December 31, 2009 – 6:53 pm
Mamacita says:
Happy New Year to all of my Blogosphere friends.
We’ll be spending New Year’s Eve, as we have done for the past many, many years, with our best friends, playing euchre far into the night and talking about everything under the sun. It’s a mixed metaphor kind of evening: the very best kind.
I hope all [...]
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December 29, 2009 – 12:21 am
Mamacita says:
. . . interrupting my post-Christmas blues, my wallowing in Love Actually, my longing for visits from family, and my dread of taking down all my holiday decorations, with the Twelve Rules of Christmas, just for you:
1. Christmas is always better than you thought it would be, even if it’s not.
2. Christmas brings people [...]
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December 25, 2009 – 12:48 am
Mamacita says: Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Fruitful Kwanzaa. Happy Holidays. Peaceful December. Happy Solstice.
Please pick one, or two, and apply them to yourself and to your family.
Christmas Eve is such a magical time. It’s all ahead of us, you see. To paraphrase Katie, age 8, in What Child Is [...]
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December 24, 2009 – 8:19 am
Mamacita says: This was too good NOT to share! What a fantastic activity for kids at any time, but especially during holiday season!
Just think of all the lessons we can sneak in, with this activity! Holidays, following directions, scissor usage, where paper comes from, recycling. . . . I’m SO using [...]
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December 17, 2009 – 8:56 am
Mamacita says: My daughter was seven when she asked the question I’d been dreading for seven years: “Mommy, is there really a Santa Claus?”
However, thanks to Caroline Quiner Ingalls, I knew exactly how to answer her. And, this answer fully satisfied my little child, and me.
Laura and Mary’s Ma knew how to explain to her [...]
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December 12, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: I love these days leading up to Christmas more than any other time of the year. I love the planning. I love the baking. I love the making lists. I love the shopping, which I actually do all year long. I love the Amazon super-secret-discount-deals. I [...]
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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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November 24, 2009 – 2:17 pm
Mamacita says:
1. I do not like this holiday overlap so prevalent today, yet my tree is up and ready. Inconsistency, thy name is Jane.
2. I host Thanksgiving for my family, and I look forward to it with an avidity that is actually frightening, and would probably scare ‘em all off [...]
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November 5, 2009 – 9:28 pm
Mamacita says: Whether or not you celebrate Christmas has nothing whatsoever to do with being Santa Claus for someone. Call it whatever you wish: just call it something, and go forth and do it. Letting your soul curl up into a ball of resentment because YOUR religion, or lack of such, doesn’t “do” [...]
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October 31, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: It’s Hallowe’en, and I’m ready.
Big bowl of filled treat bags for little kids: check.
Big bowl of filled treat bags for bigger kids: check.
Big jar of assorted body parts: check.
Skulls: check
Pumpkins: check.
Forty googly-zillion ladybug beetles crawling on the ceiling: check
Motion-animated singing zombie on front door: check.
Bring it, kids.
1. I’ll bet living [...]
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