I mentioned to KFP this morning that his daddy and I were up late watching the election results. "Who won?" he asked. I told him the guy that Mommy and Daddy didn't vote for. "You mean Donald Trump?" I was surprised he knew that; he hadn't been noticeably paying any attention to the election, and The Gryphon doesn't like to talk politics
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A brief personal update: We sold my Mom's house at auction for less than the assessed value but about twice as much as we expected. The closing should come in a few weeks, and our estate lawyer is working on the estate taxes now. We hope to have everything settled sometime this summer
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This is my entry for Week 16 of LJ Idol Friends & Rivals therealljidol. Of the many topics, I chose "When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it."
This is my entry for this week in LJ Idol Friends & Rivals (). We got to choose between a number of subjects this week. I chose "When you live for someone you're prepared to die."
Hopefully, this will successfully embed a link to my Flickr album featuring highlights from our Halloween. We went to a party at friends' place, and KFP went trick-or-treating for the first time!
I am looking for beta readers for my work in progress, working title "The Belated Mommy Diaries (Now with Kung Fu Action Grip)." The work will consist of writings and poems about raising KFP for these first 5 years
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Not so much KFP's silliness, mind you, as the guy talking loudly on the phone. When he's not doing that, he's yelling from the sidelines at his boy: "Wait your turn
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