Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 12th, 2010
If you are unfamiliar with the Type-A personality, I found a fairly succinct, albeit rather simplistic, definition: “Temperament characterized by excessive ambitiousness, aggressiveness, competitiveness, drive, impatience, need for control, focus on quantity over quality and unrealistic sense of urgency.”
Wow. Did the author of this sentence have Andie in the forefront of his/her mind when he/she [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Nov 19th, 2009
My mom always told my two sisters and me when we were growing up to treat each other better than anyone else because someday we’d be each others’ best friends.
Yeah, right, I’d think to myself. There is NO way I’m going to be best friends with these jerks!
Well, as moms often are, she was right. [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Aug 13th, 2009
Last night was the parent/player volleyball meeting at school for grades 6-12. Because of the school’s small size, the volleyball coach has been letting the 6th graders play on the junior high team. My daughters’ large class brings a whopping 15 players to the team and since our volleyball team is one of the best [...]
Posted in Tips on Aug 12th, 2009
Twins are so fascinating. Sometimes I can hardly believe how much mine love and cherish each other. Their relationship is unlike anything I ever had with my sisters, though basically they are just sisters who were born on the same day. It’s got its own rules, its own dance, its own nuances. I think the [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Aug 4th, 2009
Once you have twins, it’s amazing how many people come out of nowhere to tell you about the twins in their families. People you’ve never even seen before, much less talked to, suddenly appear over your stroller whenever you’re out, cooing over your babies and telling you all about their twin nieces/siblings/kids/parents.
A lot of what [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 27th, 2009
For the past couple days, my sons have been at their grandparents’ house, leaving the girls and me home alone. This doesn’t happen very often, so it has been great fun to have just us girls here, which creates a whole different dynamic. We’ve played a game; watched the American Idol finale, which I still [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 25th, 2009
It can be quite hilarious — and sometimes a bit perplexing — to find out how little kids mesh what they see on TV and movies with real life.
The other day Logan and I were driving to town, singing along to “High School Musical 2.” All of a sudden from behind me came an angry [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 19th, 2009
I didn’t get a post done because I’ve been under the weather and had to go to the doctor today. When you live out in the middle of nowhere and have to drive 35 miles to town, the process generally takes the entire day because you can’t go all that way without picking up groceries [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 12th, 2009
My colleague, Jenny, blogged about name popularity today over at Blogging Bout Boys. She gave a link to the Social Security Administration website, which allows you to look up names and their popularity through the years. It’s quite interesting.
For example, Cody, who was named for his dad’s best friend, who died in a vehicle accident [...]
Posted in Discussion of the day, Miscellaneous on May 11th, 2009
Most of my kids are bleary-eyed and grumpy in the morning and on school mornings, I almost always have to drag the boys out of their beds. It’s not a very pleasant job, especially when my natural state in the morning is not exactly conducive to rising with the sun either.
By the time school is [...]
