Pirates!
Once again, I find that I’ve got NOTHING to share with you. Or, really, plenty to share with you, but no way to put any of it into words.
Except for “ARGH!”
Because after the last two weeks of dealing with sick children, and having a nice bout of stomach flu myself, I’m drained.
SO, it’s your lucky day, once again.
Comments are open for hijacking, or, as the case may be, pirating.
In case you haven’t been around these parts when comments have been open to you, you can check out previous examples here and here.
The rules are simple:
Leave a comment, as long as you’d like, about whatever you’d like. Personal attacks will be deleted. I’m pretty lenient, but I do have final say. Keep that in mind. Play nice.
Okay….GO!
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Cheryl on 24 May 2009 at 6:43 pm #
Can you tell I have 2 small children when I saw your post topic I thought of the Backyardigans and started singing the Pirate song?!?! “Argh! Argh! Argh! A pirate, a pirate, a pirate says ARGH!!!!”
Random enough!?
Cheryls last blog post..Why do you want to be a parent??
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Issa on 24 May 2009 at 6:43 pm #
DO I get to be first? Dude, I totally rock. I mean I mostly get tired of seeing people say FIRST in comments, but today, I’m totally into it.
FIRST.!!!!!!!
So, now what do I win? Where’s Johnny Depp? I heard a rumor that he was here. Johnny call me. I luvs you.
Issas last blog post..Blast from the past
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Issa on 24 May 2009 at 6:46 pm #
hmpfr. I was second, not first. Ah, well dang it.
But um, I still win Johnny right? No? Meghan help a girl out here.
Okay, so my complaint of the night is that I drank all the wine last night and forgot to go buy more. Yes, I am complaining about myself. I should ground myself, but that seems counter-productive.
Issas last blog post..Blast from the past
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Alison-Mountain Momma on 24 May 2009 at 7:20 pm #
I saw your topic pop up on Twitter and was so excited because I LOVE Pirate stories and Pirate jokes!!
You know what I want to talk about PAtrick Swayze and how friggin’ HOT he was in Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse!! YUM-O! He’s in some movie on Hallmark Channel now…no clue what it is but he looks good!
LOVE HIM!
Love Pirates, too!
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pgoodness on 24 May 2009 at 7:21 pm #
My new favorite drink (Amaretto & Simply Lemonade) makes me SLEEPY. That is totally unfair!!! Aside from people doing shots with red bull chasers, why hasn’t anyone come up with a seriously energy boosting alcoholic drink?? Do I really have to go back to SoCo and Mt. Dew, ala High school???
Wow,that makes me sound like some kind of drunk, when really, I can’t even remember my last buzz….
Oh, and I’m kinda sad I didn’t pull the trigger and just decide to go to Blogher this year. I want to meet people, even though I am the suckiest small-talker ever!!
Sure hope your family is feeling better soon!!
pgoodnesss last blog post..Wordless(-ish) Wednesday
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Meghan Reply:
May 24th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
On our honeymoon, in Venezuela of all places, I discovered Orange Juice and Amaretto. SO DAMN GOOD. And dammit that I don’t have either right now.
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Ben on 24 May 2009 at 7:33 pm #
Ok so what’s the deal here? We’re writing your posts for you now?
Sound like you’re the pirate. Good racket though.
Ok so I’m a long time reader (6 weeks is a long time, right?) first time commentor and I just wanted to let you know that while I like your blog I really expected more wine and bad parenting stories. Can we get more of those?
Oh and more bean dip, ’cause I’m out
Ok so to sum up more inebreation, more bad parenting, more dip. Oh and more explosions. Those are cool.
(See what happens when I get more than 140 characters?)
Bens last blog post..Golden Boy and The Bug
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Della on 24 May 2009 at 7:38 pm #
Backyardigans FTW. My toddler’s favorite TV show, meaning, the only thing he is actually interested in. When the theme song comes on, he runs over to that side of his playpen, his face lights up, and he rocks back and forth, “dancing” to the song. Our favorite episode is Secret Mission ( with “Shhh, shhh… secret; Shhh, shhh… secret agent” and the laser limbo song).
Do you like books? http://www.papervision3d.org/demos/panorama/ This is pretty darn cool.
I was going to post more but I got distracted and now I need to go to bed.
for something to do, check out
http://www.cuteoverload.com
http://www.notalwaysright.com and
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/
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Patty on 24 May 2009 at 7:50 pm #
Interesting post today, opening it up to us! Cool, but then DAMN the pressure is on! So this is my first comment on your blog, just started following you recently on twitter and on your blog! You seem totally cool and I have felt so bad for all of your sickies at home, seen every pic on twitter! Anyways, do you really read all of the comments here? Just curious, cuz I’m thinking they really start adding up after awhile! Anyways, I’ll drink (WINE, of course!) to your families health tonight! TTFN!, er, I mean AY Matey!!
Pattys last blog post..It has begun!
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Meghan Reply:
May 24th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Patty – I DO read them all. Especially while I’ve got MY glass of wine and my kids are in the bath. Case in point. xoxo
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anymommy on 24 May 2009 at 7:51 pm #
Well, hi there, I’ve been following your illnesses and hoping you all feel better while simultaneously being a tiny bit grateful that we can’t hang out and have playdates – because if we could, I would stalk you a little and hope that you’d be my friend and drink wine with me while our kids played, which means I would totally have gotten whatever you all had.
Pgoodness is not the suckiest small-talker ever. That would be me. I’m not even very good at twitter or DM or chat.
Tonight is lovely. I have a grande decaf mocha, I just took a shower, the kids are asleep and it is honest to goodness genuine bo-ni-fideeee warm in my house (without heat running). Your other commenters now think I am the most boring person ever, but that is so exciting in the arctic tundra.
Finally, I have hard core Braxton -Hicks contractions this week and it’s so exciting. But, I don’t get it, nature. Why can these contractions be so strong and so non-painful and the real things have to be horrid and vomit-inducing? Did the cervix need nerves, really? I think the human race might have survived less pain in labor. Just a thought from a frequent-user.
That is some significant hijacking. I’m out of here! Love you, Meghan.
anymommys last blog post..Cusp
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Meghan Reply:
May 24th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Holy Crap, woman. How far along ARE YOU now? Where has all the time gone? And oh, if only we lived close to each other. We could totally drink wine and watch our kids play ON A REGULAR BASIS. Sigh.
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Meghan Reply:
May 24th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
OH! And also?! I know you’ll appreciate that I’m typing all this from your favorite spot…
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TheMommyTsunami on 24 May 2009 at 7:56 pm #
Hi.
I’ve been reading your blog for a few weeks now. You, Heather’s, Velveteen Mind’s, MooshinIndy’s…
All these moms have inspired me, cuz, well, even though I live in a somewhat busy ‘burb south of Chicago, I feel like a lonely working mama with no one to reach out to in sad/angry/insane/happy moments of motherhood.
Now, I have started blogging, too. And tweeting.
But, now I feel like I am talking to space.
Any words of encouragement/inspiration/wisdom for a new blogging mommy?
I mean, hey, since I can hi-jack this comment section, the equivalent of a highway billboard on a busy interstate???
Thanks!
TheMommyTsunamis last blog post..My House is STILL a MESS? or, Why my house will never be clean.
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Meghan Reply:
May 25th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
MommyTsunami: Words of inspiration? You’ve come to the wrong place…heh. Just have fun, don’t be afraid to join in the discussion. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to. :0)
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Jennifer on 24 May 2009 at 8:22 pm #
I just lost my first comment. I think it was so boring that the computer swallowed it.
Been following you on Twitter for a couple of months now so I’m pretty up-to-date with the gnarly illnesses that have plauged your poor family over the past week. You do a great job of keeping your sense of humor! I am so glad you’re all on the mend. The pics were too cute (in that sad, awwww kind of way).
My biggest beef of the day is that it’s Memorial Day Weekend and FREEZING in SF (Arggh!). The sun hasn’t even peeked out in 2+ days (Blimey!). We spent most of the day holed up in our apt. with our 2-year old (who was surpisingly cheery which I’m totally grateful for). But, being from the East Coast, it still hurts.
I even resorted to a bad Lifetime movie with Jacklyn Smith which was surprisingly entertaining (Shiver me timbers!).
Now the kid’s in bed, the dinner’s been consumed, the dishes are done, the laundry is in the dryer…and I am going to go cozy up with Me hearties and maybe some more bad television.
Yo-ho-ho and maybe I’ll see you at BlogHer.
Thanks for inspiring a non-commenter to comment.
Jennifers last blog post..Daddy’s Girl
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Meghan Reply:
May 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Jennifer- It’s been cold and icky down here too. The sun finally peeked through at about 1, but it’s still breezy and not so warm. I’m BUMMED. My husband’s probably not, though, since HE’S been stricken with the crap we all had. OH WELL.
I’ve got a beer, so it’s all good on my end.
Hope to see you at BlogHer. Don’t be afraid to attack me if you see me. I enjoy that.
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Jennifer on 24 May 2009 at 8:25 pm #
Um, yah, and the word in that last post would be “plagued”. Geez. You’d never know I work in publishing.
Get some rest!
Jennifers last blog post..Daddy’s Girl
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Headless Mom on 24 May 2009 at 8:38 pm #
Only chiming in to say hi and I can’t wait to see you!
Oh, and that I had the worst hangover this morning. Seriously? Thank God I don’t do that more often.
Headless Moms last blog post..My Spring Comforter
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Overflowing Brain (Katie) on 24 May 2009 at 8:48 pm #
I’m moving in a week back to Southern California (where I’m originally from!) starting graduate school while my husband starts his residency. And I’m petrified.
How do you make new friends at 26 years old? Especially when your grad program has a median age of 23. Those are 3 significant years, trust me. 3 years of having an income, getting married and being a full fledged, independent adult.
And dude, why can’t this house pack it’s freaking self? Going from 3 bedrooms to 1 is especially frustrating, and is only made worse by a several day old insanely painful headache.
Hi, I hijacked your comments to bitch. Because I don’t do enough of it on my own blog.
Overflowing Brain (Katie)s last blog post..A glimpse into our lives…
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Meghan Reply:
May 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Katie- Moving to Southern CA?! YAY! But boo for having to make new friends. That’s the worst. That’s also what the internet is for…where are you going to be? I’m SURE you can find some interweb peeps to meet! Good luck packing!
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DE Heather on 24 May 2009 at 9:08 pm #
Dear Hubby-how fucking hard is it to call me BEFORE you stop somewhere on the way home from work. I will never tell you that you can’t go. Well I can’t say never, but it would be rare. But just give me the common courtesy of calling before you get there, because when you call me from their home number you are so busted. And also, when I ask you to come home soon, I really want to see you as we haven’t seen much of each other this week, the answer “Yeah, I’ll see how it goes.” Is NEVER acceptable. And then bitching at me when you get home because I am pissed, telling me I should be a bigger person. Well, it still isn’t getting you any closer to me being my nice, cool, rational self. Also asking me if I’m on my period or PMS’ing-not helpful. Don’t get all pissy with me telling me how ackward it will be to talk to me about how you really should come home will be when you are already there. Because Hello!?!? We went over this already-Call before you fucking get there.
Okay, I think I feel better now. Hopefully you all feel better too. xoxo
DE Heathers last blog post..Haiku Friday-Stand Up for Workers Edition
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Amber on 25 May 2009 at 4:48 am #
Ok, so I’ve been following you on Twitter and think you’re pretty damn funny, plus you have my love for wine and all so you can’t go wrong there!
Not much else to say, except I hope you and your little ones have kicked the bug’s ass that has plagued you guys for so long! Speaking of…my glass is empty
Ambers last blog post..Not Me Monday
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Meghan Reply:
May 25th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Amber- Thanks! Cheers!
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Z on 25 May 2009 at 5:09 am #
This whole “happens to you = happens to me” thing? Gotta stop. Because now I’M sick, and I just don’t do sick very well. At all. I spent the majority of this weekend in bed, going through waaaay too many boxes of tissues. I only managed to drag myself out for the afternoon to see my college roomie, who I never get to see enough of, which was GREAT, except then I was laid back up in bed for the next, oh, 36 hours. I am out now, at work, but can already feel my bed calling to me. Because the whole headache-runny nose-sore throat-fever-chills and aches-inability to hear due to snot-filled ear canals thing? Isn’t so work-conducive. Blech.
Oh, and yes. I am at work on Memorial Day. While sick. The life of a graduate student? NOT glamorous. AT ALL. (As if the whole mountains of tissues thing wasn’t enough of an indication of that)
Zs last blog post..s.i.c.k.
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Rawr and grr.... on 25 May 2009 at 5:13 am #
Let’s just say that I’ll be doing a little room 704 type review on a whip and handcuffs. Only under a secret alias. Somewhere secret on the internet.
And now only you know about it.
YOU’RE WELCOME.
Rawr and grr….s last blog post..moosh at indy 500.
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Debby on 25 May 2009 at 7:42 am #
Okay, I think that Jennifer was pretty funny. So many great comments and here I am wondering if my brain was hijacked by the pirates because I have nothing to say. Especially not anything funny! Feel better soon because I love reading you.
Debbys last blog post..My puppy is stoned ……
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Issa on 25 May 2009 at 8:00 am #
I’d like to register a complaint please. See it’s been raining for pretty much the entire weekend and if it doesn’t stop soon, I’m liable to murder my entire family.
Can you help a girl out?
Issas last blog post..Blast from the past
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Becky on 25 May 2009 at 9:53 am #
Just noticed that my SIL found the one sentence in the blog I wrote referencing the “help I’d arranged for The Daver’s trip to London was going to flake on me.” She was supposed to be the flaky help. And now? I don’t know.
Is it so obvious that I am a people pleaser?
And why am I so obsessed with trying Sprinkles cupcakes when I come out to see you guys? BECAUSE I AM.
Obsessed, I mean.
Beckys last blog post..In Memorium
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Meghan Reply:
May 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Becky- Her seeing that you thought she was going to flake made her flake? That’s ironic. And awesome. But not for you. Just for the rest of us.
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Quart on 25 May 2009 at 10:14 am #
I need someone to give me a good, easy Mexican food recipe that goes with beer. Because I have a growler of Sweetwater Crazy Jackass Ale in my fridge and I need something to eat with it. (Do some people decide what they’re drinking based on what they’re eating? Weird). Any ideas?
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Quart on 25 May 2009 at 10:15 am #
. . . besides AA, I mean?
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Yo on 25 May 2009 at 1:57 pm #
dear people getting water behind me:
yes, i know i have two 3-gallon jugs to fill. you have a huge 5-gallon jug to fill. or you have 8 single gallon jugs to fill. i was here first. i’m filling both my jugs (heh), and would appreciate it if you didn’t keep trying to get in my line of sight. i SEE you. i know you’re waiting. back off, please. it’s only going to make me go slower.
thank you,
yo
dear pms:
i thought you were only supposed to hang around before or during my period. am i turning into a crazy B, or is every week a PMS week?
eff off,
yo
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perksofbeingme on 25 May 2009 at 6:00 pm #
I can’t write this on my own blog so I’m writing it here. I can’t begin to say how thankful I am for everyone posting comments on my VU post. the nights are still really hard and when people ask how I am, I feel bad/guilty if I say that I’m upset or having a hard night, so I lie and say everything’s fine. I mean overall, yes everything is fine. I’ll survive, but sometimes it sucks and it hurts. And that’s usually at night when I’m tired but can’t go to sleep. I feel as if I’m a burden to people if I share any part of this with them. I even feel guilty talking to my therapist. I just want everything to be ok.
I’ve had a few nanny offers, and I’ve had one in SC (with a family I know and love- the wife is the person I trusted enough to tell her myself about it- by sending her the link) and it’ll get me away from him (and to a safe place with someone who knows) but I’ll still be able to e near my family. I’m worried that while I want to stay close, that maybe it’s not the best thing for me. I’m just really scared to be disowned by my family when I leave. They have started to express their opinion that I’m stupid for wanting to move/being selfish in this move. I want to get away but I’m scared to go someplace where I know no one. I just wish I knew what to do. I just wish I knew what the right answer is.
Onto less depressing things: how are you feeling? Better I hope.
perksofbeingmes last blog post..BlogHer 2009 Advice for a Newbie
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Casey on 25 May 2009 at 6:36 pm #
I made pumpkin whoopie pies for the first time today, and needed maple syrup to concoct a delicious filling. My mother-in-law, visiting for the long weekend, offered to drop into the grocery store for me on her way to the hardware store.
Great!
She came back with pancake syrup.
Not so great.
My husband says it’s my bad for not being explicit. I hope my kids defend me like that one day.
Caseys last blog post..Rejected! Part One
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Andrea's Sweet Life on 25 May 2009 at 9:16 pm #
Took me awhile to come up with something, but here we go:
Nothing like my dad tagging a photo of my saddlebags hanging out of my bikini on facebook to get me motivated to start working out again.
Oh.my.gawd, there’s a REASON I don’t look at my rear end in the mirror! I gotta cut back on the ice cream.
Andrea’s Sweet Lifes last blog post..Dust and Dirt
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Rachael on 25 May 2009 at 9:55 pm #
A pirate walks into a bar, and the barkeep says “Excuse me, cap’n, but did you know that you’ve got your ship’s wheel stuck in your pantaloons?”
“Aye,” says the pirate, “that thing be drivin’ me nuts! Aaargh!”
Rachaels last blog post..Memorial Day: My Thanks
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Tricia on 26 May 2009 at 9:55 am #
This is my public service announcement: Ahem…
I have discovered through first hand experienc that some things are best left in High School: Bartles & James winecoolers are one of them and are currently at the top of my list. Even if your hubby is being nice and you have no other booze (travesty!), JUST SAY NO! Your stomach at 1:30 am will thank you.
The end
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nic @mybottlesup on 26 May 2009 at 11:09 am #
come to the east coast please. let’s hang. you have a sister over here, near me… i’m sure you two need the hang time as well.
i wanna hang… from a tree… with you… and me….
that’s all.
nic @mybottlesups last blog post..learning curve
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Mecca on 26 May 2009 at 12:47 pm #
I found your blog, loved it, decided to start one myself. I don’t have the balls yet to tell anyone I actually know. You inspired me – thanks!
Meccas last blog post..Yard of the Month Quest
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Joe @ IrrationalDad on 26 May 2009 at 7:10 pm #
I’m suffering from the blogger’s equivalent to writer’s block. There are plenty of things for me to blog about, and plenty of things that I WANT to blog about…. but I just can’t find the words. Please tell me this will pass…. please.
Joe @ IrrationalDads last blog post..Got to keep on movin’
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Insta-Mom on 27 May 2009 at 1:52 pm #
Hi. I love you.
That is all.
*MWAH*
Insta-Moms last blog post..The first test I’m glad I failed
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Jodee on 28 May 2009 at 7:16 am #
I recently went on our first family mini vacation 3 nights 4 days with two kids 3 and 1. And I never realized how exhausted vacation could be with kids. Being in one hotel room they don’t go to sleep until you go to sleep and seeing as I did not want to go to sleep at 8 the kids went to sleep late…So I have been recovering this week from our vacation. But it sure was fun.
By the way I hope you and your dear babies feel better soon. I am so sorry those nasty stomach bugs can so throw you for a loop!..
Jodees last blog post..Our Trip….
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Marinka on 28 May 2009 at 12:48 pm #
I love when someone posts “FIRST” and they’re totally not first. Hi, Issa!
44th!
Marinkas last blog post..Internet Safety
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Undomestic Diva on 28 May 2009 at 1:35 pm #
I would like to sell my husband. Can I do that here?
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nic @mybottlesup on 28 May 2009 at 3:09 pm #
oh wait… i second what Undomestic Diva says.
nic @mybottlesups last blog post..effing angry teenager!
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Midwestmommy on 28 May 2009 at 6:25 pm #
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Midwestmommys last blog post..Oh there’s a difference alright!
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Tasha on 29 May 2009 at 9:30 am #
I have been reading your blog for about a month now and I love it. It’s nice to be able to read someone’s blog who has a regular life and deals with some of the same things with their kids as I do.
Tashas last blog post..5th Birthday party
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melissa on 29 May 2009 at 12:23 pm #
so I thought I’d finally comment considering I’ve been reading your blog for the past 2 months. I think you are hilarious and started (stalking) following you on twitter. I’m not sure what took me so long – I jumped over from Heather’s which I found May last year when I was preggers and googling clots, pregnancy etc from my own “abnormal ultrasound”
anywho, me loves me some pirates (J Depp to be specific) but more so …I love me some captain & coke. Tonight however I’m going to put my teething baby to bed early (30 year old, I mean 9 year old is going to a sleepover) and drink a bottle of wine while making my man sit through a variety of movies of my choosing.
Any suggestions???? on the wine (thinking of going with white tonight) or the movies? By the way, love the hair cut (twitter – bostonmama79) – sigh…wish I could rock a short cut
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jeannine on 29 May 2009 at 6:12 pm #
my favorite backyardigans episode is the new one that is a take-off on Robin hood.
the end.
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