Category Archives: Mother-Daughter Videos

Italian Movie star: Vivien’s turn

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It’s been a tough week. month, 4 years. I haven’t been rushing to blog/vlog because there has been so much stress I think I’ll just whine and complain.  Who wants that?  ( um, well, apparently that can make for a successful blog) so, perhaps my penchant for humor is keeping my site down!

Nonetheless, when the going gets tough I need a laugh.  Sometimes I have to look for others for it.  When the going gets tough I always, always can rely on my children to take me out of the depths of depression, self loathing and ennui.

So, while I have shown before my utter adoration for Rex, how he is like an Italian Movie star from the 1960′s, I haven’t given my love for Vivien the same due.  Mostly cause she is usually in school when I do my vids.

So, here to lighten, my mood and yours is the return of this persona.

I love Vivien so much.  Although, I fear with this vid I have frightened her.  Maybe that’s partly why it works to have Rex in more vlogs. He doesn’t know yet that mom is mad as a hatter.

Mom Come here : ballad cry of the youngin

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With all this running around shouldn’t I be thinner?
Mom’s do you have days like this? Hours like this? Minutes like this? This is a typical morning.
To borrow a line from Rumpole of the Bailey, “she who must be obeyed”

It’s hard not to be a mama slave to these guys. cuties

Fluffy Cats

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This might be the closest I get to being like the Zooboomfoo guys.

I’ve never been a cat person.  I’ve never had a cat.

When Cecily and I were little we begged our mom to give us a cat.  She would always say no.

Please we would beg.

She would say, “will you take care of it?”  We would both say, “yes, yes”.  At 4 I believed I what I was saying.  Cecily is two and half years older and she said internally she thought, “No, I won’t , you will mom.”  My mother must have been a mind reader because we never got a cat.

So we became the change we wanted.  We acted like cats. My mom would put milk in a saucer on the kitchen floor and we would lick it up.

Hey, don’t laugh I haven’t done that in.. a couple of years.

So, a situation occurred with a relative where they were unable to care for their cats.  We didn’t know if it was temporary or permanent, but we thought we better look out for them.  Rex and Vivien were thrilled.

Coach Daphne

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As Parents we go to places we didn’t expect.

-Getting exercised about badly designed rain gutters at our kid’s school

- sizing up the hot dads while being sexually dead inside

-discussing the frequency and quality of our babies poo

Things we never expected to do, to be a part of.

What jobs that you are totally unqualified for have you been roped into?

Sippy Cup Hell

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To borrow the old “where’s the beef?” line…

Where’s the lid?

A drink for your kids should be so simple, but the cups and the tops get separated quicker than new socks. My kitchen drawers look like a landfill full of things that will never decompose.

Are there sippy cups with lids that stay attached? That would be a good invention.

Animal Sacrifice

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I thought of calling this “kids kill the darnedest things,” but it seemed too provocative. It’s all a big misunderstanding, you know, like Romeo and Juliet. I shouldn’t judge the mind of a child, right? Just go with it.

I think those moments where you have doubts about your kid are good. It balances out all the moments you think they are as charming as newborn kittens and belch diamonds.

P.S. Oh, lordy, almost back to school… 80% not ready.

Tye Dye Lie

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Growing up, my art major mom always had cool art projects for us… well, at least until she started working full time. I wanted to be that kind of mom. “Okay, time for decoupage.” I rarely achieve this, but once in while I do it right. Like the day I said, “Hey, let’s tie dye!”

If only I was a better person.

Treasure Kai: The Book App

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I’m still dirt deep in my landscape project at Vivien’s school. We are a designated Big Sunday school… the get out and volunteer day. As the head of the committee — um, there are two of us — I have been hoeing it up in such a different way from the late ’90′s. On prep day I was so engrossed in where the boulders and Mexican Sage should be placed, I lost the keys to Mark’s catering van (sorry honey!) Felt like such a bimbo.

So, this vid is from a calmer time. In between volunteering for tasks that are really too much for me. I’m very proud of how well Vivien is reading, but she sees her older brother playing games on his iPad and is gravitating toward this, so a friend in Australia pointed me to this app as a way to bridge this.