Happy Day After Valentine’s Day. I hope you enjoyed your celebration of the holiday. Unless you don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, in which case I encourage you to at least take advantage of all the half-price candy sales today. (My grocery store was OUT of candy hearts this morning. I was peeved.) We celebrated here with [...]

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I thought I was pretty “with it.” After all, I’m a blogger – that’s current. I’m a social media manager – that’s still cutting-edge. I’m on Pinterest and Google+ and LinkedIn and Twitter. I watch YouTube videos. Unfortunately, my kids have led me to understand that I don’t watch ENOUGH YouTube videos. Of course, in [...]

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I’m eating M&Ms. Dark chocolate. I don’t know why, but somehow telling you what’s going on this instant helps me get in a writing groove. So let’s see, what else is happening? I’m getting a cold sore-like thingy on my tongue from sucking on the aforementioned M&Ms. Does this stop me from eating them? No, [...]

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See Scruff. Scruff and Steph are friends. Scruff loves Steph.   See Steph. Look, Scruff! There is Steph! See Scruff see Steph. See Scruff jump on Steph. See Steph kick Scruff (more like a foot shove, really).   Scruff is not happy. Scruff wants to sit on Steph’s lap. Scruff wants to sleep in bed [...]

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LC, Hannah and I were driving home from their Wednesday night middle school worship time, when we started talking about childbirth. (Doesn’t every family talk about that in the car?) “Mom, did you have any of us the regular way?” asked Hannah. Me: No, you were all C-sections. LC: You tried to get ME out [...]

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I sit at the kitchen table with my laptop, listening to the incessant drumming of the dryer, paired with the sloshing of the washer. LC told me that Tess the Puppy scared herself on his drum kit this morning. Her wagging tail apparently hit the bass drum, making her jump and whirl around. I’ve got [...]

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I’m joining Joyce’s Wednesday Hodgepodge over at From This Side of the Pond. Random is just what I needed today. If you’re at a loss for ideas, feel free to visit Joyce and join the party!   1. What do you do at the first sign of a cold? Will you get a flu shot [...]

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My blog’s stats counter broke about a month ago. So for a few weeks, I had no way of knowing who was visiting my blog or why. Not knowing if anyone had read my infrequent posts made me feel all empty inside. (Okay, I know I could’ve done the work to find another stats plugin, [...]

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