Author Archives: a. sprout

Choices

By a. sprout | Published: February 11, 2012
I just filled out the school choice form (online of course) for M.  I think maybe I’ll stop having panic attacks now. This is so very far away from the K-12 school I went to until fourth grade.  Not to mention, I was home schooled for Kindergarten so I have absolutely no idea how it [...]
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I know we don’t talk much.

By a. sprout | Published: February 8, 2012
I know I’m a bad blogger who doesn’t do enough commenting elsewhere, but I need some crowd sourcing help. M, it appears, will NOT clean her room.  She says she is cleaning, but she plays.  She is actively lying to our face about what she is doing.  She tries to stall, asking for something specific [...]
Posted in The Kiddo | 7 Comments

Can’t Be Good At Everything (aka World’s Ugliest Cake Pops)

By a. sprout | Published: February 4, 2012
I thought, all kinds of people make cake pops, I can make cake pops.  How hard can it be? I need to make cake pops.  Cake pops will make me a better mom.  Cake pops will up the wow factor for impressing people at the potlucks at work, and everyone knows the best kind of [...]
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Pixie(Stix)

By a. sprout | Published: February 2, 2012
So, the thing with curly hair, especially if you have my kind of curly hair, is that you really have like one style option.  Sure, it may be different lengths, but really it is just variations on the curly haired bob.  Maybe longer, maybe shorter, maybe a few layers, maybe a lot, but the same [...]
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