Hello from La Petit Puppe’, the daycare for the discerning puppy owner! As you may remember, we have a new puppy. After three weeks in her new home, Tess has done her best to leave her mark on everything inside. Wow. I haven’t had a puppy since Callie was little in 1996. Over the years, [...]

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA. (Sorry. I don’t know what came over me.) SNORT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA. (Sorry. It’s just that…um… EASY? … what was I THINKING?) What’s really funny is that I started out writing a post about how this summer HAS been easy…-er. More easy. Easy-ish. Seriously, it HAS been different from past years, when having all three kids [...]

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With the kids home from school, I’ve been questioning my parenting even more than usual. It got me pondering, and I started to write something new. But then I remembered and reread this post from May of last year. And I decided it said most of what I was feeling AND offered me some encouragement. [...]

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Today’s Works for Me Wednesday post: How to remove burnt odors from a microwave. But first some parenting advice: When your tween child asks you how long to warm a Quaker oatmeal bar in the microwave, it would behoove you to be 100% focused on him when you answer. (Okay, I was just looking for [...]

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I’m feeling rather imperfect today. You might say, EXTRA imperfect. The run-up to Christmas this year seems especially hectic, and I’m kinda overwhelmed. To-do list in my calendar. Another on a legal pad in my room. Yet another started on a DIFFERENT legal pad in my briefcase. Overlapping and diverging just enough to make me [...]

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An unexamined tweet is not worth blogging. Yeah, I know today’s the Twitter Ho-Down. And I have definitely succeeded at being a Twitter Ho this week. In fact, in the past 48 hours, I enjoyed some really fun-but-maybe-a-bit-disturbing-sometimes conversations on the Twitter. And that’s the problem with today’s post: I’ve spent too much time playing [...]

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Sitting here on the couch, I’m surrounded by dogs and laundry. The dogs only cause problems when I trip over them. But the laundry…. The laundry is my nemesis. Hangers litter one sofa cushion. Baskets compete for the socks that I’m folding. After three weeks of feeling BLEH, I am unbelievably behind on washing clothes. [...]

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(Mostly) Wordless for Wednesday: A still life in Play-doh and dog hair For more Wordless Wednesday, visit 5 Minutes for Mom

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Inadequate. Not enough. That’s how I’ve been feeling lately. I don’t have enough… time                            brainpower self-discipline        selflessness courage                              confidence I’m not organized enough. I’m not loving enough. I’m not content enough. [...]

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Well, this post was a toss-up between something deep and philosophical… …And a laundry basket post. Hmmmm. Maybe I can do both. Learning: I just came to a realization about myself over the weekend. Laundry: This is much like the realization I came to a month or so ago about my laundry baskets. Learning: First [...]

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