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Miss-Speak #47 – Bums Are Awesome!

#47 To the tune of Lego Movie’s Everything Is Awesome. Roughly, anyway: Miss: (tunelessly) AAAAAAIR-verything is awe-summmmmmmm, when you’re living in a dweammmmmm….! Dogs! Cats! Fwogs! They’re awe-sum! Socks! Cwocs! Bum-bums! Awe-sum! Miss: <starts to trail off> Sticks… Bum-bums… Things… … Continue reading

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Miss-fashion

This mealtime the Miss decided her outfit needed……….. a bit of a leg up.  

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Strong Is The New Pretty, This Friday…

1) Strong Is The New Pretty. Photographer mum’s depiction of her sporty, fearless daughters, aged 6 and 9. The Miss would be sooo fascinated by this last, because it involves two huge loves for her – water, and a BALL. Throw … Continue reading

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Wordless(ish) Wednesday: Little Kids Learning Coding

Rockstar has not yet come of age to make school Coding Club, but we found this particular external course over the recent Easter break specifically for younger kids (min age 7. No, Rockstar was not the youngest). Why yes, they … Continue reading

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Rockstarism #363/ Miss-Speak #46 – A Very Solomon Solution

#363/ #46 Me (to Rockstar): So which place did you want to research for your assignment? (Before Rockstar can respond) Miss: Nooooo. Stop. Talking. Noooooo. Me: Fine. You have homework too. Then we start on yours first. Me (to Miss): … Continue reading

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Found The Pet Pet Magazine!

Couple months ago I started receiving emails from a reader I don’t know, asking me to post some of JD’s appearances in Pet Pet Magazine and looking for some copies for a magazine collection. The conversation progressed eventually to the … Continue reading

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Rockstars Do “Disposable Furniture” – with the help of Ikea, of course

Uh… Why yes, because scrawling on the furniture with permanent ink/ paint marker seemed attractive… This is an untreated wood cabinet from Ikea, that the Rockstars are scrawling all over. Cost of this thing in the wall + delivery and … Continue reading

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Choice and Parenting Un-weekender

1) You knew it had to happen… *sshole dogs being shamed for their crimes. Because they aren’t likely to have Facebook accounts someday. (Real ones.) So here’s proving it’s not the size of the dog in the fight…… – – 2) The … Continue reading

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Miss-speak #45 – What I Want To Be When I Grow Up…

#45 Miss: Now Miss is a kid, but when I grow up, I will be just like Bright Stanley. Me: As in… the goldfish? Miss: I drink farts. (Uh… there’ve been discussions between the Rockstars about farting in bath water…) … Continue reading

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Miss-speak #44 – Random Things The Miss Says

#44 On Lego Movie Darth Vader’s voice: Miss: Black Guy has sand in nose? On flower bits: Miss: Eeeeee the purple thing so. Dis. Gusting On….. Something: While putting a bit of strawberry on her nose…. Miss: Strawberry very slimey … Continue reading

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