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While trying to climb the hip mama wagon, she realized she wasn't one. Welcome to the land of the unkempt and nondescript, the house that anxiety built. Web Site: Minnesota Matron Claimed Blog: Minnesota Matron MommyBlips Member since Dec. 7, 2008 |
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 16 hours ago
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The Matron is the unfortunate and complicated situation
of selecting both a Junior High School for next
year's seventh-grader (Scarlett) and a High School for the He Who Remains Invisible and Nameless otherwise known as HWRIN, pronounced RIN. Scarlett requires a special path be paved and she ...
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minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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The Matron will admit to occasionally living in
a blog post. Here she is, standing in line
at the supermarket, composing the scene in her mind: "The Matron is the impatient sort and today's drill did not please." Here she is, reading a student essay, composing the post in her mind: "And because ...
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Blethic
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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Two unrelated notes on language today. First from
The New York Times . The Matron always reads
Sunday's Vows with her morning oatmeal (okay - let's pause and consider oatmeal for a moment. This isn't just any oatmeal,people. You put in a handful of organic blueberries, a dollop of peanut ...
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On Language
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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The Matron will start this post the way
she had planned. The weekend was a bittersweet event.
Photo by George Calger Scarlett had her last two runs as Annie on Friday and Sunday night. Now, the Matron has sat in many an auditorium chair and watched her daughter -- including famous ...
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Change of Events
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Something coming later today, she promises! It's been
a busy and bittersweet spin the past three days.
. . . but the white space of her blog has been haunting her!!!
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Not Forgotten
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
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Astute readers might notice that a certain someone's
name was NOT mentioned in this post . Yes,
there is a direct reference to "the oldest" and more veiled nods in that child's direction. But the Matron was careful not to mention, well, Stryker. Because he told her that this post violated his ...
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The Good Mother
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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"A true war story is never moral. It
does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models
of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things that men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel ...
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Veteran's Day Meditation
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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The Matron genuinely regrets that this is not
fiction. This morning, she set her alarm for 6:15
to get up with the oldest, even though the night before she and her husband had agreed that HE would rise early and she would catch a few more zzzzz's. Matron at 6:15: "Are you getting up?" John: ...
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Control Freak
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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Last week, the Pioneer Press notified the Matron
that HER blog would be featured in a big
piece on Minnesota bloggers! Go Matron! So she spent FOUR hours last week picking for the nits and lice that could potentially get her in trouble if half of the metro area started to read. It was with ...
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More on Her Success So Far
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 12 days ago
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Consider how central fasting is to most religions.
Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam all include major periods of
fasting. Hunger. Yearning. The Matron swears Buddhism is all about how much you don't eat. Why fast? Why abstain? Hungry -- really hungry, not just ten minutes past dinner -- and ...
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Sunday, Meditation
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 14 days ago
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Stryker: "Mom, how much do you and Dad
usually spend on Christmas?" Matron: "Hmmm . . usually
about $500 or $600. Maybe less this year ." Stryker: "Wow! That's terrific! I was worried there for awhile!" The joy in his face gives the Matron slight pause. Matron: "Stryker? That's not $500 ...
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minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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Cause for Concern Number One Given the Matron's
hysteria over Merrick's complete and utter lack of interest
in all things Letter and Word , she dropped a few hysterical hints to Grandma Mary about Headsprout, a nifty online learn-to-read-tool. Of course, Grandma Mary -- being all things ...
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Current Matronly Causes for Concern
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 17 days ago
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Here, a stunning poem that contains a little
bit of joy and her dark side. Join the
Matron in practicing radical kindness today, with our collective vulnerability in mind. How many nights have I lain in terror, O Creator Spirit, maker of night and day, only to walk out the next morning ...
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Meditation
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 17 days ago
minnesotamatron.blogspot.com - 18 days ago
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Over the weekend, the Universe handed the Matron
yet another lesson: Halloween is really Day of the
Dog. What's not to like, from the canine perspective? There's that doorbell, ringing and ringing and ringing and all those people to bark at! Even better: there is candy. If you have ...
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Day of the Dog
