Tag: home alone
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Home Alone: The joke you may have missed
“That’ll be $122.50.” “Ugh…it’s my brother’s house. He’ll take care of it.” It’s that time of year when holiday movies are on heavy rotation, and up there with the absolute best of them is Home Alone (save me a slice plain cheese). Last night I watched the Christmas classic and was reminded of a line…
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Staying Home: 11 Things We’re Doing
Feeling anxious? Me too. These are wild times. Hang in there, I’m here for you. Also, here are 11 things we are doing to keep our sanity: 1. Lunch Doodles with famed children’s book author/illustrator Mo Willems. 2. Cincinnati Zoo’s Home Safari at 2pm CST. Yesterday we learned about porcupines. 3. Highlights Grade Level Workbooks.…
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With Happy Hearts
This pillow encapsulates our Christmas season. And our year, actually. A year with painful goodbyes and stitched up hearts. A year of warmth and growth. I’ll remember this year as the one where Wells chimed in reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,’ alternating pages with Fitz and I while Gus listened. I’ll recall how Fitz…
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Christmas & Other Things
New stockings to welcome the newest family member (Putter the dog) Annual holiday party, with candied bacon winning again for best bite A Home Alone-themed party in which Fitz dressed as Gus Polinski, polka king of the Midwest (he took clarinet lessons, people. CLARINET LESSONS) Hot tea, green juice, water, repeat (also: prayers for my…
Kelly Q. Anderson 