Goldfish

Today's word of the day...

solecism / SOL-uh-siz-uhm/, noun:
1. A breach of good manners or etiquette.
2. A nonstandard or ungrammatical usage.
3. Any error, impropriety, or inconsistency.

Used in a sentence:
If eating on the couch is committing a major solecism in the home, then I am the very one who encouraged it.

Strut Your Stuff

Today's word of the day...


Galumph /guh LUMPH/, intransitive verb: 
to move in a clumsy manner or with a heavy tread
Anomaly /uh NOM uh lee/, noun:
a deviation from the common rule, type, arangement, or form.
someone or something anomalous: with his quiet nature, he was an anomaly in his exuberant family.
an odd, peculiar, or stranage condition, situation, quality, etc.

Both used in a sentence: 
Galumphing around the house in women's high heels is no easy feat for a man child, but I'm positively assured that one afternoon's anomaly is only a phase.

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When he has outgrown Santa and elves, incentives for good behavior will never end in my household. This one's going into the blackmail photo file.

How to Kick off a Vacation with a Bang

Today's word of the day...
anoesis /an-oh-NEE-sus/, noun:
a state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content.

Used in a sentence:
In a frenzied rush to unbuckle my seatbelt and cup my hand under the chin of my barfing child, I was filled with complete and utter anoesis.  Only later, did I my brain register with reason, "Did I really think my hand could catch all that vomit?"

"Umm... Boy? Do you think you could pull over sometime soon?"

What a perfect way to begin a family vacation.

This Mom Got Skills

Today's vocabulary lesson:

jujitsu \joo-JIT-soo\, noun:
1. The ability to accomplish a task with no apparent effort or resistance.
2. Method developed in Japan of defending oneself without the use of weapons by using the strength and weight of an adversary to disable him.

Used in a sentence:
To escape the constant bombardment of toy cars being rammed at my feet, my shrewd method of jujitsu only requires two things: an iPod Touch and the toy car offender's favorite parent.

Gotta Roll With the Punches

Today's vocabulary lesson...

zugzwang \TSOOK-tsvahng\ noun: 
A situation in which a player is limited to moves that have a damaging effect.

Used in a sentence: 
No matter where she is crawling (the mere fact that she just exists), the baby is perpetually in prime zugzwang while in the presence of her toddler brother.

In her brother's defense, he was trying real hard to share his train tracks. He pushed those suckers a little too energetically into her face. Now's the time to toughen up more, Indy girl.