http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee recent pleonast.com entries by user mmmcoffee en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=601978 - i finally cut Lydia some bangs. That child and her hair in her face. She looks like a street waif 90% of the time. She has hair like mine, thin and slippery, so no matter what hair clip or ponytail you put in, it slowly slides on out. What was so funny was how jazzed she was while i was cutting the bangs. I expected it to be major unhappiness, but instead she got all excited and couldn't wait to see herself in the mirror. I caught her looking at herself in the mirror afterward several times, and she came to me once in the kitchen asking me how to arrange her bangs because she didn't know how. She's four. I just didn't expect that reaction from her. If you knew her you'd know what I mean. But I could totally relate to the boost it gives you to get a new hairdo. Now if only my haircuts were free. - Guess who teared up and got upset when I told her I wasn't cutting bangs on her? I just hate to cut her pretty hair, and she always keeps her hair out of her face. sigh. I told her I'd cut ... 2008-11-22 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=600184 This is a story of a girl who conducted an experiment in the spirit of tolerance promoted by the Obama campaign. Tolerance fails T-shirt Test 2008-11-17 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=597186 Michael was on the couch reading a Sesame Street book to the girls this morning. Lydia pipes up and says, "Excuse me! I need to pause it. I have to go potty." 2008-11-08 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=593669 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill was tired of someone stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard. Turschak, with a degree in electrical engineering, hooked up a third sign to a power source for an electric pet fence Monday and also put up a surveillance camera. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that a 9-year-old boy with an Obama-Biden sign grabbed the McCain-Palin sign and got a jolt on Tuesday. The boy's father, Andrew Noble, upset that his son had been shocked, showed up at Turschak's door. Soon an Orange County sheriff's deputy also showed up at the Turschak's home. Noble said his son just wanted to see how the sign was put together. Turschak said the boy intended to swap out the signs. Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said he doesn't plan to file charges. ___ Information from: The News & Observer, http://www.newsobserver.com 2008-10-31 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=593552 on the night before Halloween. and I still have to make Abby's costume. thankfully, she chose a ghost. 2008-10-31 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=592165 we are a sad sight at the Holland house. Michael's got tonsillitis, laryngitis, and seems to be running a fever. I've got the same gunk, and as I sit typing this I have a tissue stuffed up each nostril to stop the drip. Both girls are sick too. Abby coughed all night. Welcome fall! and the requisite cold that comes with it. why do the germs wait until it is cold to attack you? 2008-10-27 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=588401 I have girly girl girls. No tomboys for me. High drama, oscar-worthy emoting and pink frothy clothing is part of our six and four year old's every day life. I was recently amused to note a new trend in their pretend play. They choose whatever barbie or figurine they feel is most appropriate to their story line, then they choose a Disney soundtrack for their CD player. They don't play the big money-maker signature ballad songs like 'A whole new world' or 'A dream is a wish your heart makes'. Instead, they select an instrumental number that is usually something from a crisis point in the movie, like fight scenes or sorrow scenes. Then they blare this at the highest volume and shut their bedroom door. Then I can hear them in there making up a high drama story line to match the tone of the music. It really cracks me up. They suggest lines for one another. Anyhoo, I was laughing to myself trying to picture my friends' little boys doing anything like this. 2008-10-17 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=587535 We went to the Georgia National Fair (isn't that an oxymoron?) in Perry last week. Thanks for the tipoff!. The weather was humid and sprinkly, but no real rain. The whole fair experience hasn't changed one iota since I was a young girl going to the NC state fair. All the sounds and smells and rides and games (and carnies) are the exact same. It was a fun walk down memory lane. Oh yeah, one thing has changed. The PRICES. We only did two rides, but the girls really enjoyed the entire day. We walked around to all the displays and animal pens. I got a kick out of seeing all these tiny kids manhandling animals twice their size. My two watched them herd the animals with eyes as big as saucers and legs poised in flight mode. We definitely are not raising farm girls here. ha! 2008-10-14 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=584864 Taken from Ben Franklin's Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA They were in deadlock while composing our constitution, and this was his proposal to the President: "I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall be become a reproach and a bye word down to future age. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter this unfortunate instance... 2008-10-08 http://www.pleonast.com/user/mmmcoffee?l=5&entryID=583351 what should I say. I dunno. Ok I give up. (apathy) 2008-10-04