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Quotation Saturday: Curiosity

March 13, 2010 – 1:36 am

Mamacita says:  Children are naturally curious.  With each passing day, an infant is more and more curious about what’s going on in the world around him/her.  When is this happening?  When is that happening?  And, later, WHY is this happening, or not?  Add to this everything in between, and it’s little wonder that it’s so [...]

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Rambles With No Easy Answers

January 12, 2010 – 11:52 pm

Mamacita says:  Women who had difficult labors probably hate me already right now, but I’ll go ahead and make it worse: I loved being pregnant. I felt GREAT.
Even when I was sitting still, doing nothing, I was still doing something wonderfully productive.  I was euphoric.  I felt very off-balance, but I’m so inclined that [...]

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Limited-Vocabulary Readers are the Devil. Yes, THAT Devil.

January 6, 2010 – 10:46 pm

Mamacita says:  I don’t think there are any words coined yet that would adequately describe the complete and total loathing I have for simplified, edited versions of good books.
I’ve heard quadrillions of elementary teachers argue that small children learn best when there are few challenges, but I have to disagree with that, too.  How condescending!
I [...]

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Fifi Says “Thank You,” Too.

December 8, 2009 – 3:22 pm

Mamacita says:  She looks pretty good to be 32 years old and full of superglue, doesn’t she.
A few years ago, I thought I would try something new, so I put a twinkly-lights-covered star on top of my tree. It was beautiful, but after a few days, I took it down and hung it from [...]

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Six Word Saturday

October 10, 2009 – 7:13 pm

Don’t wish your child’s childhood away.

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Quotation Saturday: Our Presidents Speak

September 5, 2009 – 5:02 pm

Mamacita says: Before I say anything else, I want to send a huge, grateful shout-out to Mocha Momma!  You should all be reading her blog anyway, because she’s great, but add to all that, I’ve won a laptop from her blog contest!  Oh, Momma, I can’t thank you enough! I’m going to find you [...]

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Hands Off My Pencils or You’ll Be Sorry

August 11, 2009 – 7:05 am

School will be starting soon – or maybe it already has – for most kids, and each year at about this time I like to re-run this post about an issue that really, really makes me want to kill somebody and put his/her head on a post in the WalMart parking lot bothers [...]

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Grillface, Sun Blisters, and Barbecue Sauce

June 26, 2009 – 12:04 am

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 [...]

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

June 14, 2009 – 12:05 am

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 [...]

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Things I Haven’t Done Yet

March 15, 2009 – 9:56 pm

Mamacita says:
1.  I haven’t picked the ten thousand pictures we’re going through, off the living room floor yet.  We’re still looking at them.  Plus, we’re expecting family to come down any day now and look through them with us.
2.  I haven’t sent out any “Thank you for your sympathy” cards yet, but I’ve got them [...]

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