From the monthly archives:

February 2008

The grass is (getting) greener…

February 17, 2008

This week was like:

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Framing the big picture…

February 16, 2008

These are works from Hans Jean, Jean Dubuffet and Meret Oppenheim that I borrowed from MoMA.

They have inspired me. If people are willing to pay a lot of money for art that looks like this, why am I not capitalizing on what I have at home? I have budding Picassos whose art I can [...]

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Trying to put my best foot forward…

February 15, 2008

Yeah! It’s fight the frump Friday with Fussy!

I am really bad about nail polish. I love it, but am not very coordinated. I have found that my skills are only useful on my feet. When I attempt painting my fingernails, I am fine for 5 and then things go messingly awry. [...]

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This is how a house full of boys celebrate Valentine's Day…

February 14, 2008

When blog-Stedman shops unsupervised he brings home things like this:and this:and this:and every once in awhile, this:
And now for a story entitled, “My son thinks he was born to Martha Stewart”:Last year Ryan was in Kindergarten. I was an attentive, but somewhat clueless first time Kindergarten mom. It occurred to me about 30 [...]

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Something for everyone Wednesday…

February 13, 2008

I thought this post was really funny. It made me laugh out loud…coffee through nose kinda funny.***Mommy disclaimer: I have given birth 3 times. I have received an epidural 3 times. Within 5 minutes of my first pre-natal visit with my first pregnancy I had been reassured by my doctor [...]

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Googling my life away…

February 12, 2008

A couple of years ago I was asked to introduce my mother-in-law at a meeting. At the time she was the national president for a medical organization. To get my facts straight in non-family related areas, I googled her name. I found articles about her. I found articles she wrote. [...]

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Monday morning potluck, low blood sugar edition…

February 11, 2008

Hey it is potluck time!

We have a generous food donation of cake mix doughnuts by Meg for which I am very grateful. I am contributing a glass of fresh filtered tap water with ice which is all I am supposed to have until after the blood draw of an insurance physical this morning…ugh…after [...]

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Looking through rose (and other) colored glass…

February 10, 2008

The looking glass:

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Coronation of the new king of the hill…

February 9, 2008

Yesterday afternoon we had some friends over to play. The 4 older kids seemed very busy for quite awhile (ages 4-6) tethering dog leashes, random pieces of string and various sand toys to our backyard playset. After awhile I noticed that they were also sneaking into the house to get extra pacifiers from [...]

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How does my butt look now?

February 8, 2008

Oh how the stars have aligned today perfectly for me to have anything something cohesive to blog.

January 1, 2008: I write new year’s resolutions to increase sightings of Snazzy Holly. 1 week ago: I arranged for a pick up of my crap used items by the Salvation Army. Yesterday: I watched [...]

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Book drive…

February 7, 2008

All during Illness watch 2008 here at the Nirvana Reid complained that we hadn’t been to the library “forever…”.

So not wanting to deprive the child, yesterday we took our first trip out of the house in 8 days and stopped by our local branch.
The boys quickly made their way to the ONLY SHELF IN [...]

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