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Yesterday was all for complaining about Declan.Today, let me show you the book he teacher sent home for him. The page from book that he just read to me out loud, word for word, and only had to phonetically sound about about 5 of those…

If you haven't noticed the tweets, a bunch of people are getting together tonight to raise money for clean water. A pretty damn cool use of social media if you ask me.It's call TWESTIVAL and it totally rocks. 175 cities! All around the world! Amazing!To…

It's been sooooo warm and dry here in Colorado all winter. Not that *I* am complaining, but our trees sure are. And my dog, who adores snow, has been pretty ticked off as well.But we finally got a little bit of the white stuff last…

Tonight, I trekked out to the Super Target next to my office and filled a prescription. Why is that so significant?ONE). I drove back out to work because I have moved all my medicine to Target, who, after ONE MONTH, know me by name and…

Or would that be Man Dog?Whatever. Poe is getting snipped today and couldn't have any food last night and was in rare form because he usually eats like a horse pretty much every minute of every day. In case you are wondering, he is 16…

If you haven't heard, Chrysler ran an print ad in several major newspapers thanking Americans for their recent bailout. First of all, we didn't actually have a choice, and if we had a choice, the answer would most likely have been NO, but whatever. And…

Sometimes I am utterly amazed at the cool things they do at Declan's school. In Kindergarten, they learned about poetry and Declan spent weeks filling up a notebook with poems about mama, dada and laundry lint.Now in 1st grade? The latest lesson is in "how-to"…