Happy Holidays from all of us
Merry Christmas From The Family by Robert Earl Keen
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Redneck Swimming Pool
I have often wondered if I would have liked Tucson better if we had bought a house with a pool at the start. I was always worried about Ben, and later, Maya, drowning in a pool so I adamantly refused to even look at properties that had pools when we first moved here. [...]
Put down your weapons
Tonight, while reading Judith Warner’s column online in the New York Times, I stumbled onto an article she had written a few weeks ago called “Families to Care About.” The gist of the article was that the economic downturn has mostly affected the poor and middle classes, but that coverage was primarily of upper-class [...]
Conversation with a 2-year-old
Me: “What’s your name, Maya?”
Maya: “Princess.”
Me: “Princess what?”
Maya: “Princess.”
Me: “Is your name Maya?”
Maya: “No. It’s Ariel.”
Me: “Ariel or Princess?”
Maya: (Practically rolling her eyes) “Princess Ariel.”
Me to Marti: “I think we’re going to regret this someday.”
More Pics (for the stalkers who let me know how often they check this site)
ZOMG I have a dog
Um, world? Sometimes I do things. Impulsive things. Things I not only do not think about, but things that I do not WANT to think about, and yesterday that thing was to go to the local pound and bring home a 30 pound dog.
Why do I do this to myself? It’s hard to say. A [...]
Pics
I thought I would go ahead and post some recent pictures on my blog. I keep putting pictures up on social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut, and I forget that the point of this blog was for grandparents and such to get a little insight on the kids’ growth spurts (it is also [...]