My youngest composed this song herself. It deals mainly with her love for horses and her disdain for the cows which her parents have chosen to raise instead.  Don’t miss the grand finale. Guitar girl from Mary Ostyn on Vimeo.
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After listening to several quick and not-terribly-logical completely illogical topic changes in the conversation at lunch, my 15 year old son shook his head, laughed, and said, “It sounds like the train of thought just crashed with the helicopter of confusion.”
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This afternoon my 5 and 7 year old daughters were playing, when my 5 year old suggested a new game. “Hey, do you want to play with papa beads?
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On our recent vacation my 18 year old son had fun taking pictures with his new phone.  He took the photo on the left when the dog escaped from her kennel in our van after someone-who-shall-remain-nameless left the kennel unlatched.  The dog used her freedom to scale Mount Luggage behind the back seat (we...
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This evening, my 18 year old son, my hubby and I are going to Junior Senior Banquet, the genteel home-school version of prom. Fancy clothes, fancy dinner, pictures, talent show, folk dancing. My son and I have been looking forward to it for weeks.   My hubby, not so much. This afternoon my hubby...
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CLICK HERE to enter the giveaway for a $100 gift card from OXICLEAN ———— This evening my 5 year old came to tell me about a picture she had drawn.  Her explanation was so funny that I had to write the story down. ———— Jack was little and then he turned big. He was...
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Today my son was reading a biography about Harry Truman, and found out that Harry Truman was born in Missouri just like me. Very earnestly he asked, “Did you know him, Mom?” The only thing worse than my son asking me if I knew a president from the late 40′s was realizing that the...
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The Blind Side For Valentine’s Day John took me to see The Blind Side. I count it as Sandra Bullock’s best performance ever, bar none. We own both Lake House and While You Were Sleeping and have seen them often enough that I can quote fair portions of both movies. I love me some...
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When little girls ask mom to come play Barbies with them, and mom discovers that most of the shoes have no matches, a shoe hunt becomes necessary.  Thankfully (shoes being essential to Barbie happiness) we were able to find a good assortment.   Made for a grand shoe store. Hairstyling at the Owlhaven Hair Salon...
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One day last week when I had just two kids at home, I stopped with them at Panda Express for dinner.  Our five year old, not known for her appetite, declared that she was having orange chicken and nothing else. I scanned the menu and saw that a single serving of orange chicken was...
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