Our 19 year old daughter headed off to start her second year of college yesterday. She has a cute on-campus apartment with 3 good friends. A car of her own. Interesting classes this fall. She’s close enough that she plans to come home on the weekends. It is an ideal situation for her. And...
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This week we have devoted a few hours to freezing some of our abundant corn crop. It’s a fairly simple project, but after three people in two days asked me how we do this, I thought it might be worth offering a brief tutorial here. Start by husking the corn and removing all the...
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Gracyn (10) received a heart transplant on April 15, 2009 and joined Kari in singing Healer, a life-changing song during Gracyn’s waiting period for a heart. Read more of Gracyn’s story at www.shinevision.com.
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7:30 AM- 4 year old crawls into my bed. I try not to wake up, because if I wake up, I’ll notice how bad my throat hurts and have to go do something about it. And I do NOT want to get up. 7:45 AM — 11 year old boys are thundering around like...
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1- The number of boxes of Kleenex I’ve used in the last 2 days (a cold? allergies? I dunno, but it is making me cranky.) 2- The number of hours I spent printing and matting pictures and filling out entry forms for kids’ fair entries today. 3- The number of eggs we got from...
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Apparently I got the griping out of my system the other day, because I’m feeling more cheerful about the start of school. I’ve organized my existing books, and ordered more, including handwriting and a 3rd copy of Saxon 7/6 math — the latter on paperbackswap.com– hooray! Last night I got a new chore chart...
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Guess what? Family Feasts for $75 a Week is now IN STOCK! —- Often people resist small money-saving changes exactly because they seem so small. The tiny savings don’t seem to outbalance the inconvenience of doing without an item, or switching to a different one. Take paper towels, for example. If instead of using...
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Just got home from seeing Julie and Julia for the second time, this time with my daughter Erika. It is a hilarious, warm-hearted, yummy movie. For those of you wondering if it was family friendly, eh. It earned its PG-13 rating, due to language and innuendo. But that warning aside, I totally enjoyed it....
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