Carol: I know, right? Who am I?
I’m Janet Blogging Fool, that’s who!
This post is kind of cheating, because these videos are old. Anyway, thanks to AL, who reminded me about them. I haven’t watched them in so long. They made me smile so now you can suffer while I play the annoying mom. (“Jehr-REE… You [...]
Author Archives: halfmama
Hypocritical Blogging Fool
July 31, 2008 – 1:48 pm
I’m On a Freakin’ Roll
July 29, 2008 – 12:38 pm
This video is a slight exaggeration (VERY slight) of a typical day designing for clients:
Believe me, it’s funny because it’s so true — most of the time anyway. Like I said, I’ve been lucky lately in that I have clients who actually trust my experience and opinion.
Once, when designing a logo, I received a spreadsheet [...]
A Frikkin’ Update
July 25, 2008 – 11:56 am
Overheard Recently
Bean, running down the hall to Buddy: “Bud! Buuuud! Daddy said he turned on the fan because it’s FRIKKIN’ hot in here!”
Bean and Buddy over the monitor: “…’brella, ella, ella, eh – eh – eh, ella, ella, ella, eh – eh – eh, ella, ella, ella…”
They frikkin’ lulled themselves to sleep singing Rihanna. I [...]
Get Up, Stand Up. Don’t Get Up A Fight.
March 20, 2008 – 12:01 pm
Sarah of shutterbug mama kindly organized an outing last night to see Adele Faber. Adele Faber (if you don’t already know) is a parenting guru and author of the books, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, and Siblings Without Rivalry (amongst others). Since G and I already owned [...]
Timing
March 17, 2008 – 10:32 am
Bad timing is house-hunting when one of the largest and oldest financial institutions is about to go bankrupt, sending the market (and mortgage rates and loans) into a tailspin. Let’s hope the latest news stabilizes things in the near future. Otherwise we might be knocking on your door soon with a truckload of boxes behind [...]
Advice?
March 13, 2008 – 1:18 pm
When do kids start understanding consequences for their actions?
Here’s the deal: the kids are currently signed up for a gymnastics class. With each passing week, they become less and less enthused during the class. However, they are ALWAYS excited about going.
Once there, they usually make it through about 20 minutes before they start complaining and [...]
Observation Day
March 11, 2008 – 10:07 am
Recently, we had the opportunity to observe B&B in their classes. Since our experience with Montessori is so little, we were eager to see the inner workings of their classrooms — especially since, when we ask them what they did at school during dinner, we get the teenage shrug and the, “I dunno,” totally indifferent [...]
Lists of Split Personalities
March 7, 2008 – 11:32 am
When you have two kids in two different classrooms, you are exposed to twice as many germs. It has been one sickness after another here and I have finally fallen victim. So I’m sitting on the couch with the laptop right now and moaning like a big baby. Thankfully no one else is home to [...]
Scissor Siblings
March 5, 2008 – 11:45 am
For Valentine’s Day, the school requested that the kids make (MAKE!) cards for EACH CHILD IN THEIR CLASS. What??
We got to work, spending two days holding arts and crafts class in our dining room. We were so lazy about cleaning up after the first day, knowing we weren’t done yet, that we ate in the [...]
Being Haive
March 4, 2008 – 11:33 am
Once you leave blogging for awhile, it is hard to come back. Or maybe that’s just my excuse for being lazy.
It’s also difficult to find anything significant to say when others are going through such rough times. Those are real problems. Me? Not so much.
Not to say that I don’t have anything real going on. [...]
