{"id":789,"date":"2010-09-19T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/09\/mental-meanderings-of-me.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:03:01","slug":"mental-meanderings-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/09\/mental-meanderings-of-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Mental Meanderings of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>We had a young single woman we know over for dinner on Friday night.\u00a0 She was talking about marriage and how the people she knows don\u2019t really know if that \u201cpiece of paper\u201d is really all that important.\u00a0 I was beginning in on a long winded explanation of why marriage is a good thing, when my husband said in his calm and quiet voice, \u201cIt\u2019s good for your soul.\u00a0 I don\u2019t just mean in the go-to-Heaven way.\u00a0 Marriage brings you joy and calm and peace.\u00a0 I honestly don\u2019t know where I\u2019d be without my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sigh\u2026.he\u2019s pretty dreamy.<\/p>\n<p>***********************************************************<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what my three year old will grow up to be, but I\u2019m pretty sure he won\u2019t be an English teacher.\u00a0 This weekend, he said to me:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy cup is yuck.\u00a0 You shall be please to be washing my cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow shall to be that flag get up there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About his little brother..\u201dCan I want to kiss him?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>I would like to find the previous owner of our house and let him know that he\u2019s not as handy as he imagines himself to be.\u00a0 Note to him: you can\u2019t hot glue pipes together, or install showers without shower pans or paint the outside of a house with interior paint.\u00a0 Just because it\u2019s pretty doesn\u2019t mean it works.<\/p>\n<p>Please hire professionals next time.<\/p>\n<p>***********************************************************<\/p>\n<p>We were hanging out with friends this afternoon and playing a version of the Newlywed Game.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t miss a single question about the Computer Guy.\u00a0 My friend was surprised that I got them all correct.\u00a0 I\u2019m not.\u00a0 I love him.<\/p>\n<p>***********************************************************<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m weaning the baby this week.\u00a0 It\u2019s time.\u00a0 It makes me sad that he won\u2019t be as much a baby, but glad to get my body back.<\/p>\n<p>***********************************************************<\/p>\n<p>I took my daughter bra shopping this weekend.\u00a0 Why are my bras plain and boring, but hers can\u2019t be bought in a plain version?\u00a0 The closest we found were beige with rhinestones in a heart.\u00a0 Who do they think is going to be seeing it?\u00a0 She\u2019s 13. 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