Monthly Archives: June 2011

Things About Summer That Displease Me: A List

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

Summer’s here.  (sarcasm font on) Awesome (sarcasm font off). If you know me, you know that while I try to put on a brave face (okay, not really) I don’t really like summer that much.  I do a LOT of … Continue reading →

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Humiliation in the Shallow End

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

I wanted to disappear.  I wanted to evaporate into a plume of smoke, become invisible, somehow cease to exist.  That’s how humiliated I was.  But, there was no escape.  Pumpkin Pie had said it.  In public.  And I had to … Continue reading →

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An Actual Conversation: We Fear Change

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

Here at Cloud 8, it is a year of change.  This year the boys turn 5, 10, and 13.  Sweet Pea will be a teenager, Pickles has hit the double digits, and Pumpkin Pie will start kindergarten at the big … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger: Olive Oyl and Her Bestest Orange Tootsie Pop

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

My wonderful cousin, Olive Oyl kindly agreed to write a guest post for me today, and it’s awesome! Squeeee! Continue reading →

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A Grown Up Dinner Out With the Shorties

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

A couple of days ago, before this hellish heat wave hit, we were sitting at Pickles playoff baseball game.  Without wasting a bunch of words on it, I will just say that it was a very exciting game, and tempers … Continue reading →

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My Favorite Sweet Pea Story: His Bruther

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

When Sweet Pea was 2 1/2, we were expecting Pickles.  We had explained to Sweet Pea that his brother would be born in the hospital and that he would come home and live here in the house with us.  This … Continue reading →

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An Actual Conversation: Banana Stamps

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

Pumpkin Pie and I were in line at the post office today.  You would have thought it was the last mailing day before Christmas because there were a bazillion people there and there was, count ’em, ONE clerk.  What do … Continue reading →

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Waffle Hunger Strike

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

Like lots of other kids, Sweet Pea is very hungry when he wakes up in the morning.  I mean like keep-your-hands-and-feet-away-from-his-mouth hungry.  Like unhinge-his-jaw-and-pour-the-food-in hungry.  Combine normal adolescent growing hunger with coming off stimulant medication and you have something close … Continue reading →

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Gender Neutral Parenting

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Adventures From Cloud 8

Have you heard about the Canadian couple who has decided not to tell anyone the sex of their new baby?  I mean not anyone.  Not even the adorable munchkin’s grandparents.  Way to alienate your loved ones, guys!  Evidently they want … Continue reading →

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