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The Family CFO

Phillip and I attended the required marriage preparation classes at church before our wedding. We sat through these with fake-interested smiles on our faces, ignoring the couple who said they'd never had a fight in twenty-some years of marriage (PLEASE) ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  19 Nov 2009

Another Round of Correspondence

Dear Swine Flu, I am hauling my precious babies to the pediatrician's office tomorrow where they will be injected and sprayed with tiny bits of you, all to protect them from what the newspapers are leading me to believe is The Next Bubonic Plague. I am ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  12 Nov 2009

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I have no idea. Do you?

I'm not a very observant mom. Actually, a better way to put that is: I am not observant AT ALL. I'm rarely the first person to notice if one of my kids has a bump or a scratch, and when I'm in the throes of dealing with a whiny, unhappy kid, it hardly ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  5 Nov 2009

The floors would be shinier if someone else cleaned them.

This week I will let a strange man into my house when my husband isn't home. I will greet him with heaps upon heaps of kisses and shouts of delight because he will be bearing gifts of mops and sponges and environmentally-friendly cleaning supplies. He ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  29 Oct 2009

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Wear Your Mommy Pride!

I'm not a great cook. I have a dinnertime repertoire of about four or five dishes, and these I can usually manage not to burn or otherwise destroy. I have a really hard time THINKING of things to cook let alone ACTUALLY COOKING them, so I am proud to ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  22 Oct 2009

Motherhood Karma

Here's your context for today's post: Before kids, I was the person rolling her eyes and raising her eyebrows and sighing disapproving sighs around parents who could not control their children. On occasion, I am ashamed to say, I still do this. But ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  15 Oct 2009

The Grad School Days

This past weekend marked the start of a new era in the Cheung Household. I'll call it The Grad School Days. For the next two years, my husband will be working full time and attending class on Friday nights and Saturdays. I'll be home, holding down the ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  8 Oct 2009

The Nightly Dinner Battle

When the boy wouldn't eat his dinner tonight, we put on our bright "Oh well!" faces, let him down, and cleared the dishes. But a few hours later we broke down and heated up one of those Costco corn dogs his grandmother introduced him to over the ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  1 Oct 2009

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A Potty Training Cry for Help

At one end of the potty training enthusiasm scale we have the elimination communication folks holding their pantsless babies over their heads in triumph, and at the other end we have your trusty blogger, cowering behind a small fort of diapers and ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  25 Sep 2009

How will they disappoint me? I'll try to count the ways.

I have a friend who has achieved every kind of success known to womankind, from school and career to perfect hair and flawless skin, but her mother is deeply disappointed in my friend's choice of future husband. It's unfathomable to me, that such a ...

From MIGHTY MAGGIE, Parenting,  17 Sep 2009

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