Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word Jaycie. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.
“You’ve inspired me,” Sister #2 said, waving Max’s copy of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing at me. I had invited myself over for dinner. A few months ago I decided to include childhood favorites as a part of my 2010 reading plan, and Tales was one of the first books I revisited. Last night [...]
I was on my way home from the grocery store waiting for a red light when I noticed the lady behind me doing something unusual. I watched her in the rearview mirror as she held up a page of negative sleeves up to the sun. Wow, I thought. That’s a blast from the past. When’s [...]
Yesterday I rode to Rock & Roll Bookclub with Jaycie, Ben, and Max. I’m not sure how we got on the topic but Max was waxing eloquently on the awesomeness of MonsterQuest and how I should spend my time watching it. “Eh,” I said from the front seat, “It’s not my thing.” “But they talk [...]
I. On Sunday I made a creamy cauliflower soup. It involved pureeing and that frightened me. Plus, I had the divide the recipe in half, so there was math that also frightens me. It turned out delightful and silky and it is so good I’m a little sad that I didn’t have anyone to share [...]
Max calls his Winkletoe and Jaycie’s is Sparkletoe. Cade called his Wushy. Liam calls his D.T., because that’s what Nolan called his. Mine’s called Blackhole Sun, a nickname given to it by my college roommate F.R. Chicken because of its resemblance to an afghan that can be seen in the Soundgarden video. The blanket doesn’t [...]
There is much controversy that swirls around the Holiday Cookie Bakeathon. This year, the 2nd annual, was rife with conflict much of it caused by last year’s bakeathon dubbed “The Great Snubbing of Aught-Eight.” Last year Sister #2 decided she’d ring in the holidays by baking cookies for all her family and friends. Then she [...]
When writing the traditional Thanksgiving post a blogger can go one of two ways –mushy and sincere or withering and sarcastic. Both have their bits of predictability — I’m thankful for my family and health and house and friends and blah OR I’m thankful that I live in a world where Matt Lauer talks about [...]
Some of the heartiest of Minnesotans might thing it was a moral failing on my part to take off virtually an entire week because of a cold. Those people can blow me. There is nothing fun about being sick and there’s nothing good or productive about doing a half-ass job while being sick. No, taking [...]
We were all over at Sister #2′s house for a Labor Day Weekend barbecue, and because Sister #4 was back from South Dakota for the weekend. We were sitting there eating corn on the cob. “Oh, by the way,” I said. “I taught Jaycie and Max about transsexuals Friday.” Sister #2 put down her cob. [...]
We eat cereal for lunch: Though sometimes we make our own pizzas: And then we do crafts:
Did I tell you about that headache I got on Thursday after going to IKEA and while having lunch with Melanie at that Indian place we love, a headache so bad I could only crawl into bed, whimper, and sleep until 4:30 and was still so shaky and out of it I skipped my first [...]
To celebrate the last day of Aunt Jodi’s daycare (I’m going back to only having the Tibbles once a week), we had a Flugoo Carnival. Jaycie and Max organized the event complete with tickets, prizes, and games. Before the Carnival we started out by making our own Flugoos, and we followed up the Carnival with [...]
This here is Max & Jaycie sitting with me on the steps of the Basilica. They are chanting “Urban Spoon, Urban Spoon, Urban Spoon” because they are brats who like to drive me crazy. There’s an Urban Spoon iPhone app that helps you choose a place to eat. It’s pretty cool. However, despite what Jaycie [...]
Last night at Rock & Roll Bookclub, I was talking to Jaycie about her recent trip to Florida, all the babysitting money she has ($65!), and how she scored tickets for the upcoming JoBros concert (very exciting). As we were discussing all the things she loves, I asked her if she was going to checkout [...]
One might think the absence of Whore Bus on this Sunday morning would be a blessing in disguise. One might think I would use this “extra” time to actually clean Supergenius HQ before my annual Superbowl date with the TTHM. Any reasonable person would think all these things. However, I am not a reasonable person. [...]
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