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Karen Rinehart - who has written 195 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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The Office Party

Posted on 05 January 2009

Every year my husband’s company graciously treats their hard working employees and significant others to a lovely dinner party.  I live for this night 364 days out of the year. Translated:  Not only does someone else cook my dinner, clean…

Children: Then And Now

Posted on 02 December 2008

At The Store Then: “Stay by my side. Stay where you can see me!  Don’t you dare leave this aisle!  Hold my hand in this store! Get out from under that clothes rack — that is NOT funny! You scared…

Copycats!

Posted on 28 November 2008

I want a little credit here folks!  But more importantly, I want royalties! Or at least an acknowledgement they copied my satarical brilliance. And a job on SNL.

November 5th, 2003, my column, Another Look At Bargain Airfares, hit the press.…

It’s The Day

Posted on 20 November 2008

It’s the day you spend one hour vacuuming the house and three hours trying to dislodge a pink Barbie comb out of the vacuum cleaner engine.

It’s the day you got a sitter for the baby, switched preschool carpool days, set…

Bus Stop Mommies Vehicle

Posted on 12 November 2008

Ford already got it right when they made moveable gas and brake pedals.  No more hugging the steering wheel to my chest in order to comfortably reach the pedals on my no heel-flip flop days. In 2010, we’ll have the…

Movie Review: High School Musical 3, Senior Year

Posted on 25 October 2008

If the Beatle-esque squeals of the little girls behind me are any indication, High School Musical 3, Senior Year, is definitely a charmer.  Not that the first two HSM productions weren’t.  But take every positive element from the first two movies…

12 Days of Driving

Posted on 23 October 2008

In honor of my daughter taking her driver’s license test tomorrow, I’ve written a song.  Sing to the tune of, The Twelve Days of Christmas:

On the first day of driving my daughter gave to me, an insurance bill the size…

Why are you Wearing a Dress?

Posted on 22 September 2008

 Why was I surprised at their reaction? I mean, this is the same mother who for years walked them to the corner bus stop in her flannel reindeer pj’s, garden clogs and their grandfather’s over coat.  And that was a…

The Traveling Husband Curse

Posted on 13 September 2008

Can garage door guys work in the pouring rain?  Because naturally, after months of drought, it’s raining on the only day Allen said he could be here.  I called him last week. 

“Uh oh, where’d he go this time?”

“Actually, he hasn’t…

Fire Me, Please!

Posted on 26 August 2008

Not too long ago yet another study was conducted on what a housewife/mother would earn if she actually received an annual salary.  Yet again, they (whoever “They” are) grossly underestimated our net worth.

And the worse part?  We don’t get the…

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