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Posts from ‘February, 2009’

This is the last one, I swear!

I pinky-promise that this will be the LAST video of R2-D2.
Today.
Cause nothing says romance like watching two machines find their soulmate (seriously, I’m like E-freaking-Harmony up in here!)…or watching a robot hump the vacuum cleaner….or maybe whispering sweet nothings to it in Princess Leia’s voice.
Whatever works for you.
I’m not judging.

Crazy Robot love from Anissa Mayhew [...]

Chapter 4 of the Mean Parent Handbook: How to ruin your kid’s life forever

I am just sick this morning.
SICK!
Not EWWW-sick like I was last week during that nasty bout of stomach flu, but absolutely 100% heartsick this morning.
Why, you might ask yourself.
Because I had to be a freaking parent this morning!  And it sucks. And I hate it. And I resent my kid right now for MAKING me [...]

Do you smell that?

People will ask me, “How do you keep UP with all those sites you write?”
My honest answer is generally, “Have you seen the condition of my house?”
And I ain’t lying on that one.
But it’s not as much heavy lifting as you’d think.
First of all, this blog is the only one I write full time on [...]

My kids are all the thanks I need

Peyton - Will you get me a glass of water?
Me - Get it yourself.
Peyton - pleeeeease, mama?  I’m tired today *makes very put-upon face*
Me - (grumble grumble grumble but gets up to get the requested beverage) You know if you just pull up a chair you can get a drink whenever you want
Peyton - (mumble [...]

Daddy’s new “special” friend

It’s LONELY being apart from your family for so long…it’s been over a year now that Peter’s lived in Alabama while we house down in Florida.
So, the kids and I got him a very special friend.
I hope they’ll be very happy together.

Meeting R2-D2 for the first time from Anissa Mayhew on Vimeo.
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