The Parenting Diaries

1. Sleeping like there’s no tomorrow, like a night is more than 12 hours.
2. Eating in a cozy restaurant with my husband.
3. Long bath times with scented candles and cool music.
4. Chatting like crazy with 5 different friends simultaeneously, in 3 different languages!
5. Reading CNN from link to link, reading the newspaper from cover to [...]

 
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1. I usually write my T13 post on Saturdays and Sundays and this weekend was just crazy. The babe was sick on Saturday and I had to do errands for her birthday on Sunday.
2. It was her birthday on Sunday and I have limited time on the internet at [...]

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My daughter at 3 years and 10 months never writes on the walls or on the floor, always on paper or drawing canvas. But my mother has lately took up a part time job of childminding our neighbor’s son who at 2, thinks he is Van Gogh and our white [...]

13 STUFFS YOU (PROBABLY) DIDN’T KNOW
1. The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimau
ngahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
2. Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”
3. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
4. The muzzle of a lion is like [...]

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13 MEANINGS WHEN SHE SAYS…
1. Do what you want. - You’ll pay for this later.
2. We need to talk. - I need to complain.
3. I’m not emotional! I’m not overreacting! - I have PMS.
4. Be romantic, turn out the lights. - I have flabby thighs.
5. You’re certainly attentive tonight. - [...]

 
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13 COURT ROOM CONVERSATIONS (REAL STORIES)
1.
Lawyer: “Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?”
Witness: “All my autopsies have been performed on dead people.”
2.
Lawyer: “What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke that morning?”
Witness: “He said, ‘Where am I, Cathy?’”
Lawyer: “And why did that [...]

 
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13 ZEN SARCASMS
1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.
2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt [...]

 
13 MOVIES I LIKE TO WATCH WITH MY DAUGHTER

The Sound of Music
The Princess Diaries 1 & 2
The Little Mermaid
The Lion King
Babe
Anne of Green Gables
The Parent Trap
Beauty and the Beast
Mary Poppins
The Wizard of Oz
The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Harry Potter movies
Finding Nemo

13 QUOTES ABOUT LOVE
To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - - David Viscott
All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion build upon sand. - - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - - L. L. Mencken
Age does not [...]