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No, those aren’t maggots.  It’s just rice.

You would automatically assume that I was in the kitchen….but the area being scrutinized was my bathtub.  Why was there rice on the side of the bathtub?  Well, if you’ve been a mom as long as I have, you just don’t ask those questions anymore.  Sure, when you had more than four brain cells, you would have turned this into a Sherlock Holmes-worthy whodunit but these days…..maybe you just don’t want to know or even care.  You need to preserve those precious remaining brain cells for more important endeavors, such as killing them with a glass of wine at the end of the week while chatting with your best friend about nothing in particular.

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Did you know that March 8th was International Women’s Day?  Yes, even my spell checker doesn’t believe me.  It is a day set aside to celebrate the achievement of women past, present and future.  Yeah, I didn’t get the memo.  I spent it at home, doing laundry and taking care of my children.  I’m pretty sure I didn’t have shoes on for most of the day either.

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If you give a mom a cup of joe,

she might just ponder way too long why it’s called joe.  Couldn’t it be a better name?  Joe is just not very exciting and the Joes that I have known…well, let’s just say I don’t really want to be drinking a big cup of them or anything they might be oozing.

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Welcome to today’s installment of:

Poo or Chocolate?

Yes, yes once again it’s time for every parent’s favorite guessing game where we use our extraordinary powers of deduction to decide cocoa or kaka?

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I catch myself thinking sometimes about my toddler in a most un-mom like fashion.  I’ll watch her going about her toddler business, whether that is her wanting to put her shoes on before she puts any of her clothes on (undies included) or her wanting to eat everything with a spoon…chips included.  I look at her and think….if she were an adult…she’d be in the looney bin.

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