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I love you, I miss you, I’ll be back soon.

Missy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:26:56 +0000

Life has been INsane lately with the pre-K, and the traveling and working and the worrying about working. It’s a mess. So I’m sorry postst have been so sparse lately. Let me make it up to you. Not by posting anything I’ve written. That would be too hard. No, read this post by the [...]

Hello, my name is Chad… UPDATED

Missy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:45:15 +0000

I think that dropping my daughter off on the campus where I went to high school is causing a ginormous case of the nostalgias. Compound that with a birthday coming up next week, a request from my class correspondent to share a favorite college memory, and a family Cosby-Show-a-Thon, and yeah. I’m pretty much livin’ [...]

On laundry

Missy — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:08:12 +0000

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time (or know me personally), you know that I live in one of those fun, multi-generational houses, like all the cool kids are doing these days. There are many people living here all of whom work or go to school full-time (some of us both [...]

Songwriting

Missy — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:13:53 +0000

So it’s 12 hours until I leave on a week’s vacation, I have nothing at all packed and I’ve spent the last 20 minutes illustrating a song that Abby wrote last weekend. She’s into songwriting these days. Usually they have just about one verse, maybe a chorus and they often have slightly ridiculous lyrics. [...]

All Circuits Are Busy

Missy — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:51:41 +0000

Thank you for contacting Missylaneous Enterprises. We are sorry that service has been spotty lately, but all personnel are currently busy putting out other fires.

If you are calling about CPSI, including the brand-new Guides program, being a performer in the Hub, or planning and running a Core program, please contact Missy personally in [...]

I’m not sure I want to know

Missy — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:27:22 +0000

That is my child, sleeping with her big plush puppy stuffed under her nightgown. I’m pretty sure that’s a penguin where her bust will someday be. She had no explanation for this turn of events.

Someday I will show this picture at her wedding.

Revenge for all of those temper tantrums will be sweet.

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Funny bone

Missy — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:19:01 +0000

When a child is adopted, her parents often strive to find ways to point out that she is truly connected to her family. Obviously, there usually isn’t a family resemblance – at least not one for physical features – so we tend to look for connections that come from other places. For example, my [...]

Knock-knock

Missy — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:02:45 +0000

In the car…

Abby: Knock knock!

Daddy: Who’s there?

Abby: Potato chip head.

Daddy: Potato chip head who?

Abby: … I don’t know, I give up.

How to have a perfectly lovely snow day

Missy — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:50:40 +0000

Start out by learning that school will be closed the night before, so you don’t have to get up and listen to the radio for school closings.

Sleep in a little. In fact, if you can avoid waking up until everyone else in the house has already had breakfast, that would be even better.

Give your [...]

Slightly sleep deprived

Missy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:56:19 +0000

Scene: A bedroom, late night/early morning, any one of several nights in the past two weeks

“Mommy”

“Mmmmph?”

“Mommy? Dere’s a monstah in my room.”

Mommy wordlessly lifts the quilt and a small person climbs into bed, instantly filling all available space and hogging blankets. Small person begins sweating, thereby making mommy sweat. Small [...]