print fabric and wears those all the time.  We went to the beach for family day since the temperature was in the 80s at the beach (earthquake and fire weather) and the [...]

Just a day after telling the story about my son narrowly escaping a serious punishment for mistaken identity, I can safely report that the child who inspired the remake of The Omen is back. A while back he suckered me into buying some rad skater shoes (glorified Vans high tops) with his sweetness. He’s yet [...]

Before I picked up my kids from school I dashed into a boutique to see if there was something I could buy to wear for a night out.  While in the boutique my phone rings, interrupting my self-pity over having fat arms that don’t fit into any of the shirts I’ve picked or the sudden [...]