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True Tales of the Family

Somebody plug that hole!

by Kathi D on September 15, 2008

As many of you may know, much of the population of California has historically been the result of a slow leak in the Midwest portions of the country, causing residential spillage to the West. I believe we at La Casa de Puppies may be absorbing more than our fair share of the drips. First, The [...]

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Porta-Potties stink

by Kathi D on June 23, 2008

I was thinking of proclaiming this Embarrassing Stories Week, but I’m not sure now. After all, I pretty much tell something embarrassing about myself daily or thereabouts anyway. All I can say about the week ahead is, “We’ll see.” Which, as you know, is ParentSpeak for “If you ask me about that again, I will [...]

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Mom and Dad were industrious types, like their Irish-English ancestors before them. (Unfortunately, they became the end of the family line in that trait.) So it didn’t surprise me that they spent half a day picking grapes at a pick-your-own-grapes place shortly before I arrived for a visit. It didn’t even surprise me that they [...]

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A little bedtime story

by Kathi D on April 26, 2008

Meaning, it’s my bedtime and I need to write a story. So I dive into the Wayback Machine for a True Tale of the Family. When my sister was expecting her third child, she tried to get my three-year-old and four-year-old nephews invested in the idea of a new baby brother or sister. She bought [...]

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