InsomniMom

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Little sleep.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

How was that again?

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I was driving Aisling to her piano lesson today and she spent most of the twenty minute ride telling me about a boy she likes and bewailing ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

12 things I always buy at Dollar Tree

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Dollar Tree is, like, one of my favorite stores ever. Barnes & Noble is a strong contender; Ulta Beauty is definitely in the running. I ...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Signs that the Apocalypse is Upon Us

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Today I was at the laundromat washing the duvet from our bed and an absolutely riveting episode of Matlock was playing at high volume on eve...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Because I'm weak

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I don't think it speaks well for my character that I blow right past the dry cleaning establishment that's four blocks from my house...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

The Creature from the Madge Lagoon

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You just knew it wasn't all over with Madge, didn't you? I scared her off the other day with my Teacher Look, but she must have been...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Because Wonder Woman is for realz, and she is me

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Today I got home from Fishers at ten minutes 'til noon. I had exactly one hour before I had to be in yoga class at the YMCA, making my b...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Reprise and Reprisals: Madge-at-the-swimming-pool

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I'm kind of proud of that title. I flatter myself that it sounds like something Jane Austen might have come up with. Er, something with ...
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Lies your friends will tell you

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I have a confession to make. I have been known to speak in encouraging tones of bright confidence to my friends who have small chirren, tell...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

What's that you're cooking?

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When I find recipes I like on the internet , I generally scrawl them down on a piece of scrap paper, using whatever writing tool comes to ha...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Respect thy elders, and I mean NOW

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I swim five or six days a week at our local YMCA , appearing poolside in bathing suit and flip flops, toting a towel, a water bottle and som...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Menu Plan Monday

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I usually write my menu plan for the week on a piece of paper , a hard copy, menu on one side, grocery list on the other. I don't have a...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Lazy Sundays

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The best times of the year for Lazy Sundays are in the autumn and the winter. In the spring, you're so sick of the cold and snow - at l...
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Shelley
I'm a happy Catholic; a wife; a homeschooling mother of one teenage daughter and one college-aged daughter; a writer; enthusiastic crafter of countdown paper chains; a Buffy fan, a reader; a Shakespeare teacher; a literature teacher; a composition teacher; a former soap-maker; a minivan driver; an inward grump; an outward sweetie-pie; a history geek; a dog lover; a rehabilitated and repentant former thief of bandwidth; a killer of plants; a soft-hearted taker-in of strays; a reformed housekeeper; an insomniac
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