Humor

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Is This How the Swine Flu Started?

We can find humor everywhere, even in an epidemic. Slate Magazine has a gallery featuring 29 cartoons about the swine flu outbreak. These are my favorites:

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Kids and Clutter: Teach Kids to Clean Up After Themselves

My boys are messy. Lord, Grant me patience to endure my blessings.  I spend way to much precious time picking up after them.
Yesterday I took them at by the hand–room to room–to remind them of basic instructions.

I started the tour using my Nice Mommy Voice,   “You are not house guests. You are members of [...]

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In Memory of the Pillsbury Doughboy

Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly.
He was 71.Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California [...]

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Photo of a Soon-to-be Accident

This is the before photo of an soon-to-be accident. My son got creative. Do I allow him to keep his invention and wait for the inevitable? Or do I confiscate it before the disaster?
 

His name is David. David and the slingshot…sound familiar? I named him David because it means “beloved of God” not because it [...]

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You Know You’re A Mom When…

A list we moms can relate to.

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A Smile is a Click Away

A cheerful heart is a good medicine… Psalms 17:22

Homeschooling Multiple Ages
Self Control (Have You Ever Had One of Those Days?)
The Bitter Homeschooler’s Wish List
Boomama (bring fried chicken and diet coke)

Why Gyms Are No Good
20 Advantages to Homeschooling
What?! No School Today?
You Know You’re A Homeschool Mom When…

“The best way to cheer yourself up [...]

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Laundry Daze

Laundry Danger
This is what happens at my house when I’ve been sick for a week or working on a deadline.

 
Long Time Never-Been Solved Laundry Mysteries

Where does the other sock go? (Aliens? Sneaky sock-thief neighbors? Floating in cyber space with some of my email?)
What is lint? Why does the amount vary from load to load?

When Hubby [...]

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Thinking Like a Child

We’ve been taping (TiVo) episodes of Discovery Channel’s Planet Earth to watch in the evenings. After dinner and the dishes I asked the boys which episode they wanted to watch: Deep Oceans, Great Plains, or Caves. They voted on Great Plains.
The world’s plains are home to massive herds of animals. This episode reveals [...]

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No More Oatmeal Kisses

A young mother writes: “I know you’ve written before about the empty-nest syndrome, that lonely period after the children are grown and gone. Right now I’m up to my eyeballs in laundry and muddy boots. The baby is teething; the boys are fighting. My husband just called and said to eat without him, and I fell off my diet. Lay it on me again, will you?”

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