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Who needs an iphone when you got 80s magic?

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , , , , on July 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »

It took a 10-year old to show me that me and my cell phone were stuck in the Dark Ages. One day when visiting my friend Jen, I whipped my very bland Motorola phone out , and her 10-year old nephew practically laughed at me. “What is that?” he asked, pointing to my no-frills phone [...]

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My Awesome Edward Scissorhands

Posted in Mommahood, tagged , , on July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In the few days since I last wrote, Kaiden’s teenage talk has actually increased. I think he aged at least five years in the past five days. This is what he said today every time we went down a hill on our bike: “It’s GO time!” I mean, where does a 5-year old come up [...]

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Please, don’t tell me I look good

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , , on July 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

“Wow, you look like you’ve lost a ton of weight!” I hate this sentence, spoken to me this week by a woman I hadn’t seen in about a year. How am I supposed to react? Here were my initial thoughts - I could: a) Be happy because she’s paying me a complement; b) Wonder how much [...]

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My son the valley girl

Posted in Mommahood, tagged , , , on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Like, oh my god, my 5-year old is totally talking like a teenager now. I had been noticing that he was using the word ‘awesome’ a lot more every day, but I thought that was cute. I dropped him off at day camp yesterday as a normal 5-year old, and then picked him up in [...]

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Yes, Virginia, There Really is a Santa Clause – Kind Of

Posted in Mommahood, tagged , , , on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s been so long since I updated my blog, I am sure some of you have been wondering if I dropped off the face of the earth or got lost in the Alaskan wilderness. Rest easy, my dear followers. I am alive and well and back from the Land of the Midnight Sun. I had [...]

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Caterpillar Tea

Posted in Mommahood, tagged , , on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Lately, Kaiden has been into making pets of any creepy-crawly thing that crosses his path. I guess little boys are programmed to want to capture, and inevitably torture, pretty much anything they can get their hands on. His latest victim was a tiny caterpillar we found crawling up the side of the trampoline netting. As [...]

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All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned this 4th of July

Posted in Mommahood, Mountain Life, Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , , , on July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

What I learned over this 4th of July weekend: 1. I am not a boater. Something about being trapped on a 20-foot floating piece of machinery in the middle of a lake does not sit well with me. 2. Falling off your bike hurts when you are a kid, but when you are 37 it hurts [...]

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Ma Cher Sheree: You Got the Wrong Girl

Posted in Peaks & Valleys, tagged , , on July 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Ever since I posted the link to my blog on my Twitter profile, I have been getting all these invitations for sexual trysts – from, of all people, women. I would like to think that they see my profile shot and are so taken by my radiant beauty and utter sexiness that they cannot control themselves and just [...]

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