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10 Reasons Why I Am Grateful This Thanksgiving
I live in the East Fernando Valley. The rest of my family resides in various pockets of the Inland Empire – an hour away without traffic, and a slow multi-hour freeway crawl on a holiday like...
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Mary Had a Little Dog ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥
My husband Tom is a huge animal lover. In his early 20’s he worked for a veterinarian tending to beloved sick and wounded pets, and later he was employed at the Wildlife Way Station caring for wild...
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Catch the Red Eye!
No, this post isn’t about hopping a midnight flight from LA to DC. In fact, I’m one of the few people I know who hasn’t flown an airplane since before 9-11. It has nothing to do with the fear of...
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As One “Dirty Job” Ends, Another One Begins
After eight fun-filled yet horribly repulsive seasons, the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs has been canceled. Crawling through garbage, vomit, sewage, yucky muck, wiggly insects, or as host Mike...
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What’s the Statute of Limitations on Mailing Christmas Cards?
Some say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If that is the case, then Christmas cards officially drive me insane. Every year I swear...
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The Happiest Place on Earth Meets the Most Crowded Place on Earth
Our family in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle In 2006 when my son Jake was born I invented a fantasy about Fantasyland. My dream was that in the year 2012 we would take the whole family to Disney...
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My New Year’s Resolution this Year: No More Resolutions!
There is one topic of conversation today that dominates all others: New Year’s resolutions. Correction. For this year only, everyone’s talking about surviving the Fiscal Cliff. However, a close second...
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Baby, It’s Freakin’ Cold Outside!
I was born to be born in sunny Southern California, but man oh man, it has been really cold lately. Not just cold for me and my abnormally warm blood, but so cold it’s the main topic of conversation,...
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How Do You Feed 50,000 Visitors?
It’s time to stock up on lemonade and homemade muffins because as of around noon yesterday, I have had 50,000 visitors. It’s a good thing I have a lemon tree. To a website like The Huffington Post or...
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Don’t Give Me Cooties!
Restaurants, florists and jewelry shops would like to convince you that Valentine’s Day is for lovers. And that passion will grow if you just fork out a fortune at a crowded restaurant, buy a dozen...
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Happy Father’s Day to the Guy Who Knocked Me Up!
Life was pretty simple for Tom in the fall of 2004. He owned a tiny, unkempt home in Van Nuys and his three dogs happily roamed the huge yard filled with knee-high weeds. His roommate Travis was a...
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Is My Husband on Steroids?
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the use – or rather abuse – of performance enhancing drugs in sports. Twelve Major League Baseball players were recently suspended for 50 games each, Lance...
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The End of the Blog Hiatus
I tried to stop time. But time won. The problem with having a blog called Very VERY Busy Mom is that it implies that if I am busy enough to warrant the second VERY in the title, when the heck do I find...
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Very VERY Busy Stagnation
During the summer when I’m on hiatus from work and the kids are off school, the world is my oyster and the possibilities are endless. I wake up in the morning excited about my choices for the day....
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The Mom Olympics
Pumping up for the Mom Olympics I’ve never really been into spectator sports, unless of course it involves watching my 5-year old son in Toluca Baseball and praying that he stops playing in the dirt. I...
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Be Prepared: Massacring the Boy Scout Motto on a Cub Scout Campout
Last week I went on my very first Cub Scout campout. More specifically, I went on my very first Cub Scout campout with my 5-year old son Jake, which makes it sound so much more legitimate than the...
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I’m a Half Century Old Today!
I got my AARP card in the mail this week. For those of you who have been living in a Forever 21 store or in front of the Jersey Shore all your short lives, AARP is the advocacy group promoting issues...
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10 Reasons Why I Am Grateful This Thanksgiving
I live in the East Fernando Valley. The rest of my family resides in various pockets of the Inland Empire – an hour away without traffic, and a slow multi-hour freeway crawl on a holiday like...
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Mary Had a Little Dog ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥
My husband Tom is a huge animal lover. In his early 20’s he worked for a veterinarian tending to beloved sick and wounded pets, and later he was employed at the Wildlife Way Station caring for wild...
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