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I am a Box Tops  Nazi. If I am at the store and can’t decide between two different brands and one has the box top? Thats the one I buy. I have been known to dig in our trash to getone, yes I realize it is only worth 10 cents, but its 10 cents more than the school had to start with.  I carefully cut them out and save them until I have a baggie full and then give them to Noodle to turn in. Lately it seems when you are a great big 6th grader, turning in box tops your mother has saved is so un-cool. So to spare my child the nightmare of having to do such a thing I asked M3 (who is a cool 1st grader and in her world box tops are indeed cool) if she would turn them in for me. She was happy too but asked me “What your kid doesn’t want to do it?”.  The funny thing is that Noodle has been around since before M3 was born so she doesn’t ever remember a time that my “kid” wasnt’ a part of her life.

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Last night at softball practice I was talking and not paying a lick of attention to what was going on (I know that is a shock to you all)  and I got nailed in the leg just below my knee with a foul ball.  I was proud of myself for not using a naughty word, but man oh man did I ever want to. The bruise is just started to show, I imagine it is going to be  a lovely shade of purple in the next day or so.

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Grandma is still visiting from Podunk. She came over to the house Sunday afternoon and after Noodle showed her around she said to me “Its a far cry from the farm house”. If she only knew….. I would give my right arm (heck I would give my left one also) to live in the farm house.

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A lady came into the shop earlier in the week and wanted to know if this was Jane Doe’s store. I told her that I did not know who Jane was. She was very persistent that this was the store that Jane said was hers. I told her I had been here for 12 years and there was never a Jane here. She was not happy with me.  That Jane is such a liar.

In the 12 years I have been here I worked every combination of days and or hours you can imagine. A different lady was here and told me “I come shopping here ALL the time but I have never seen you here before, how long have you worked here?”.  I felt bad and said “Oh not long”.

(See stupid bubble wrap lady I can be nice when I want too!!)

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I made the mistake of wearing flip flops (which I wear every other day except for about 3 weeks out of the year) today. Noodle had a field trip where we walked about a mile there and a mile back.  A least the blister on the bottom of my foot is on the opposite leg the bruise will be on. If I take turns limping on each leg maybe it won’t be quite so obvious.  I am just a mess.

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Last night we were home by 8:15!! Woo Hoo. The rest of the week there was not a night that we were home before 9:00.  I can’t wait for summer vacation so we don’t have to worry about it quite so much. Speaking of the ball park - we had to do our turn working in the germ shack  the snack bar a week or so ago. Lets just say my child has been forbidden to eat anything that is not pre-packaged from it. You so don’t want to know the details. I may or may not have called the Health Dept. the next day.

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Different grade levels at school take turns hosting the weekly school mass. This week was kindergarten. They were so stinkin cute.  My ovaries started screaming and my clock started a tickin. If only it was that easy hu?

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We have another busy weekend ahead of us at Casa de Mar. Bet you can’t guess where we will be tonight. Ok, the ball field you win, we live such an exciting life. Tomorrow we both have to work, but it is also Mama B’s birthday and no birthday should or will go by without having our friend Captain Morgan over. Sunday is Mother’s Day and I can be hung over if I want to right?  OH!! I almost forgot! A year ago yesterday we bought our house. It was quite possibly the longest year of my life but turns out it was all worth it. Imagine that.

 

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