(Conversation this morning between 8 yr old #2 and me.) Spoken by the boy in tones of shock: “Mommy, WHY are you dressed already?” Me, indignantly:  “Well, it is 9:30!” “Yeah, but you never get dressed till after breakfast!” “Maybe I’m turning over a new leaf?” I suggested. “Oh, like if you decided to go...
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Playing Love Thursday with Chookooloonks.  I posted my entry here: Letter to my 4 year old
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ” –Charles Dickens (Found here –The Most Important Money Tip_)
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Never has a month lasted so long.  Well, excepting the months I’ve spent waiting for my children to arrive- which, come to think of it, has comprised a sizeable portion of my adult life.  So, maybe a rephrase is in order:  this month has really dragged.  (There, that’s better.)  This morning at breakfast we...
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For Opinion Saturday I asked people to describe some item in their home that they found in an odd location.  I chuckled through all your entries.  But when I got to Nicki (Living In My Mind)’s story of finding tampons in the fridge, I knew I had my winner.  Nicki, you’re my Very Interesting Person...
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Playing with Shannon at Rocks In My Dryer again this week.  My tip has to do with soy milk.  I have several milk-allergic children.  For awhile we were going through soy milk like crazy, even though we didn’t serve it every meal.  After nearly going broke (that stuff is expensive!) I did an internet search and found this: SoyaJoy...
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Today I ran all over town (driver’s ed, confirmation, library) – with time to kill during the activities!–and somehow managed to resist Walmart, Taco Bell, Dairy Queen, McDonald’s, and various other establishments that tried to lure me with their siren call  neon signs.  Barely. Ice cream was calling me really loudly…. Due to my empty gas tank,...
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Could someone possibly explain to me why the #1 search parameter for my blog, day after day, all this week has been the letter ‘t’?  Does this letter have some meaning I am not familiar with?  After all, I am not the only one who freely uses the letter t.  Why would this particular search result...
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(Updated, below)  Today was pottery day at our house. Mud pottery to be exact. After reading a section from a book about pottery making in Ethiopia, as well as this handy dandy Boy Scout guide: Scoutcraft – Campfire Pottery, we were ready to begin. We have lots of clay soil on our property. I...
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This evening I had a couple minutes of down time, waiting for my kids to get out of youth group.  I grabbed my checkbook, thinking I’d enter recent checks into the register. Short task–two in the past week.  Curious, I counted.  I’ve written six checks so far in September.  Six checks in 17 days. ...
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