Mothering Many

That’s me. I’m looking for new recipes, and they need to be low in saturated fats and cholesterol. Nope, not because I can’t find cheap Phentermine, but because I found out that I have to watch my cholesterol now. Fun, right? Yippee! Even more label reading, LOL! Heh. At least I’m reading, right? It’s not fine literature, but it’s reading.

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Boy howdy is it hot here! The hair I convinced dh to keep longer last week was shorn today at his behest. I do love my husband’s curls, but he likes being cooler in the summer. After I got done with him, it was Stuntman’s turn. No buzzing for him, but a boy’s regular, one inch. I wasn’t sure I could still do it, my mother has been been cutting it for me for so long, but I did it! It’s sure is nice to be able to save money by doing the hair cutting myself, although I am spoiled and regularly execute balance transfers to my own hair dresser. One of the perks of being the queen of the house, I guess. I do color at home these days, though

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I found out today how much it is going to cost to sign all the kids up for football and cheer leading this year. It is insane. Like, I think I might have actually gasped when I added it all up. Add to it the cost of gas to get to games and practices, snacks for the times we need to bring them, and I am pretty sure we’ll be edging up to a grand before it’s done. At least it will be staggered a bit. I suppose I am going to count my blessings: my kids are all able to participate, and none of them have to sit on the sidelines wearing medical id tags.

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Why is it that the tighter things are financially, the more stuff the kids seem to need? Dh had a few slow weeks, and so we are catching up on a few things, and it seems like every five minutes, someone grows out of something, LOL! I’ll have a shopping list three miles long before I know it! Do you suppose it’s too early to send them out on job search a so they can buy their own clothes? Yeah, I was afraid of that. at least I can have fun shopping, LOL!

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So, I am on the food pyramid plan, right? And guess who is on it with me! The whole fam, LOL. Not necessarily for weight loss, though that will probably be a side effect for at least three of us, but rather for the health benefits. Youth trips which involve all you can eat pizza joints excepted Good thing those are a rarity, because I think I ate the whole week’s grain allotment today.

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Lookie what the kids made:

We were camping in the backyard this weekend, and they made a masterpiece! I’ll definitely have to buy more chalk before our next camp out. We’re doing it again Father’s Day weekend. It’s much cheaper than some other vacations, but I still have a few things on my camping wish list. I should set up a couple of savings accounts to pay for that stuff, I guess, even if it’s just in envelopes. Not that I have enough financial self discipline for that, but, you know. I can dream.

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Poor DaBaby is having a rough time of it lately. She cut one of her fingers pretty badly last week on a I-still-don’t-know-exactly-what, and she just got the other hand slammed in the door. And I think she’s working pretty hard on potty training because she’s been crying a whole lot instead of using words. I sure hope we can avoid any more accidents. If she makes my heart stop one more time, then we might be wishing I had life insurance. Well, they might, anyway. I ’spect it won’t much matter to me.

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So, here I am at 40. Often waspish, frequently tired, and in the no man’s land of wildly fluctuating hormones. My poor husband gets attacked one week and I couldn’t care less the next. I sure am glad he hangs around, yk? Do you know that progesterone is rumored to help with PMS? That’s what they say anyway. I’m not sure whether it’s any more effective than, say, a trip to Tahiti (alone) would be, but that’s what they say. The progesterone is certainly cheaper, though

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Do you remember hearing that from your parents? It sound like you have a passport for trouble, doesn’t it? My mom used to say that to me all the time, and it sure did cause a change in my behavior!

I’ve been thinking more about discipline lately. The undeniable necessity of it has pressed on me from several directions. Discipline is from the root disciple, you know. It means to teach and train. Punishment, if one does the teaching and training well, is just a small part of it. Real discipline, teaching and training, take a lot of time. Just sayin’

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Stuntman has a love/hate relationship with the dictionary, and by that I mean he hates the dictionary and loves to avoid using it. He has even convinced himself that it is “too hard”. Too hard to use a dictionary!!! He got to use it today, though. I was trying to define fear, in the context of fear God, which led to a definition of reverence and awe, which led to him saying I was too old to say awesome. Which led to me telling him to look it up. Listen, I may not know a CAT6 from a rubber baby buggy bumper, but I DO know how to use a dictionary. And now, so does he.

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