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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Excitement Makes Me Itch

Mamacita says:  I’ve got an exciting few weeks coming up, what with Science in the Rockies and BlogHer and a Grogan family reunion in the lineup.  I’m going to be seeing people I haven’t seen in a year, meeting fabulous wonderful people I’ve been dying to meet for ages, and hanging out with cousins I [...]

Ten Things Tuesday

Mamacita says: 1.  It didn’t rain today, and all the plants, animals, and people are in shock.  I mean to say, we don’t know what to do with ourselves.  We’re peeking out of the ark and seeing sunlight.  I guess one of us should send a dove out to scope for land. 2.  All the [...]

Quotation Saturday – On Monday: Wedding Anniversaries

Mamacita says:  Welcome to Quotation Saturday, on Monday.  I meant to post it on Saturday, but it’s too late now, because it’s already Monday morning. I was in Michigan this weekend at the 50th wedding anniversary of two of the nicest people God ever made, and you can see pictures and video on my Flickr [...]

Grillface, Sun Blisters, and Barbecue Sauce

Mamacita says:  The new Carnival of Education is up over at Steve Spangler’s Blog.  While you’re there, check out his post about color-changing solar beads.  If your child has a hard time remembering to reapply sunscreen, why don’t you make a bracelet, or ankle bracelet, or necklace, or thread a bead on a chain and [...]

Politically Incorrect? Good. It’s Probably Honest.

Mamacita says:  I know that it’s politically incorrect to label anybody “stupid” these days, but that doesn’t remove the hard fact that there are an awful lot of genuinely stupid people “out there.” This one, for example. Dear Lord, protect us all from her and her ilk. (This was sent to me several years ago, [...]

Quotation Saturday: Education

Mamacita says:  I’ve been writing exams for the college for the past two weeks, and my eyeballs are falling out of the sockets and spinning like a cartoon character’s.  The only thing missing is the googly eye-spinning soundtrack, for which there are no words. 1.  Education is one of the few things a person is [...]

Heat Advisory? I Don’t Care.

Mamacita says:  We’re having the first “heat advisory” of the summer, but I’m sitting at my dining room table, tapping away on my laptop, looking out the window at the huge shagbark hickory tree in my front yard – complete with scampering squirrels – and I’m not hot at all. That last statement may be [...]

It Is A Terrible Thing Not To Become A Woman When One Ceases To Be A Girl

Mamacita says:  This was formerly posted back in February of 2009, but since so many people are blogging about their pregnancies and deliveries these days, I thought I’d rerun this one of mine. I have others, but I kind of like this one best. First of all, I enjoyed being pregnant. Heck, I LOVED it! [...]

Quotation Saturday: Summertime

Mamacita says:  . . . and the livin’ is easy. . . . Sadly, when I think of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, what comes to my mind first is the inexcusable misprint in our local small-town newspaper several years ago about the modern opera being presented in the college town thirty miles to the north, [...]

An Example of What Excellent Parenting Really Is

Mamacita says:  I know it’s not a brand-new article, but when I  read Mrs. Bluebird’s post of May 26,  I wished she had submitted it to the Carnival of Education yesterday; however, to be quite honest, I think it deserves a place of its own on every blog in the entire Blogosphere.  I’ve never read [...]