five… four… three… two…..

We are at T minus two hours until we leave on vacation.  You know what that means.  I talk like I’m going to keep posting whenever I get internet access, and then there’s two weeks of radio silence instead.
Well be going here to see him, then well go here and take goofy pictures next to [...]

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Random Sunday

Look!  I’m posting on the weekend!  Must be something pretty important to tear me away from the bowling/going to the park/bike riding/pizza making/cartoon watching/YAY DADDY’S HERE AND IT’S FUN TIME madness we have here from about 4pm Friday to 8pm Sunday.  Well, yes.  Yes it is. Important, that is.  I have three things to show [...]

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Prepare yourselves

For the cuteness.  First, can you please stand for the singing of our National Anthem.

(Ignore the annoying woman at the end that feels the need to repeat that last line.  “Home of the brains” kind of took her by surprise.  He skips the first part entirely in this rendition, but usually [...]

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Must learn to be more specific.

Earlier this week, I asked Miss Violet to please “Go put on park clothes” so we could… wait for it… go to the park.   She was wandering the house in princess jammies, and I asked her to get dressed.  I told her where we were going so she could pick out an appropriate outfit.  I [...]

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Great minds think alike

(Or maybe we substitute “Smartasses” for “Great minds”.  Whatever.)
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I was killing time in the NEX when I spotted it.  The funniest shirt ever.  This shirt -
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Yeah, so I never took a picture of it before gifting, and now you get the cropped, wrinkled, half turned away shot.  Whatever.  The bride is smiling, the groom is [...]

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Part 3

OCD Flower girl, or “She definitely is Joe’s daughter.”
So rehearsal day finally arrives, after a week of driving back and forth from Orlando to Tampa, going to Disneyworld, the grossest cab ride in history (yeah, I’m looking at you), “eating” dinner with the family (the three of us who had dresses to fit into [...]

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Part 2

Part 2 or Why I Could Never Be Anorexic.
First – a quick update on yesterday’s post.  About 2 hours after I posted it I got an email from Becky!  I should have posted about them last week!  They made it in one piece, and are currently staying with friends while their house gets unpacked.  I [...]

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Tales from our Trip – Part 1

Part 1 AKA The Big Goodbye -
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Violet has had little friends before.  In Little Rock she had a “best friend” – it was the other girl her age from our playgroup.  They had fun together (as much fun as toddlers can have together), but considering they didn’t really talk yet I don’t know if we [...]

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One more…

One more quick anecdote, and then I’ll get to tales from our trip.  No, really.
Jayne Violet has always planned to eventually marry her Daddy.  She dresses up as a bride and has me do the ceremony.  The fact that she’s stealing my husband in no way stops her.  In fact, she loves to taunt me [...]

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Violet Jayne – Human Tape Recorder

Violet – Daddy?  You are NOT a skeeze!  Even when my mommy says you are?  She’s wrong.  You’re not.
Joe – Oh, Mommy calls me a skeeze, huh?  When I’m not around?  Is that what she says?
Me – No, I say it to your face.
Violet – Yeah – when you’re not around she calls you a [...]

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