tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488578199124136143.post3465429230133576128..comments2023-05-03T05:38:16.200-04:00Comments on PoliTits: Adventures in Real Parenting: Would I lie to you?lisahgoldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11158660223296807317noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488578199124136143.post-86649905915025234492011-08-02T10:50:29.652-04:002011-08-02T10:50:29.652-04:00She sounds like a character! I swear, I would neve...She sounds like a character! I swear, I would never mess with Log Cabin syrup! And my kids have learned my tricks over the years. I do still try to pass off the organic milk in the store milk container sometimes. The organic milk is creamier and the kids are so used to regular skim that they think the creamier version is weird. They're weird. xoxolisahgoldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158660223296807317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488578199124136143.post-25411466296829737112011-07-27T15:37:30.842-04:002011-07-27T15:37:30.842-04:00My best friend from high school has a really bizar...My best friend from high school has a really bizarre mother. She is a sweet lady - just not exactly on the same plane as the rest of us. She was a perpetual student who racked up about 4 degrees - phys. ed., marine biology, French (she was already a native speaker) and something else that I forget, but mostly she got them just by showing up at school. She loved to wear really bright colorful mismatched clothes that she found at the thrift shop and was always trying to get us to wear them too. <br /><br />She took a class in music appreciation one time, and Janet and I were awakened at 3am by a series of ear-splitting high-pitched shrieks that sounded like someone was twisting the heads off kittens. It was Mariette, and she was in tears because she couldn't make the right notes come out of her Tonette. Janet sighed and said, "You have to cover the hole at the bottom, Mom."<br /><br />Mariette was always trying to fool us by such sly tricks as putting powdered milk into a real milk carton. Mostly we were onto her, but one day she got us but good.<br /><br />Janet lived near a big open field filled with blackberry bushes, and on the weekends we would get up on Saturday morning and pick a bucket of blackberries to make pancakes with. Mariette was perpetually trying to convince us to use the ultra-cheap and foul-tasting 'Oh Boy' syrup instead of Log Cabin, but that stuff was heinous and we refused. <br /><br />One Saturday, we came home with a nice full bucket of blackberries, and whipped up an awesome batch of pancakes. Then, we slathered them with butter and syrup, and took a big mouthful - and had to spit it out.<br /><br />Tricky Mariette had gone to the trouble of emptying the Log Cabin bottle and filling it up with 'Oh Boy'. And 'Oh Boy' did it taste like vomit.<br /><br />Chalk one up for Mariette.Alicia Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14458700009032102949noreply@blogger.com