Posts under ‘saying no’

Party Pooper

Image credit: Photo by jennifer buehrer on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I'm a party pooper.  I'm a downer.  I'm no fun.  I ruin other people's good times.  (Because I totally have control over other people's good times, you know.) You see, yesterday Mark and I had plans to take the kids to a pumpkin [...]

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Beware of the 8-Year-Old

Image credit: Photo by codepo8 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Most kids (at least those who grow up in safe, middle class, American neighborhoods) don't see every new face at the front door (from evangelists to pizza delivery guys) as a potential threat.  But Austen is not most kids.  Unless they come bearing an [...]

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Respect Jack’s Boundaries!

Ok, so I'm a little behind on my Lost watching. Somewhere in the middle of the season my husband and I just couldn't find time to watch TV together, so we are only now getting back to those episodes we so faithfully recorded. Last night we were watching the episode "Whatever Happened, Happened" in which [...]

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