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74how come I never noticed I'm Mongolian?
My daughter was interested in her genetic history. Her natural dad is not her real dad. Her real dad adopted her a couple of years after I married him. Anyway, I've told her all I know about her real dad, but...
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63Life with the barbarian princesses
I said this sentence after dinner tonight. I don't know how my 2 year old got food on her elbows, but this is a typical kind of thing I say when talking about her. Think about a barbarian. They are...
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59day in my life as a mother of 10
I had a strange day yesterday. Do you ever have those kinds of days where, for no particular reason, you have just an off feeling all day? I went to my tax audit. It's kinda funny, they wanted me to...
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55beyond mommy-hood
I have a big box in my room. It's full of stuff that I've collected going back years and years. Sometimes I think I will just get rid of it all, but when I look through I just can't throw any of it out. I...
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55a lottery experiment
The back of a lottery ticket lists a ticket's odds of winning and losing. I want to test these myself in the real world. The experiment: I don't play the lottery on a regular basis, only for special...
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53Never try to impress your children
When my oldest son was a teen, he was IM-ing his buddies. I had seen his codes, but didn't really know what they meant. But I decided I wasn't so old and out of touch. I needed his help with something so I...
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50I am a trekkie
I used the word Trekkie on purpose. To change my self description to the more sophisticated Trek-or would make it sound as if their is something wrong with being a Trekkie. And there's not. It's just a made...
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45plants: some things are easier to kill than others
We are trying this kind of growing out this summer. So far it's worked really well. I feed my plants every day. The tomatoes are getting really big. It was so sad, though, I went to show my mom one...
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62Being the mom of 10 four month olds
My first baby was particular. If she liked something a certain way then that's the only way she took it. If I laid on my left side she liked it. If I laid on my right side she would kick me until I turned...
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60Funny kid stories
We had some fireworks left over from a year ago, so we set them off at Hanukkah. It was really cold but a lot of fun. This weekend we went to our little town's fireworks display. Our 3 year old looked at my...
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