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Oh, Hai, I Can Has Bitching?
HerBadMother is holding a bitchfest and allowing anyone to join in to post a rant, host a vent or to just read on and give a big "hell Yeah!"
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The new crack 2008-09-29 23:27:54 There are words that, when strung together, just make your heart sink.
“Ummm, the principal needs to speak to you.”
“I missed.” Regarding anything having to do with the bathroom.
“I didn’t do it!” Regarding everything else.
I have a new one!
“Guess what I found in the couch?”
At this moment, there is no thought that there couldn’t possibly be [...]
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It doesn’t get anymore random than this 2008-09-28 21:46:34 If you can, eat a meal at Chili’s today! 100% of the sales goes to benefit St. Judes Children’s Hospital.
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I reposted the list from this post for my Sunday column spot at 5 Minutes For Special Needs this week.
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The airdate for my Oprah appearance (squeeeeee!) is October 1st, so don’t miss it on Wednesday! I [...]
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The reasons why 2008-09-27 12:11:25 The mothership has landed.
And it brought my hubs home!!!
For those of you who might not know or understand why that’s a big deal, my hubs doesn’t live here. He lives and works in Alabama.
“Really?” You might say.
“Ayup.” I’d answer.
“Why?” Might be your next question.
“Cause I likes me some paychecks and insurance…..plus Mama needs a new [...]
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USF Ice Bulls Childhood Cancer Event! 2008-09-26 08:15:31 If you like hockey, raise your hand!
If you like USF, raise your hand!
If you think raising money to give to the families of kids with cancer is a good thing, raise your hands!
If anyone dropped their hands on that last one, be prepared, I’m coming for YOU!
If you’re local to the Tampa area and you’d [...]
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My trademark brand of crazy 2008-09-25 12:48:34 When something’s weighing heavy on your heart, do you have a sure-fire way of overcoming the funk that wants to drown you? Avoid thinking about it? Get so busy you don’t have time to obsess about it? Or do you just indulge in the funk, wallowing in it until you are neck-deep in the sheer [...]
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Do I hear him now? 2008-09-23 21:00:00 I noticed him squatting by the entryway of the library.
I noticed his filthy clothes and his dirt-crusted skin.
I noticed the smell that tells me he hasn’t seen the wet side of a bar of soap in a very long time.
I noticed him noticing us…my children with their school uniforms and shiny smiles…the brightness of their [...]
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Don’t you wish your daughters were sassy like mine? 2008-09-22 23:56:44 Does your child pick out her own clothing?
Is your child often mismatched?
Do you fear that people will assume YOU dressed your child this way?
Do you think letting your child pick out her own clothing is helping her express her creativity?
Are you kidding me? Have you see some of the outfits Peyton’s walked out of the [...]
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Score one for Peyton in the battle of the binky! 2008-09-22 13:41:36 Accidents have led to some of the great benchmarks in science and technology. There are a lot of great things that came from complete brainfarts. Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin because he didn’t clean his equipment well enough and a culture of bacteria grew mold…I could have the cure for cancer growing in the back of [...]
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Lots of Lazy Link Love 2008-09-20 23:41:43 Easy like Sunday morning! So easy, I’m doing it Saturday night.
In the aftermath of a birthday party, a casino-hitting girl’s night out, and a diatribe against Locks of Love that has gotten some pretty serious response, I am taking today to be L-A-Z-Y!
I’m just going to hang with my kids, clean up around the house, [...]
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Locks of Love, you disappoint me greatly 2008-09-19 20:00:21 Ok, fasten your seat belts because this is a letter that I’m sending RIGHT.THIS.SECOND.
Dear Locks Of Love,
HOW dare you?
After hearing that multiple requests for wigs from your organization were rejected because you “prefer” to give your products to kids with long-term hair loss ONLY, I am not only angry, but frustrated and hurt and truly [...]
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Am I dead yet? 2008-10-17 14:41:26 I had this great post about Rachael’s first sewing project and how she produced her first piece of clothing…one that you would actually wear, not one of those funky Project Runway concoctions made of toothpicks and dvd cases.
But I have a migraine.
One of the slow creepers that makes my eyeballs pulse and a high pitch [...]
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The one where I admit I have seriously bad mom moments. 2008-10-16 07:00:00 **Which I may have already admit
ted on NATIONAL TV to Oprah (just in case you missed it), but let’s go for round two, ya’ll!**
I am a very loud person.
Let’s all take a moment so my mother can catch her breath from falling off her chair laughing (plus, if everyone could say a prayer for my [...]
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The weight of words 2008-10-15 07:00:03 Peyton had her bi-weekly oncology clinic visit today. They pricked her finger and we got a CBC (complete blood count) that showed everything is right on target.
My heart is relieved. Each visit, each month…no matter how good she looks, how energetic she’s been…there’s a stutter in my chest while I wait to receive the results [...]
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What?! You have guilty pleasures too 2008-10-14 07:08:32 When the Harry Potter books came out I managed to avoid reading them for a ridiculously long amount of time. A bunch of my friends had already gobbled down the books and even Peter plowed through the first few. Although, I enjoyed the movies and looked forward to each one, I still didn’t feel the [...]
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Would you let this woman watch your kids? 2008-10-13 07:00:52 **Updated, this post was nominated for Serious.Life.Magazine by my new friend Michelle
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Take this as a warning that you may not want to let your kids spend the night over at my house. Not because anything bad happened, but OH, it could have! The kind of stuff that when shared in the wrong [...]
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Don’t forget to catch me over here today 2008-10-12 13:59:38 I posted today about how dismissive I found Obama’s opinion that “children are relatively inexpensive to insure“. Here’s my open invite to any politician to come check out our healthcare costs for Peyton…anytime.
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Mission accomplished! 2008-10-11 21:17:56 I got to go on the field trip with my boy!
He’s so handsome.
We went to a Junior Achievement learning experience where the kids got to assume roles within many businesses. They had to accomplish task such as keeping and balancing a checkbook, paying their employees, and working in their businessees. Nathaniel was a lawyer. He [...]
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I think we need a different toy 2008-10-09 22:40:54 Peyton loves the game Cootie.
It’s a fun game, I don’t blame her.
BUT.
Wendy’s new toy in their kid’s meal is a miniature Cootie…with a pull string that makes it wiggle all around.
After playing with it a while, Peyton comes flying into the kitchen yelling, “Look!”
She tucks the toy between her legs and pulls the string.
“My cootie [...]
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Field trip Friday 2008-10-08 20:56:53 **I’m over here today too, being shamelessly sassy and complaining about my husband’s ability to make me LIKE things.
Nathaniel has a field trip this Friday
and we’re both looking forward to it.
This is the first field trip in 2 years that I’m committed to chaperoning AND I think I’ll actually be able to go.
There [...]
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A haiku: Bad way to wake up 2008-10-07 07:00:17 Cancer camp Friday
Anticipation
We are full of excitement
Tall buildings, new paint
Wraparound decks greet the eye
White rockers beckon
A crystalline lake
Alligators are sleepy
The children are not
First day has flown by
Beds welcome tired campers
A toilet is clogged
My child wakens first
She attacks the day, I snooze
I become alert
What is that smell, Pete?
No answer comes, yet I know
Unmistakabl
Throwing some love our hospital’s way 2008-11-07 05:00:49 For the first time, we walked into our hospital
no longer in treatment.
We are still under their care, but Peyton is no longer a “patient”.
It felt good!
We’ve had a love affair with our hospital and clinic from the start, and we never cease to be thankful that Peyton was diagnosed in a location that has [...]
The fewer words said, the better 2008-11-06 05:00:59 Once upon a time…
There was a sweet little girl who liked to read.
And because she likes to get in character, she started wearing this bonnet everywhere.
And she was very cute.
When her mean mama said she couldn’t wear it to school, she wore this headband instead. Adorable, no?
Only she was covering up THIS.
Curse you, scissors.
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One time I don’t want to party 2008-11-05 05:00:55 I had this whole post planned about the “end of treatment party” or lack thereof.
I even had it partially drafted.
Everything I needed to say about this subject is totally encapsulated in the next sentences I’m going to type:
Another friend’s child relapsed this week. A young man, eleven years out of treatment, was diagnosed with a [...]
Oh the games that children play 2008-11-04 04:07:57 Peyton’s last day of chemo picture (taken with my awesomely new and fabulous camera!)
Peyton’s announcement:
“I showed all my friends my port at school today and Hayden didn’t believe it was a port. He says it was my boob and it’s not a boob, it’s my PORT. So I showed him that it wasn’t my boob [...]
My constant in all the change 2008-11-03 04:00:24 This summer I made a choice to switch over Peyton’s site to a different format. I was concerned that the change of look and putting ads on it would alienate readers who’d been through each day of her treatment, perhaps they would feel I was selling out my daughter.
And there were definitely those who felt [...]
The Day 2008-11-02 00:40:32 Today is Peter’s shot to talk and I know you’ll all show him lots of love. He doesn’t do it often, but when he does he brings the heart. Thanks, honey, for posting on this tremendously happy/crazy anxious day.
Today is just a day. It’s nothing special on the calendar. It’s just a day, really, [...]
This moment of complete slack brought to you by Snickers 2008-11-02 00:29:05 I promise that there are new post a’coming!
I’ll be giving my hubs the spotlight sometime soon as he has something special to share with you.
I have posts bouncing off my brain, but have been in a complete
STATE this week.
I’m also still grieving the passing of my wonderful camera.
No end-of-chemo-day pictures.
No Halloween pictures.
Curse you, mystery [...]
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The end is nigh! 2008-10-29 21:21:56 I’m sure you’re prepared for some sort of WOWZER! type post about the last day of clinic chemo.
I just don’t have it in me today.
It happened today, though.
Finally.
Port working on first try. Check.
Final Vincristine given safely. Check.
Peyton went happily to be anesthetized. Check.
Sort of wishing they’d anesthetized me as well. Check.
Final spinal tap administered. Chec
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