"Momma!"

I hear this word a LOT.

"Momma!"

"Mommaaaaa...."

"MOMma!"

This word is usually followed by the words, "can I."

Bill Cosby said it best when he said, "I did not have children so you all could change my name to Dad-Can-I." And I feel the same way. I did not have children so they could change MY name to "Momma-Can-I."

"Momma, can I play outside?" Sure. Go outside. Run around. Wear yourselves out. The...
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Today has been...entertaining to say the least. My son Jory had school like normal, despite the ice on the ground. It was me and my daughter Lizzie mostly, my husband spends his rare days off in and out of the house. I decided to bake some chocolate-chip cookie bars today, and naturally, Lizzie had to help.

She dragged a dining room chair into the kitchen, pushed it up against the counter, and climbed up to help. I measured, she dumped. I opened, she poured. We both stirred, and then ...
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I have some excellent news. Most of you know that my son, Jory, had been sexually abused in a daycare setting. Well, we've been playing cat-and-mouse with getting [Jory's abuser] into the courtroom.

Last month, we were subpoenaed. Jory was needed to testify. I called the paralegal a few days beforehand, to find out what I needed to bring, if anything. She told us that [Jory's abuser] had decided to plead guilty, and not only was Jory's testimony not needed, but we didn't even have to ...
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Okay, I watch the Blue Collar Comedy Tour a lot. I watch the Blue Collar boys together on the DVDs, and I watch them separately. I love them all, but my favorite is Bill Engvall and his "Here's Your Sign" bits. (Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be a Redneck" isn't too far behind.) Not a workday goes by when I don't think those three little words: "Here's Your Sign." I wonder what gets into people sometimes. I really do. On Sundays, I work in drive-through. The stupidity there is rampant. Person comes...
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Oh, what a week this has been. First my computer crashes last Saturday. Totally crashes. It freezes up, gives me one last, forlorn beep, and dies. Unable to revive it, I rush it to the nearest emergency center, Best Buy's "Geek Squad." They test it for a while, and it passes everything. When they attempted to restart it, though, it took forever and a day, like it had been doing for several weeks now. So they insisted that I "check it in" for further diagnostics, which I did. Thoroughly depresse...
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