http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare Just another Parenting Club Blogs weblog Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:03:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en DH is back in GA.  Boo hoo.  He left on Friday and we don't yet have a plan for when we'll see each other again.  Everything we had planned for the summer kind of fell apart for a myriad of reasons but we're hoping the kids and I will be ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/alone-again/ I don't have a favorite kid.  Honest!  Ok, that isn't true, I do have favorites.  Kylie is my favorite to hang out with in the kitchen, my favorite to shop with, my favorite to watch TV with.  Macie is my favorite to work outside with, read with, and my all ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/my-favorite-kid/ Please tell me I'm not the only one.  The only one married to a guy who is whimsical and impulsive.  A guy who has a great mind, big aspirations, and no concern with what happens getting there.  A guy who is miserable when things are predictable.  Not the guy next ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/why-cant-i-be-married-to-a-normal-guy/ I hate these nights, the ones when I'm completely wiped out and can't sleep.  I doze off for a second and as soon as the feeling of sleepy bliss starts to set in, I wake up.  I drank so much water today (my new habit, sort of, just started it, ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/i-wish-i-was-sleeping/ Does anyone remember that book?  I never read it because I thought it didn't apply to me.  I thought I was impulsive (which I am, but only when shopping), didn't mind change (which I don't, as long as it's the kind in the bottom of my purse), and liked to ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/who-moved-my-cheese/ Ok, it's hitting me now.  Moving to Georgia is becoming a very real possibility.  I guess I'd tucked it away in some corner of my mind as one of those things that might happen "someday", and "someday" that would be fine.  We still don't know that it's an absolute, because ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/definitely-maybe/ What is it with my kids and "always" and "never"?  As in, "You never let us have ice cream" or "You always make us clean".  Neither, of course, is true.  Is it their "limited" vocabulary, that isn't so limited any other time?  Or childrens' sense of drama and extremes?  Anyone?  Here ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/always-and-never/ It's not everyday you can please everyone in a family of five by getting in the car, driving somewhere, and spending five hours in a town you love and hate at the same time.  But we did just that today, each of us had our own version of how the day went down and each ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/we-all-needed-today/ I have a biiiig job ahead of me today.  I'm going to be upstairs all day if thats what it takes....my goal is to reduce the amount of STUFF by half.  Good luck to me, lol.  Clothes, toys, books, junk, nothing is safe lol.  I'm armed with boxes for give ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/today-is-a-big-day/ Or, to the rest of us, caterpillars and spaghetti.  It dawned on me today when Macie caught a callapitter that I foolishly thought I'd remember all the cute ways my kids have mispronounced words over the years, and sadly, I don't.  I remember Kylie calling a rainbow a "bebo", and ... http://www.parentingclub.com/blogs/pairandaspare/callapitters-and-scgabetti/