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First Day of School at My House 7 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
For the first time in 25 years, this is my back to school picture. In the first years, gap-toothed kids beamed with excitement, and for the last few years, grudging teenagers have paused and given a ...
Kate Plus Eight Minus Seven: Mothering Advice 24 Apr 2013 | 11:30 pm
source Excitement is mounting as Kate's baby bump has grown into a lump and very soon will emerge as a plump little royal waving a sterling silver rattle. Dear reader, as you well know, Larainy has ...
Let's Get Metaphysical 29 Mar 2013 | 01:27 am
This building used to house a music store where we bought the tall boy's cello, strings and rosin. It is nestled cozily next to a Circle K (where you can get a thirstbuster for $.79 in an insulate...
If You've Got It, Flaunt it Arizona! 26 Mar 2013 | 08:20 pm
If Adam and Eve had been kicked out of the Garden of Eden into my Arizona spring, they might not have noticed...until Eve sat on a cactus and Adam tried to pet a rattlesnake. Soon the Ocotillo spears...
Smash or Splash... That is the Question 21 Mar 2013 | 08:20 pm
You poor little darlings. Did you set your DVR to record and end up with ??? TV-land is tough to navigate when this season alone you have to choose between... SPLASH! A flock of jobless celebr...
If Spring Ain't Broke, Don't Try to Fix It 18 Mar 2013 | 07:55 pm
It is a strange feeling to be running out of children. In the harried, hairy, hair-raising middle of raising five children, sometimes the days seemed longer than the years, and the years of mothering...
Larainy, Where Art Thou? 4 Mar 2013 | 07:40 pm
So sorry to concern all you dear Larainy readers who have been worried about my long, unexplained absence. First of all I need to put to rest some wild internet rumors. a. A golf ball size chunk o...
Quoth the Forty Niners: Nevermore 4 Feb 2013 | 10:25 pm
It's the Monday after the Super Bowl and 89% of Americans are going to work with nacho cheese hangovers. For my nonAmerican readers, and for the unAmerican readers who just pretended they like footba...
Jeepers Al! 1 Feb 2013 | 09:07 pm
Aaaaargh! I barely made it through January and already I am breaking the only New Year's resolution I ever make: I, Larainy, solemnly resolve that I will not comment on the troubled life and times ...
Starting the Second Term Off With a Bang 22 Jan 2013 | 10:40 pm
I can't believe you're up already! Aren't you exhausted from all the inauguration festivities? Oh, you weren't invited? Well neither was I but that is not going to keep me from giving you the insi...