It’s wonderful day at Maison Bean

October 26, 2011

Tweet Papa responds to My Son and My Moon Blah, blah and double blah. You’re giving me a song worm. “It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood. It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Won’t you be mine? Won’t you be my neighbor?” Just think—you could’ve been a writer for Mr. Rogers. Jenny, you need […]

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My son and my moon

October 19, 2011

Tweet Jax: Moose, do you want to play with me? Moose: Nah. Jax: Mommy, we’re going to have to buy another baby so I have somebody to play with me. Not an idea I’m willing to entertain, so I play Go Fish with him, and I lose. We play again. I lose again, and it […]

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St. Tropez: resurrecting the Paris diaries

October 12, 2011

Tweet Note: many moons ago when Mimi was still teaching school and I was in graduate school, I spent a year in Paris writing my thesis and teaching English to French college students. It was a year full of adventures and a visit from Mimi was no exception. Since I didn’t have a post for this week, […]

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A letter to Jenny from Papa

October 7, 2011

Tweet Note:  A day after Mimi, the little Beans and I returned from our trip, I received this letter.  I could not publish it here, however, without including my response to Papa’s nonsense. Jenny, I thought the plan was for you guys to hang around Deadville for a few weeks and take an extended vacation in […]

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He changed the world

October 6, 2011

Tweet “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently … they’re not fond of rules…. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they […]

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Lilli’s dog has OCD

October 5, 2011

Tweet My friend Lillianna called tonight. It seems her dog Bear has been diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and this is why I don’t really have a post today…. because I was on the phone with Lilli for two hours discussing Bear’s prognosis when I should have been blogging. I am also recovering from an […]

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Doctors, ducks and the hospitality industry

September 28, 2011

Tweet Confession: it wasn’t really Hyacinth’s fault that I didn’t post last week…. It was Papa’s. I was kind of excited when I received the announcement that my doctor of 20 years had become affiliated with a VIP wellness program. Visions of yoga classes, massages and botox danced through my head. And then I read […]

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Hyacinth ate my post

September 21, 2011

Tweet              There she is all sleepy after eating the post I’d written for today.  She’s a bit naughty, but we love her anyway. I’ll try to have something soon, but in the meantime, if you feel like commenting, have at it. XOXO, Jenny

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Bean funnies

September 14, 2011

Tweet by Jenny with assistance from Papa Someone is beating on the back door. I look out the window. It’s Papa. Papa: Open up. Me: Say please. Papa: White Russian. I open the door.

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I called Gateway and got India

September 7, 2011

Tweet It was Saturday night. In the office, Papa and Jax were bonding. Papa was watching a chick flick on his computer, and Jax was on the couch watching Scooby Doo on the iPad. Moose, as usual was running around naked, except that this time he had a squeaky ball that he was taunting Rooster […]

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