I hope you can forgive the absence of an original post today. I just finished six uninterrupted hours of data entry. Which reminded me of exactly how much I despise data entry. This afternoon, it seems like a good time to bring back one of my favorite posts from this blog’s early days. NOTE: You [...]

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Bet MY Monday is worse than YOURS. Oink. Yup. We’re going to visit a doctor or two today. To find out once and for all if the illness all FOUR of us are experiencing is  … you know … The Illness That Must Not Be Named. This promises to be at least as fun as [...]

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Hey! All is well here with no Charlie around. (Stalkers… See: “Dogalicious and Stinkbert” for reasons not to come for a visit. Just ignore all the pics of them sleeping. And the posts about them hiding from thunder. Their ferocity knows no match.) Pause for seriousness: I am SO grateful for your prayers! Charlie’s absence [...]

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Last night Charlie flew to London. He got there safe. And those of us who remain at home are doing fine SO FAR. Wishing we could go too, and of course missing him. But before we know it, he’ll be back. And since taking a plane trip always involves a road trip, our adventure on [...]

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Flashback to 2003. The children are 6, 4, and 1. I’m trying to homeschool LC in kindergarten, and keep a preschooler and a toddler busy. I am slowly going insane. Writing is just a hobby; a blog (or any other publishing platform), a pipe dream. I won’t write with any consistency for another six years. [...]

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Today when I arrived at the kids’ school, my clock read 7:59. Ack! I think that’s the closest we’ve come to arriving late this whole year. Of course, only if you define “on time” as “while the carpool line still has cars in it.” The line at the drop-off area was getting perilously short when [...]

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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, sort, wash, dry, fold, hang, put away, gather, sort, etc. Sort of a [...]

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Shhh. They’re coming. I only have a few seconds before they find me. I know I begged Sunday night for a snow day Monday. I KNOW. So I really shouldn’t complain. I mean, LOOK at it. Gorgeous. But today’s TUESDAY. And the children are STILL HERE. They migrate from room to room, shedding clutter in [...]

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An open letter. Dear Local School District, Thank you for the kind note that you sent home with my daughter Hannah on Friday. From what you’ve written, I see that we have once again run afoul of your attendance policy. The printout you attached to the note made it clear that Hannah has missed school [...]

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Wow, on Saturday I had an unplanned “blog fast.” It happened when my sister and brother-in-law’s work shifts overlapped a little, and I agreed to watch my nephews for a few hours in the afternoon. I love my nephews, and my kids love their cousins. We always have a great time getting both families together [...]

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