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To Dog or Not to Dog?

Posted by on 10:48 am

That has been the question in our house for, oh, probably a year and a half.

Andy and Kate (and now Sam, although I question his decision-making ability) say yes… I say no.

Except now I’m wavering.

I’ve never had a pet. I don’t get the whole thing. I don’t know why people are obsessed with their dogs and I don’t know why anyone would get a cat, ever. I’m sure there’s something to it or 84% of the population wouldn’t have one, but I just don’t get it.

But Kate really loves dogs. She is so cute when she’s around other people’s dogs, and she really wants one of her own.

So then I start looking around Petfinder.com and see faces like this one…

And I think it really wouldn’t be so bad. But then I remember all the pain in the butt parts about having a dog and I don’t want to go through with it anymore.

So tell me, people – dog or no dog?

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(Un)Grateful Dead

Posted by on 6:26 am

That title will apply to Kate if she doesn’t get it together!

I’m not really going to off her, but my goodness there are times I’d like to wring her neck.

Like yesterday, for example.

We were visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes, which just this week was named “Most Beautiful Place in America” on GMA. It is stunning.

We visited last year and had a wonderful time and had been anxious to go again this year. However, as soon as we got there, it was clear that Kate was in one of her “I’m going to be a pain in the ass and there’s nothing you can do about it” moods. Yay!

Unfortunately those moods have been becoming more and more frequent. No matter what we do or where we go, it’s not good enough or we don’t stay long enough or SOMETHING makes her miserable. Which, in turn, makes us all miserable.

Jenny and I have actually both been struggling with this ungratefulness in our oldest children, and we’ve talked about it a lot.

However, we have no solutions.

So, readers, we turn to you. Have you dealt with this kind of thing? Did your kids grow out of it or did you beat it out of them? Or is there a more effective method to change their behavior?

Because seriously, if you can look at this view and STILL be in a terrible mood, I don’t know what to tell you.

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My Girl.

Posted by on 7:20 am

Tonight when I finally got home from Kate’s swim meet zomg it was almost 10:00 and picked up my computer, Photo Booth was up on the screen. For those of you who are PCs, Photo Booth is Mac’s software that uses the computer’s camera to take pictures and put crazy effects on them. Kate’s always messing around with Photo Booth, and I’ve never paid a whole lot of attention to the pictures and videos she takes, but tonight I happened to flip through them, and let me tell you – I was cracking up.

The videos are hysterical – they are like iCarly meets the Blair Witch Project.

Because I am not talented enough to figure out how to post the videos, pictures will have to do. Here are a few of Kate’s self-portraits that I found.

The girl’s not short on personality. I loved finding Kate’s photos and videos not only for my own (and your) entertainment, but because they so perfectly capture who she is. They are so very Kate, and I’m glad to have that on record.

I love that girl!

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