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Really, CNN? That’s your top story?

by GeekMom on November 4, 2009

This is what I saw when I checked my CNN headlines widget a few minutes ago:

Did you see the headline for the Top Story? “Jessica Simpson finds a bosom buddy…”

Oh. My. Goodness. I don’t know whether to be amused and relieved that there’s nothing more important than Jessica’s bosom in the news at the moment, [...]

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Boys will be boys… juvenile jokes

by GeekMom on October 12, 2008

I have three children: two boys, ages nine and seven, and a girl, age three. Life is busy, and the kids keep me entertained. There’s nothing more fun to watch than three siblings singing, dancing, and laughing together! (It happens on occasion.)

However, lately, the boys have been into telling jokes. Now, I think I have [...]

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I have been a compulsive hand-washer and outspoken microbe-phobe for most of my life. For example, back in my sorority days, I would make regular rounds of the chapter house with a can of Lysol disinfectant spray.
I hit just about every common surface, including the phone switchboard, bathroom light switches, door handles… My nickname was [...]

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Mom? What about the Wii?

by GeekMom on September 21, 2008

Recently, we found out that our family will be moving. Hubby has a new job, and since, you know, we all kinda really love him and stuff, we’re going along with him.
So we told the kids at dinner one night. Had everybody sitting at the table together and everything. He said, “Well, [...]

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My kids love flexible bendy straws, and I brought home a package from Bed Bath & Beyond a couple of days ago. After I opened the package, I happened to read the “Use and Care Instructions” on the back, and this is what I saw…

In case that’s too small for you to read, here [...]

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I live in the midwestern United States, in a suburban area. Although I wouldn’t consider this a rural community, you don’t have to drive far to be “out in the country.”
I consider myself a country girl at heart. I grew up on a wooded lot in rural Wisconsin, and loved playing outside without [...]

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Since I finished graduate school and became a full-time mother (nine years ago), my life has become extremely cluttered. There are school papers, coupons, tiny Lego blocks, snack wrappers, odd socks, unlabeled CDs, and mountains of laundry… I could go on, but I won’t. Everything from the important things, like my kids, to the dirty, [...]

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