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Chloe’s very IMPORTANT update!

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OK, so whatever you heard about me (that Sophie said in the last blog post) IS NOT TRUE! I am super awesome, which somebody forgot to mention (hint, HINT)! Though I’ll give her the credit that it’s true that I called her stupid. Not like I care. Personally, I think she owes me an apology which, hmmmm, I did NOT get. I mean, you’d think that a certain MOM around here wouldn’t be too happy about what she said. But NO! Somebody gets to say bad things about her sister, and get off scott-free! HMMPH! Another VERY important thing she forgot to mention is how freakin’ AWESOME LADY GAGA is! Then, Sophie goes around CRITICIZING Lady Gaga! How HORRIBLE is that?! I think that type of thing should be totally against the law! Well, luckily for her that law doesn’t exist! So if anything important like this happens again DO NOT worry, cause I’ll clear it up!

My Artists & Writers in Training

Sophie’s Blog

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Mommy is fun.  Mommy plays in the sun.  Mommy is nice.  I cuddle with Mommy.  I love Mommy.  Mommy is very, very soft.  Mommy loves Sophie.  Mommy is the best.  Mommy loves “Glee.”  Mommy is a very, very good cuddler.

Papa tickles me very, very good.  When I played the “Baby” game, I throwed Papa’s pajama undies.  Papa is funny.  Papa loves his daughter.  Papa is fun.

Chloe is mean.  Chloe once called me stupid.  Chloe for a sister is ok.  Today Chloe gave me some money because I did a very important job.  I had to take the hose off the plants.  Can we just stop writing about Chloe and write about me?

I am so fun to play with.  I am a good cuddler.  I just love the show “Tom and Jerry.”

 

Frazzled Working Mom's Fleeting Moments (2007-2013)

Happy Mommy

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This was one of the most relaxing and enjoyable Mother’s Days I’ve had in a long time.  For no particular reason.  My husband made us a pancake breakfast this morning and the girls gave me their presents.  A homemade card, a picture, a flowering plant – all made at school – and chocolates from Sophie.  An “Angry Birds” pig from Chloe.  The girls used their own money for the gifts, for the first time ever.  And my husband heeded my strict instructions not to get me anything – hell, he’s my husband, not my kid.  And I loved my gifts.  They were perfect.

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Lucky

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Sophie is getting older.  She still likes to cuddle, but I am starting to sense that she’s not into cuddling as much as she used to be.  More often than not, I’m the one who’s asking her to cuddle. Whereas in the past, she would just come to me and cuddle.  I’ve been in denial about this for awhile now, but I think I need to start facing the facts.  Sophie is getting older and it’s an irreversible trend.

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1,000 Posts!

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This is a day worth memorializing.  This blog post is the 1,000th musing on www.pinkmenot.com.  Yes, indeed – 1,000 stories about my girls (mostly about my girls, in any case) since October 2007.

Now that’s a feat of derring-do if I’ve ever heard of one.  The most amazing thing about it is that I’ve kept it up this long.  I don’t think I’ve ever maintained a hobby for that length of time.  Which must mean that I really, really enjoy writing about my kids.  I think that’s a big hint to me about what I should be doing with the rest of my life.  Now if I’d only take the hint…

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I Hear Things, I Figure Things Out

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Chloe just announced with a big grin that a kid on her bus found a condom in his backpack.  Forget for now why a 10-year old boy would have a condom in his backpack.  He probably has an older brother or something.

When we asked her if she even knew what a condom was, she replied with another funny grin, “it’s what a dude puts on his thing to do you know what with a girl.”  Don’t you love the euphemisms?  When I then asked her how she knew what a condom was, she replied, “I hear things.  I figure things out.  I know things.”  Chloe’s omniscient.

We’ve always been open with her about sex, body parts and other stuff.  But it’s still amazing to me that she knows what a condom is.  “Eventually you learn things,” she sagely says.  “Like an elephant.  You eventually learn what an elephant is.  I didn’t have to ask you.  I figured it out by myself.  Or like mathematics.”  Leave it to her to use the word ‘mathematics’ instead of ‘math.”

Ten years old going on 20.  Woe is me.

Frazzled Working Mom's Fleeting Moments (2007-2013)

Oy, That Hair!

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Sophie’s hair is getting curlier and curlier.  She’s in desperate need of a haircut, which I promise I will take care of in the next couple of weeks.  With the warmer weather, her hair is also frizzier and frizzier.  And knottier and knottier.  Which makes Sophie cry.

So she’s past due for a new ‘do.  My goal is to have it cut a little shorter than usual.  A little more like Shirley Temple.  Which is easier said than done.  Because I certainly can’t share my intentions with Sophie.  She’d flip if I told her my plans before the actual date with the scissors.

Needless to say, Operation Curly Cue is going to necessitate a fair amount of subterfuge and bribery by chocolate.

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The Reading Relay Results

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As loyal readers of PinkMeNot know, Chloe participated in a school read-a-thon to raise money for the American Cancer Society, in honor of her aunt who is currently waging war against breast cancer.

Well folks, the results are in.  Chloe read more than 2,600 pages in 25 days and raised $222.  She’s a crazy reader.  In fact, she’s apparently the most voracious reader in her class.  Since the beginning of the school year, Chloe has read more than 12.500 pages (yes, the teacher keeps track).  If that doesn’t merit some kind of prize in this age of Wii and Playstation, Internet and texting, I don’t know what does.

Her Grammy pledged $0.02 for every page read.  I pledged $0.04 for every page read.  We’re suckers.  But at least we were suckers for a good cause.

Her favorite kind of book is the thickest kind of book.  More value for her money, as far as she’s concerned.  And all the better if it’s part of a series of really thick books.  I’m telling you, she’s a crazy reader.  I’ll take that kind of crazy any day.