Beware the Gypsy

by on August 12, 2013 at 2:29 pm
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You may be thinking this week will feature the first Ollie comic, but you’d be wrong. We still need some time with this stinker before we get a feel for his personality.

So, on to this week’s comic.

When we adopted CJ & Mia, we learned some interesting [read Horrible] facts. One, was that birth mom was an honest to goodness, real-life gypsy from Chile. Researching Chilean gypsies, we found stories of tourist’s money being taken and turned to dust for blessings, curses given, hexes, and even giving rubber cement to children so they’d stop asking for food. It’s no surprise that when birth mom got an ear infection that brought on deafness, she was subsequently dropped on the side of the road and told “ayekantun” [have a good time].

So in homage to the great Lucy van Pelt, we will be introducing Mia the Gypsy. She’ll be popping up from time to time exacting her revenge on classmates or shaking the tin can for hexes & vexes. Hope you enjoy.

I’m off to get some sleep. Ollie is just falling aslee… oh wait…. he’s hungry again.

Check back for the fun on Wednesday.
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Ollie is born!

by on August 5, 2013 at 4:39 pm
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Forever Family grew by one this week. Ollie is healthy and Mom is doing fine. New blog, comic, and CJ’s comic next week!

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Easy Discipline

by on July 31, 2013 at 2:35 pm
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The appropriate level of discipline is definitely in the eye of the beholder.

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Age vs Jerk

by on July 29, 2013 at 2:47 pm
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There are a lot of books on parenting. There’s a lot of advice thrown around. There’s a constant changing of the minds on what punishment to dole out for every situation under the sun. But there’s no consensus. And this is because children are broken. They are missing a key component that would make parenting them effortless. That piece of lost hardware is a Thought Driven Light Bulb. A light above their head to say either, “I’m doing this because I’m 4” or “I’m doing this because I suck”.

Take a moment and dream how easy parenting could be….

I broke a lamp [because I don’t understand limits] / [because I was being a class A-1 Jerk]
I can’t solve that math problem [I can’t wrap my head around the concept] / [I’m replaying Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in my head]
I hurt a kid [I don’t know my own strength] / [They had it coming!]

The government has spent millions to see if shrimp can run on treadmills and making glow-in-the-dark sheep. Maybe we could spend some of that money on an indicator light for my kid? That way, I know whether to throw him in the hole for an hour or just let his brain keep cooking till it reaches its proper level of doneness.

This week’s comic features a time-honored tradition of punishment. Check back for the fun on Wednesday.
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