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Distracted Mommy: Meeting Dewey
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Monday, September 24, 2012. Meet the newest member of our family: Dewey the Cat. Dewey was rescued as a tiny kitten by my brother-in-law, a veterinarian, and his staff. They found him in a field behind their public library (thus the name, for the Dewey Decimal system), covered in fleas and barely alive. What a lucky boy Dewey is! For several weeks, he was cared for as a resident cat at the State Road Animal Hospital. In the end, their ultimate meeting was quite peaceable. Sure, Dewey cowered, backing...
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Distracted Mommy: I Hate Summer (And Other Lies I Tell Myself)
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012. I Hate Summer (And Other Lies I Tell Myself). As seen on the Elmhurst Patch. School gets out on May 29th in Elmhurst. For heaven’s sake, it won’t even be June yet, and our kids will be lolling around in their pajamas at 10 am trying to figure out if they want to watch yet another episode of SpongeBob, or invite the entire neighborhood over for a water fight. Excuse me. I mean an. What are your kids doing for summer vacation? I’m kidding. (No I’m not.). 1 I hate summer. Yeah, righ...
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Distracted Mommy: September 2012
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Monday, September 24, 2012. Meet the newest member of our family: Dewey the Cat. Dewey was rescued as a tiny kitten by my brother-in-law, a veterinarian, and his staff. They found him in a field behind their public library (thus the name, for the Dewey Decimal system), covered in fleas and barely alive. What a lucky boy Dewey is! For several weeks, he was cared for as a resident cat at the State Road Animal Hospital. In the end, their ultimate meeting was quite peaceable. Sure, Dewey cowered, backing...
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Distracted Mommy: Summer Pages
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Saturday, June 16, 2012. Almost two years ago to the day, I wrote this post. The days of extreme parental supervision might be behind us, at least at the pool. My husband and I sat still, reading our books, lazily turning pages while our kids went off and did their thing. He is reading Frank McCourt's Teacher Man. A searingly funny and poignant memoir of the Irish-born Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who taught English at various New York public high schools before penning his famous book, Angela's Ashes.
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Distracted Mommy: November 2012
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Friday, November 9, 2012. The cherries were ripe earlier in the summer, but I won't forget the magical afternoon my family and I spent under my parents' cherry tree in Wisconsin. Even with the birds having a feast, there were plenty of bright red tart cherries to make pies and cobbler. Yum! If I took a picture today of what my harvest looks like, it would be a virtual field of kale. I have so much kale in my back yard garden! Links to this post. Labels: November Photo Challenge. Photo by Reese, age 8.
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Distracted Mommy: November Photo Challenge
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Monday, November 5, 2012. November is not quite the month full of eye candy that October is. Things are getting brown and dull around here, and there are a lot of cloudy, sunless days. My blog has been dormant, and I'm trying to break myself out of the funk. Lucky for me, I found DeBie Hive. A great blog—written by a mother of four living in Colorado. This month, she has a 30 Day Holiday Photo Challenge. And I'm jumping on the bandwagon. Labels: November Photo Challenge. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Distracted Mommy: Day 8: Harvest
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Friday, November 9, 2012. The cherries were ripe earlier in the summer, but I won't forget the magical afternoon my family and I spent under my parents' cherry tree in Wisconsin. Even with the birds having a feast, there were plenty of bright red tart cherries to make pies and cobbler. Yum! If I took a picture today of what my harvest looks like, it would be a virtual field of kale. I have so much kale in my back yard garden! Labels: November Photo Challenge. February 28, 2014 at 9:58 AM. We missed churc...
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Distracted Mommy: Fit to Be Fried: A Guide to Stress Eating
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Fit to Be Fried: A Guide to Stress Eating. When it feels like the walls are closing in, nothing pushes out said walls—and the waistline—like some good old-fashioned stress eating. I sincerely hope I'm not alone in this because, well, misery loves company. Recently, I received an invitation to a wine-tasting party. The invitation said something like "Sample Appetizers Perfectly Paired with Premium Wines from Selected Regions …". It sounds so classy, doesn't it? White Castle Slider...
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Distracted Mommy: Day 7: Water
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012. After I picked up my son from school, he asked if he could borrow my camera. The two of us went to our back yard, where a gentle rain had been falling. It was quiet outside, and we both watched water droplets as they slowly slid down leaves, or hung in suspended animation off of our patio furniture. Photo by Reese, age 8. Photo by Distracted Mommy. I think most people would say they don't like waiting. We all want everything nownownownownownow. Labels: November Photo Challenge.
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Distracted Mommy: The Best Worst Day
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Monday, June 28, 2010. The Best Worst Day. It was a rough day deep in the trenches of motherhood, my friends. If I heard, "It's not fair! Once, I heard it a hundred times. We had more than our share of tantrums today. Crabbiness abounded. And that includes Mommy. Nothing was going right today. In any event, their trip to the pool got me thinking: why wave the white flag on this day? Why let it go out with a whimper? No, it's mine! From then on, the worst day instantly transformed to the best day. I d...
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