Raising twins and staying sober 24 hours at a time.
There's a pattern to their fights. To their skirmishes. To their kerfuffles. They are four. They are twins. They wrestle and touch each other CONSTANTLY until it gets to be too much and somebody snaps. When they push each other down and call each other names and maybe even bust out an I HATE YOU, I …
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"It's like mockery, entitlement, and tone deafness all at once. It's like spinning plates only the plates are made of actual garbage." - my kick ass favorite friend Terry. An Open Letter to Makers, Sellers, and Buyers of the Drunk Wives Matter Tumbler: I found your ad for your "Drunk Wives Matter" tumbler on my …
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Every time we go to the zoo, we have to get a Mold-A-Rama. I think it's a law in Chicago. We grew up with the molded plastic animals, warm to the touch after coming out the machines and highly collectible. Just the waft of them can spark up nostalgia, and if there's one thing my husband …
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