When the monarchy crumbles, write a self help guide

March 2, 2011

Tweet Guest post by Hyacinth Bean My name is Princess Hyacinth.  I am a royal Pekingnese descendant.  I was one of six offspring to King Aldrich and Queen Adalgisa.  By a strange twist of fate of which my understanding is very limited, I was adopted by Jenny Bean. . . . Sometimes I wonder if […]

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A Friday feature

February 25, 2011

Tweet For her inaugural Featured Favorite Blogger Friday, my bloggy pal Nicole of the Better Half Blogs did a Bean profile, and I’m tickled blue (unfortunately, we don’t do pink around here).  So if you get a chance hop on over to Nicole’s and say hi.

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Why we can’t go to heaven right now

February 23, 2011

Tweet The preface With a materialistic brother who has two and a half years on him, Moose learned from a tender age how to take up for himself.  Once when he was 9 months old, I was in the kitchen when I heard a ruckus brewing.  I ran into the living room fully prepared to […]

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Little engineers, part II

February 18, 2011

Tweet Guest post by Papa in response to Little engineers, yogurt catastrophes, ghosts and private investigators I ignored the wasp nest under the eve for a long time.  Then one day I looked up, and there it was as big as Dallas.  Those guys had been working their little sharp needle asses off.  Someone had […]

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Little engineers, yogurt catastrophes, ghosts and private investigators

February 16, 2011

Tweet Donor 1909 is an engineer. I was a liberal arts major.  I have no understanding of anything mechanical.  I suck at science and barely passed astrology, and biology is so foreign to me that I had to go to a reproductive endocrinologist to get pregnant.  My sense of direction is so bad that I […]

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Happy Saint Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2011

Tweet How can you not love this holiday that boasts red and pink hearts, romance, roses, Godiva chocolates, champagne and little cupids soaring around with bows and arrows? And what makes it even more special for me is that I found out on this day five years ago that I was pregnant with my first Baby […]

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All points bulletin: an escaped Moose

February 9, 2011

Tweet Preface:  Before the arrival of the little Beans, I had preconceived ideas about parenting.  My children, a boy and a girl, would be beautiful, precocious, obedient, witty and charming.  Their rooms would be immaculate; their behavior, beyond reproach; and their manners, an example for all.  We would not have tantrums, black eyes, or finicky […]

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Family emergencies, lies and Match.com: Papa fesses up

February 2, 2011

Tweet Note:  last week’s post was a prelude to this one.  You should read it first. It was a particularly arduous day for a Friday.  Mimi was out of town.  Aunt Belle, who was supposed to be helping Papa with the boys, had an emergency.  (I’m not sure what the emergency was, but it must […]

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Social Beans

January 26, 2011

Tweet Beans are very social.  We don’t like to be alone.  If we are alone, we pick up the phone, we text,* we Skype, we Tweet, we IM on Facebook, but we stay connected.  (This does not include Mimi who married into the Bean family and who thinks we are crazy.)  Some of the members […]

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Bean funnies

January 19, 2011

Tweet Beans say and do some funny things, but not all of them warrant an entire post, so I write them down on little scraps of paper that I find floating all of over the house, in the car, in my desk at work, in my coat pockets and even in Rooster’s bed.  I finally […]

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