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When the baby is screaming and the toddler is shaving the cat: Wine Please

Pictures from the Health Care Rally at the Capitol Building

Colleen | November 6, 2009

I think the pictures and the captions say more than I could. While I got there too late to catch the speakers (which I greatly regret), I still got to see all the people, all their t-shirts, all their signs, and, like when I went to the Tax Day Tea Party in April, got [...]

Mrs. Rummel Goes to Washington

Colleen | November 5, 2009

Again.
Don’t know about the rest of you, but this whole Health Care debacle…nearly 2,000 pages of non-transparent crap that essentially says the government would like to tax each and every one of us an additional 8-12% for the privilege of letting the government manage our health care for us…has gotten me really riled up. [...]

House of Horrors

Colleen | October 30, 2009

Just in time for Halloween, we at the Wine Please household had our own little House of Horrors. Several weeks back, I picked up the kids from daycare and the gal working the front desk casually mentioned that there were two confirmed cases of Swine Flu…one in the Jr Kindergarten class, and one in [...]

Today Was Brought to You by the Letters T and W, and by the Number 8

Colleen | July 8, 2009

This morning it took me 8 minutes of Wrestling a Whiney, Tantruming Toddler in order to brush his Teeth.
Eight minutes!
(I almost called him a Two year old, but uh, at the rate he’s going, he may not make it till Sunday.)
I lost my Temper about 8 times this morning, too, due to said Toddler and [...]

Banging My Head

Colleen | February 12, 2009

And not while doing devil horns at 80’s hair band music.
No. Just banging my head on any vaguely solid surface because my car wouldn’t start tonight when I tried to leave work. We suspect the starter, or maybe possibly the alternator. But we think the battery is alright since we’ve only had [...]