Creativity

Posted on September 17, 2006 by The Daring One

I think you’ll enjoy this awesome talk on children and education if you have an interest in um…children or education.

Speaking of creativity, I have evidence of ballerina class.  Please don’t look at these pictures unless you’re prepared to yorch from the cuteness.  Please also bear in mind that these pictures were taken through a small dirty window using digital zoom, the window only made dirtier by my head pressed up against the glass.  Thanks to the fabulous Kimbo for watching destructo-Magoo so I could enjoy the class.

ballet is serious  creative movement with scarves the I-am-smiling-now smile tapping for joyinto position with taps removing of the taps for the mental health of all adults concerned

Someone is so witty and fabulous on the phone that my family was late for our most recent class.  Must not speak to Jeana on Ballerina day.  Must not speak to Jeana on Ballerina day.

reasons: the man I fell in love with 5 years ago who has carried me through my hard times

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Long Range Clapper-Finder

Posted on September 12, 2006 by The Daring One

I am a loser.  I lose things.  Small things, large things.  It doesn’t matter.  I can frequently be found asking people if they’ve seen my keys, my phone, my van, my mind. 

I can keep track of most anything on my Palm.  So maybe I should write down the location of all my important items at any given time in my PDA.  Then I’d just have to find that and I’d have the map to unlock my own personal universe of misplaced somethings. Continue reading →

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Tip Tuesday — Great “Pics”

Posted on September 12, 2006 by The Daring One

I hate it when people type “pic” or “pics”.  I just thought you should know.  Pictures, photos, shots, anything but “pic”?  I don’t know why that abbreviation grates on me.  It just does.  I’ve tried it a few times.  It seemed like a cool thing to type but once I saw it there on the screen, knowing it had come from my keyboard, I was sickened by the result. Continue reading →

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Not that Innocent

Posted on September 11, 2006 by The Daring One

How do I regain innocence in a world where ignorance is no longer an option? 

My motherhood is my renewed connection with all that is good in the world, and my magnifying glass over all that is frightening and wrong.  My children are the hope that makes tomorrow unquestionably worthwhile.

I find it fitting that my post today is over at Parenting, a company based out of New York City.

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I Hate Goodbyes — A Tree Grows In Brooklyn — Final Chapters

Posted on September 10, 2006 by The Daring One

Francie and her family close the door on me, just like that?  What gives?  Where’s book two?  A Tree Grows In Brooklyn — the Blog? Continue reading →

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Never Leave Your Kids Alone with a Nut

Posted on September 7, 2006 by The Daring One

It could kill them.

Laylee has learned to shell her own peanuts by chewing the shell into tiny shards, spitting it all over my counter and then eating half of the peanut and dropping the other half on the ground.

I know very well from my pediatrician’s advice and the King James version of What to Expect that Magoo shouldest not cometh in contact with a nut or a nut product until he reacheth the age of two, lest he become a human incendiary device and explodeth into a firebomb of allergenic destruction and woe be unto him.  I think that’s almost a direct quote from the book. Continue reading →

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