Maggie's MindSay Blog http://foggyday.mindsay.com Maggie - MindSay Blog http://foggyday.mindsay.com/boy_scouts_honor_soldier.mws foggyday 2008-01-31T11:01:59-05:00 <![CDATA[Boy Scouts honor soldier]]> http://foggyday.mindsay.com/boy_scouts_honor_soldier.mws

My husband's cousin Stephanie sent us this link to a video.  It shows the local boy scouts marching to her house to give a send off to her husband John Uptmor, who is being deployed to Afganistan soon.

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It's Day 3 since Tracy was allowed to eat eggs by the allergy doctor.  For breakfast, she chose IHOP's funny face chocolate chip pancakes.  Later, when we stopped by a bank's sidewalk grand opening...

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I told Tracy that her preschool class will have class pets -- hermit crabs. 

 

"Like eating crabs?" she wanted to know.

 

"Well, these are not for eating."...

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"Mommy, Daddy, can we use the 'F-word' more often around the house?" Kristen wanted to know.  I blanched.  She can absolutely not use it around the house!  Who taught my kindergartener the...

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The preschool that Tracy started attending this fall has made too many little requests for parents to send in stuff.  Unlike Kristen's old preschool, I now have to supply a snack every day, buy tupperware, buy...

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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/foggyday/how_to_make_a_business_card.mws http://foggyday.mindsay.com/tantrums_and_logic.mws foggyday 2006-02-26T11:02:08-05:00 <![CDATA[tantrums and logic]]> http://foggyday.mindsay.com/tantrums_and_logic.mws

We were getting to the end of our mini-mediation.  Two year old Tracy had apologized for knocking down the hammock (well actually, a scarf) Kristen had painstakingly suspended between the couch and the...

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We were driving back from the elementary school variety show last night, when I heard the unmistakable sound of Tracy throwing up in her car seat.  Oh no.  Was it indigestion?  Was...

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If this day had ended at 4pm, I'd be happily telling the story about a good samaritan who changed my flat tire.  I was so grateful to him.  He didn't tell me his name, nor would he accept any compensation...

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Before the bustling Korean grocery store replaced a local Food Lion, the nearest large-scale Asian grocery store was 45 minutes away -- far enough so that I rarely went.  Now that I can simply drop by for...

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