Sunday Afternoon

Posted by on Apr 3, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Benjamin Franklin said that you could count on two things in life: death and taxes. I say you can count on three: death, taxes, and my husband taking a nap on Sunday afternoon.What is it with men, anyway? They get the nap gene hard-wired into the DNA, we girls tiptoe around them multi-tasking until our brains are tapioca, and they wake after a couple of hours semi-refreshed and ready to watch...
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Beware!!

Posted by on Mar 15, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Today is March 15. The Ides of March. The day Julius Caesar was betrayed and murdered in the Senate by Brutus and Cassius, who are now killing time in the lowest circle of Hell, being chewed on for all eternity by Lucifer himself.It’s also DH’s birthday.We started dating during his birthday week. I knew I’d found a keeper when I presented him with a birthday card covered with...
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Bed Full O’Babies

Posted by on Mar 13, 2005 in dish | 2 comments Last night, the whole family gets home from a party and it’s clear that this will be a “togetherness” kind of evening. We’re all in pajamas, laughing, having a tickle fight (Is there any sound more wonderful than little kids’ laughter?), when the next thing you know, we’re all piled into the bed. Mind you, we have a queen. A queen that’s not even in a...
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Why Today?

Posted by on Feb 14, 2005 in dish | 0 comments My husband is a lovely, lovely man. One of the annoying things he has to put up with is a little game we’ve developed. “Why today?” I’ll ask him, and he’s supposed to respond with one little reason he loves me today. Occasionally, he’ll pop the “Why today? question on me, but usually, he’s the one on the hot seat. Ah, the neuroses of adult love.In...
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