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    An April Fool’s Day Story

    Around the first of February my son spent quite a few days home from school with some sort of virus that the rest of us did not contract. It’s the first time in all my years of parenting that the school nurse called to have me pick my child up from school. Not once, but twice…in one week! When I break a streak, I really break it. And, yes. I felt the judgment of school nurses all over the land. It was during one of those ‘he feels fine, but hasn’t been fever free for 24 hours and I can’t risk more judgment from the school nurse’ days that I…

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    Friday Funnies

    It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Friday Funnies post. Maybe we’re losing our funny over here? Man, I hope not! Slowly, but surely I’ve been accumulating some stories that tickled my funny bone. Enjoy! ACRONYMS ARE TOUGH  My daughter and son were playing some sort of game. I don’t know what it was. I just know they weren’t fighting and they had created costumes. These costumes involved using eyeliner to draw whiskers on their faces. The point is THEY WEREN’T FIGHTING. My son’s character (I’m fairly certain he was a cat) suffered a tragic accident. He was lying down with his “paws” up in the air. It was all…

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    Friday Funnies #3

    Well, we survived our first week back to school after the holidays. Just barely. Humor gets me through it all! Here, in this edition of Friday Funnies, are some moments, pictures and stories that made me laugh out loud recently. BUSINESS ADVICE FROM KIDS 6-year-old Son: How many subscribers do you have, mom? Me: On YouTube? I haven’t posted any videos, so zero. Son: What about on that other thing you do? Me: My blog? Probably 3? I don’t know. I don’t pay attention. Son: Wow. That’s bad. That’s really bad. You should work on that. Me: Thanks, kid. INTERVIEWING 101 If I ever go back to the corporate world… (source: @leahgay…

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    Friday Funnies #2

    Here are a few items that put the happy in my dance this week. Enjoy! via GIPHY My son started taking fencing lessons. If you have a little boy or girl who is obsessed with all things swords and lightsabers, then this is the sport for them. Here’s a conversation my son and I had when we arrived at fencing practice last week. Son: Mom! Did you see those lunches last week? Me: Lunches? They had lunch here? How did I miss that? Son: No, mom. The lunches I made with my sword. Me: Oh! You mean lunges? Son: Yeah. That’s what I said. At that point I started laughing…