It was a strange week. Last Sunday night, after we got about six inches of snow, the school district cancelled school for Monday. Yay! Snow! So on Monday, Charlie and I took the kids to the field down the road. There they sledded and made snow angels and tromped around. By that time the snow [...]

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I know not everyone has an iPhone. (Why IS that? Catch up with pop culture, already!) But today I thought I’d share some of my favorite iPhone apps. These are apps that I use on a daily basis, often many times in one day. I hope they’re helpful to you… Twitter – Dear Twitter, I [...]

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What I want to be doing right now is baking cookies, not writing. My creative muse appears to be hanging out in the pantry with the oatmeal and chocolate chips. But I’ve told her to wait so I can catch you up on the past week and a half. After all, it’s been too long [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving from the Land of the Rednecks! Hope you enjoy our annual tradition! Okay, not really. We ALWAYS make the kids take off their trucker hats when I bring in the KFC. And I try to finish my cigarette in the kitchen. *** Have a great day!

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There’s a science experiment that Charlie and I like to conduct every year around this time. We call it, “Study in Jack-o-Lantern Mold Formation and Decomposition.” Yesterday we concluded our study, coming to the conclusion that jack-o-lanterns do, in fact, grow mold. We also discovered that the addition of rain to the experiment yields an [...]

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Originally posted March 19, 2009 Reposted today because … I’m behind on laundry… Why, hello. Just checking in. What have I been up to? Oh, nothing much… Just a bit of laundry. Five or ten or 75 loads, give or take a few. I’ve spent my last few days on a suds-powered hamster wheel: gather, [...]

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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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