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5 steps to the perfect birthday party for a seven year old girl
Step 1: Issue invitations
Let the birthday girl invite whomever she wants, as long as you’ve heard her mention the proposed invitees’ names before. That means you must have at least a mailing address, email address or phone number for all invitees. If she can’t muster up contact information, then I’d question how well she [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on April 13th, 2009 tagged Daring you to disagree, Look at me, look at me!, Miss Goosie | 8 Comments »
Thanks Easter Bunny!
Bawk bawk!
Published by mothergoosemouse on April 12th, 2009 tagged Look at me, look at me!, Miss Goosie | Comment now »
Let’s talk about sex. On second thought, let’s not.
I have to admit that I enjoy the satisfaction of having tackled a tough topic with my kids, realizing that we all emerged unscathed. Politics, religion, racism, and gay marriage – we’ve done our best to be objective and respectful while putting these sticky topics into terms that kids can understand.
Of course, now and then [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on April 10th, 2009 tagged Bloggy-linky-meme-y, Bwahahaha!, Miss Goosie | 3 Comments »
Thank you for being my girl
Dear Tacy,
As you’ve approached your seventh birthday, I’ve wanted to bottle up our days together so that I may hold tightly onto them when, in another few years, you won’t let me hold tightly onto you.
Something magical happened this year between you and me. We rarely quarrel anymore; now we are allies. I’ve grown increasingly [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on April 9th, 2009 tagged Miss Goosie | 8 Comments »
‘Cause you gotta have friends
Tomorrow we are having a birthday party, here at the house, for Tacy.
We went through a few iterations of where to have the party and what to do at the party, but the one point on which there wasn’t much deliberation was whom to invite. She rattled off a list of names, and I ticked [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on April 3rd, 2009 tagged Bloggy-linky-meme-y, Miss Goosie, Who me?, Youthful indiscretions | 9 Comments »
The best kinds of fun are unscripted
When I told the girls we were going to Disneyland, they were thrilled to pieces. “We go to Cal-ee-fornia?” CJ asked. “We see Mickey Mouse?” When I confirmed that’s exactly what was in store, she literally jumped up and down and clapped her hands, cheering “Wheeeee-hooooo!”
Tacy, of course, was a little more chill, but still [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on April 1st, 2009 tagged Daring you to disagree, Miss Goosie, Miss Mousie, Olliepop, The king of beers, Who me? | 8 Comments »
ROFLMAO!
My tweet about Tacy’s practiced introduction to her class presentation garnered some replies so funny they sent Kyle and me into fits. Surprisingly though, I didn’t get any backlash on her use of the f-bomb.
If you’ve been reading mothergoosemouse for any length of time – like maybe a week or so – you’ve probably already [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on March 23rd, 2009 tagged Bwahahaha!, Daring you to disagree, Miss Goosie | 11 Comments »
“10 minutes till bedtime!”
I only wish that’s how bedtime went in this house. I’d even take truckloads of hamsters parading through the house if it meant that the girls actually got to bed on time.
Seriously. I’d even vacuum up all the poop pellets.
Tacy and CJ almost never go to bed on time. And it’s not usually because they’re [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on March 14th, 2009 tagged Bwahahaha!, Kids say the darnedest things, Miss Goosie, Miss Mousie, The king of beers, Who me? | 6 Comments »
Telling stories
When I used to fill in at Tacy and CJ’s old pre-school, I heard from more than one teacher about the lively tales told by their kids. Sometimes those stories got personal enough – and racy enough – that the teachers had a little difficulty looking parents in the eye when they arrived to pick [...]
Published by mothergoosemouse on March 5th, 2009 tagged Daring you to disagree, Kids say the darnedest things, Miss Goosie, Miss Mousie | 6 Comments »
Tacy’s mom has got it goin’ on
My mother rarely volunteered at my school or in my extra-curricular activities. She volunteered in other capacities (such as…gulp…Junior League), but the room mother gig just wasn’t for her.
I didn’t mind. Other kids loved having their mothers chaperone field trips and plan class parties, and their mothers loved doing those things. Not me, and not [...]
