Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Nov 5, 2009, 12:32 am
I could see Jonathan's 4-year old friend Ryan with his hand up to Jonathan's face, but I couldn't see what he was doing. "Ryan? What are you doing?" I asked. "Picking Johnny's booger...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Nov 3, 2009, 10:46 pm
Jonathan and I went to a community Halloween party in the park last week. He dressed up as Spiderman, of course, and found another Spiderman who he chased around all night long. There was one game, ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Nov 3, 2009, 6:34 am
JCK's post from the other day really hit home for me Monday, when I finally found time to read it. The post was essentially about parents who spend so much time on their cellphones or Blackberri...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Nov 2, 2009, 11:30 am
I have stumbled across a few new, favorite blogs of late. I'm not saying the blogs are new, but they are new for me. There is one that is new for me and somewhat new too, but I know the author in ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 31, 2009, 4:16 pm
Not all of us survived trick-or-treating Most of the members of my family survived, and enjoyed trick-or-treating. However, one member didn't come back alive. I know. I know. I'm fr...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 30, 2009, 4:50 pm
Does Barbie have fat ankles? What do you think? Designer Christian Louboutin thinks she does! Debate it at PR Graffiti on a piece I wrote for "Shout It!" While you are there, submit your own Graffiti ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 30, 2009, 3:59 am
When you go to a pumpkin farm you expect to buy pumpkins, or at least see more than one corner of the farm. Last Sunday I thought Jonathan, my parents, and I might only see one corner of a farm not fa...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 29, 2009, 3:25 am
When you're three you want to be sure the adults around you listen to you and know exactly what you want. I'm sure that is why Nora and Kailee were so astute in expressing themselves during c...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 28, 2009, 1:19 am
Last year Jonathan refused to wear his Halloween costume and in the end we spent a lonely, depressing night at home. A week later he wanted to wear the Superman costume and continued to wear ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 26, 2009, 10:59 pm
Apparently there is only one way for me to get on my son's good side. By beating him up. No, you are not reading a confession about me somehow abusing my child. In fact my child asks to be beat up...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 24, 2009, 6:08 pm
Hubby actually let me buy groceries today. It's kind of his "thing" and has been since Jonathan was born. I asked him to do it one time and now he's taken it over. I realize I should be happ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 23, 2009, 3:21 am
Jonathan and I have some of our most interesting conversations either while he's in the bathtub or I'm getting him ready to get in the tub. . . One night this week Jonathan pointed at me, ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 22, 2009, 3:30 am
Are the changes of my blog design driving you crazy yet? I can't help it. Seriously. I see shiny things and I run to them. Oooh--pretty lights...Excuse me....where was I?Oh. Right! Shiny things!Se...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 21, 2009, 3:35 am
I know it seems like I don't like cats, based on this post and then this post, but I do like cats. I love cats. I just don't like when they stink or when they sneeze or drool on me, which is w...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 20, 2009, 9:31 am
While I'm waiting for programs to open on my super, super slooow computer at work, I thought I'd kick out this vent on working for a small town newspaper. First, I love my job. Second, I love ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 19, 2009, 12:32 am
There has been a shift in our house over the last couple of months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. There was a time when I was all Jonathan wanted. Daddy was cool when I was around and eve...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 18, 2009, 5:05 pm
I picked up a new book for Jonathan this week. It was written by a local author. The illustrations inside are breathtaking. It's called "Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep," by Maureen Wright. (And, no, I...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 15, 2009, 10:05 pm
Grandma would have been 100 years old this year. I have trouble thinking of her any other way than laughing, her head tilted back in the sun. She was 89 years old, sitting by the ditch behind...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 15, 2009, 6:59 am
Don't forget that today is Picnikpallooza at Views Beyond the Lens! Join in if you'd like! Add your link and I'll add it to my post later today! Also, I've had a couple readers commen...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 14, 2009, 7:00 am
Jonathan: "Isaiah! Look! I think I've found some mud! Let's go get into it!" Isaiah: Buddy, I think we should just slide. That's a safer and cleaner activity for us to participate in....
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 13, 2009, 2:10 pm
... So-and-so," she said, with a confused smile. "You didn't?" dad said. "Nope. Never did, " she said. There was a brief pause and then she said, "Oh. Wait. first wife worked at Dr. So-and-So...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 13, 2009, 12:00 am
I've been thinking a lot about the Swine Flu (no Brother, not wondering if if I have it). I've been thinking, more accurately, about whether or not to get the vaccine for Jonathan. I'm ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 12, 2009, 12:59 am
It's Monday's Random Musing time from Mrs. Nurse Boy at Poop on Jelly. The lady with the gorgeous kids who have amazing smiles! *Updated: So I don't forget, I'm making Thursday Picnik...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 8, 2009, 10:39 pm
"Well, it's time for him to be in bed anyhow, isn't it?" That's what my mom says sometimes when I'm on the phone with her late at night and Jonathan throws a fit about so...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 8, 2009, 8:31 am
I tried to tell myself reading this didn't bother me. I tried to tell myself seeing this didn't affect me. It did. It reminded me how much I love to hold him and how lucky I am to be able ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 7, 2009, 12:39 am
When is the right time for baby number two? A few weeks ago,  during an otherwise nightmarish pediatrician appointment with Jonathan at our local hospital, I heard the bells. The bells that play...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 7, 2009, 12:30 am
My WordFUL Wednesday for this week is about Fall in Pennsylvania and can be found at Views Beyond the Lens.  I accidentally hit "publish" on the post below, so I also have a new post up here about w...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 5, 2009, 3:40 am
Cat Area Supervisor. That's what the woman's title was. I was typing her name into the computer for a caption to be published in the newspaper I work at. Suddenly I wanted to be the Cat Area...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 3, 2009, 7:36 pm
A co-worker of mine shared her hatred of her childrens’ cat the other day. The cat is an indoor/outdoor cat, meaning no cat pans for Co-Worker to clean. That's the only thing she likes about ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Oct 1, 2009, 9:53 pm
It's sometimes said that a person's life can be like a stone thrown in a pond. Some create small ripples that flow out and stop, never touching another circle of life. Some people fall into th...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 30, 2009, 9:59 am
My niece fell in love this weekend at my hometown fall festival. Her object of affection was probably in his 20's, handsome, nice eyes, very polite. My niece apparently told this handsome you...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 28, 2009, 10:25 pm
... I like the career I chose. But I hate what it takes me away from. Are you a stay-at-home mom? Then enjoy it. Embrace it. Love it. On Monday my son cried when I left for work. Later, as Hubby ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 26, 2009, 10:21 pm
I think my son is the next Samson or something. He's determined he will not have a haircut.The last two visits to the hairdresser have resulted in exercises of screaming apparently aimed at bursti...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 25, 2009, 7:07 am
Kid's aren't allowed to play on real playgrounds anymore. Playgrounds with metal slides and wooden teeter-totters and merry-go-rounds you can stand up on while you spin. Now the slides are m...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 23, 2009, 4:46 pm
"Hey, it's Alan."His words bump into each other as he talks. Ah crap. Here we go again. Alan is our local conspiracy theorist. Nope, he's not a Fox News fan. That I know of. However, he is ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 23, 2009, 5:58 am
I have a post up at Views Beyond the Lens for WordFUL Wednesday today and will have a regular post here later today. Come join my Picnikpalooza!
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 22, 2009, 9:16 am
About three months before the Camptown Races Dad starts running near my parents house in the country. During that three months he'll go back and forth on whether he'll really run the races, a ...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 21, 2009, 4:52 am
Hubby bought me a digitally re-mastered version of The Beatles "A Hard Day's Night" for my birthday this weekend. Looking at the photograph on the cover of the album it hit me: My kid really, rea...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 19, 2009, 5:51 pm
Today is my birthday. I'm 32. *sigh* But the best thing about today is that it wasn't about me. Yet, it was. See, it wasn't about me because today my dad ran a race; my son sat on a tee...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 17, 2009, 7:49 pm
 This Small Town is full of the touching, the humorous, the unusual, the bizarre, history, progress, backward ideas and people, love, family, faith, and honor. It is worthy of putting pen to paper or...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 16, 2009, 4:35 pm
It's started. Those comments. Those comments I heard other parents receive and thought 'That won't be said about my kid.' But it is being said. Saturday, it was said twi...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 14, 2009, 9:26 pm
I have a rich history of sticking my foot in my mouth -- all the way up to my thigh. The other day I did it again and by the end of trying to dig myself out of the hole I wanted to crawl under my des...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 14, 2009, 6:34 pm
I neglected to link to my post about anxiety, which was published on The Women's Colony last week. If you would like to read about my journey with anxiety you can click over and also read some oth...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 13, 2009, 10:33 pm
A distant relative invited my family to a family reunion Saturday. Not many people were there. Probably because most of them are dead. Honestly, I'm not even sure how I am related to most of tho...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 12, 2009, 11:17 pm
Jonathan and I visited the playground last weekend. That's where we met Little Non-stop Talking Girl. Little Non-stop Talking Girl is 5. She told me. Little Non-stop Talking Girl is in Kindeegar...
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Lisa H. posted an article on Boondock Ramblings - Sep 10, 2009, 5:52 pm
I was eight and a half months pregnant before it hit me I might give birth to a boy rather than a girl. There was a white-blond haired boy with his grandmother, shopping at the other end of the aisle ...
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