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Honor
One of my favorite people in the world moved into her new house this weekend, and passed on this hutch:I'm in love because it's pretty, it provides desperately needed storage and it makes me feel like a grown-up. I normally wouldn't clutter it up so ...
Honor
One of my favorite people in the world moved into her new house this weekend, and passed on this hutch: I'm in love because it's pretty, it provides desperately needed storage and it makes me feel like a grown-up. I normally wouldn't clutter it up...
Pope\'s Creek, VA (Mostly Wordless Wednesday)
***UPDATE! This was in the Commonwealth of VIRGINIA not the state of Maryland. Any Virginian worth his salt would be quick to remind you that the Father of our Country was not from Maryland. Egads!****A just-the-four-of-us getaway to George Washingto...
Pope\'s Creek, VA (Mostly Wordless Wednesday)
***UPDATE! This was in the Commonwealth of VIRGINIA not the state of Maryland. Any Virginian worth his salt would be quick to remind you that the Father of our Country was not from Maryland. Egads!**** A just-the-four-of-us getaway to George Washing...
35
I will be 35 in March. This startles me. Last night, thanks to two large glasses of Diet Pepsi, I was thinking about my age and station in life and realized that.... By the time my mother was 35 she had...*Buried both of her parents.*Been married for...
Mulching Season
My brother wrote this poem about me the other day on his blog: Sister Your faith weighs heavy on mebut in conversationit never comes up. So rudeto raise the issue. So rudeto presume my revelation is true. Knowinghow accomplished and complicatedyour m...
Corrections
Contrary to the information in this post, Christopher McCandless was killed by poisonous potatoes, not mushrooms. Damn, those carbs are e-vil. (Thanks to hubby Paul and my friend Jenny for the heads up.) ***My mother told me that there was mold on th...
"Leather jackets, switchblades, bad nicknames. Why, you all are ruffians!"
While at the gas station, REM's song "Stand." came on. I got a little choked up. I realize this is not a logical response. Allow me to explain. My brother and I, back in high school, were HUGE fans of Chris Elliot, and his television show Get A Life....
My Inner Cook
I cooked taco soup, chicken enchiladas, and shrimp curry in one sitting yesterday, and felt like I had just experienced a spa treatment. Normally, I am doing the following when preparing a meal: get ingredients-tell Owen to give Joel his toy back-tur...
36 Weeks
Today is a wonderful day. Today, my sister-in-law made it to 36 weeks. 37 weeks would be even better. 38 weeks would be grand. 39 weeks would be kind of funny. 40 weeks is starting to get just plain mean. But 36 weeks is a collective sigh of relief. ...
Fireflies
The continued successes of Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian, and Kendra Wilkinson prove to me that God indeed works in mysterious ways. Not only does He give careers to people who are known primarily for their tanning abilities, God also shows me, again...
Habitat
I had an idea. A really wonderful, excellent idea. And, because it was my idea, I didn't trouble myself with pesky details like "cost" or "time" or "difficulty." Instead, while my idea was still a tiny embryo, I called my father and asked, "Would you...
It's Monday, so Pictures with Clever* Commentary Will Suffice
*If by "clever" you mean, "thoughts that go directly from my mind to the keyboard without time for reflection, polishing, or so-called-wit." Owen liked this swing. Although he looks mildly constipated in this picture, let me assure you that most of t...
Explosive
"We're in North Carolina, celebrating Independence Day, Carolina Style. Whatever that means."When I posted this as my Facebook status update, a friend of mine that is proudly from the South responded, "Possum. Lots and lots of Possum." She also menti...
Judy Mohrman is an Undercover Domestic Diva
Whenever I read a historical novel or talk to my grandmother, I thank my lucky stars that I was born in the Seventies. Not only did I grow up with orange shag carpet and avocado counter tops, I also dodged a serious bullet: genuine housewife drudgery...
Headstands
My mother left a message yesterday, giddy because she had done her first headstand in her yoga class. She said, "I just kept creeping forward and forward, and before I knew it I was upside down!"Gotta love Mom. She was diagnosed with diabetes about a...
Spooky
My brother Tom passed on this bit of spooky...Me as a toddler:Owen as a toddler:...
Gene Therapy
I often ask Owen if he looks more like Mommy or Daddy. He sighs and says, with a voice dripping with toddler contempt, "I just look like Owen."Sorry, kid, but that's not good enough. When I look at my children, I feel like a genetic detective, attemp...
Wisconsin
My brother got me again...Medford, Wisconsin: 2006On an August Wisconsin twilight,I'm sitting on a blanket, surrounded by theNorthwoods trees, eating slices of saltedtomato and grilled hamburger, talking aboutcampfires long since extinguished.I'm her...
Holidays
Having kids makes the holidays fun again.Christmas is the possible exception, because it never fell into the "not fun" category. If anything, the addition of spiked eggnog upped the ante.But with the boys, everything is sprinkled with wonder, like po...
I Am the Adult
Yesterday, we took Joel to the Ear-Nose-Throat doctor to get to the bottom of his persistent ear fluid problem. She looked in his ears and declared that the fluid was still there, and it had "bubbles" in it. I can't imagine that's good. She explained...
In Honor of National Poetry Month...
I'm not the poet of the family. My brother, Tom, ishttp://tomjmohrman.blogspot.comSee?Tom takes moments and turns them into transcendent threads of gold. He writes about things that are too scary to express--depression, solitude, regret.He also wri...
