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in my house i don't allow a certain word to ever be used. i don't like it and generally feel it is quite extreme. that word is HATE. i don't even like to use it here...and there is only one thing i have ever considered myself really truly hating - pickles!! i usually use the term despise them. they smell gross, look gross, taste gross and my family loves them. when the kids were little the way they almost slurped at them was enough to make me gag. i usually only by a jar for hubby's birthday or mapboy's. they are usually still around for princess to celebrate with. i know - sad isn't it, but arghg...they are just wrong!!

but this really isn't about pickles...it is about the fact that for the first time in a long time i found myself using the word hate today! you see, it rained and poured here for a week a few weeks back. then it got hot and humid again. and, although this is one time i do question the works of God, there are these pesky little things that love those conditions. MOSQUITOS!!!!! for the past 2 mornings (well really all weekend, but i could just stay inside and ignore their hunger pains) i have walked out the back door into a cloud of these creatures. we have a 2 block walk to the bus stop where then we have to wait about 5 minutes. now, i know, leave the house later right? well, somedays the bus is early and i don't want to miss it and it can't wait for us - so we have our timing down right. but anyways - for the entire time i hear this buzzing in my ear, i feel them on my arms and legs. this morning one had the nerve to try for my nose and mouth. can you believe it!?!? i hadn't even had my coffee finished - he had no idea what he was getting into when he tried that one. i'm sure i look like a wacked out mom to all the cars that drive by. can you imagine seeing some 30 year old women dancing around like she has ants in her pants while 3 or 4 kids just stare at her?? i tell you - what we brave for our little ones!!!

so it is with great sadness that my loatheing of pickles is surpassed by the mighty mosquito.

ahh...life!

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