Here are some of my posts that you ‘liked’ on facebook in 2011 (THANKS so much!!) with a few bonus ones from 2010 thrown in there too. I thought it might be fun for anyone new here to have an easy way to get a sampling of what you’re likely to see here. Mothering:...
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After eight hours yesterday spent running our 9 year old to two different doctors to get several different tests done— all is well and she’s feeling better!!—I got home feeling more than a little exhausted. I was so glad to be home. And yet, almost the first thing I saw when I walked into...
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Over Christmas my sister-in-law confessed to my 16 year old daughter that she’d never learned how to knit or crochet. My daughter reported this to me later with some surprise. I laughed and reassured her that this particular aunt, having gotten through law school, could certainly learn any skill she put her mind to....
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Old Orchard juice winners: #2-Jennie, #16-Susan, #38-Tiffany.  Email me your addresses, gals! ~~~~~ Thanks to a bout with the flu this weekend, I’m feeling decidedly un-peppy this morning.  So far, only three of us have had it, and I am fully expecting more to fall sick any moment. But most of us are attacking...
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Folks wonder sometimes how it is possible to fund college AND retirement when you’re paying the bills for a houseful of kids on a modest income.  I’m not going to claim we have it all figured out, but I thought I’d share some of the decisions we’ve made and how we are handling things...
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In a weekend full of family and celebration, the happiest moments were right in our own living room, surrounded by our kids. Christmas Eve morning I was awake at 6:30, puttering around drinking coffee, and setting out coffee and cocoa fixings for our kids. They would soon be waking up and wandering into the...
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Christmas was truly, exceedingly lovely. Happy kids, happy parents, much goodness. We haven’t had such a peaceful and delightful Christmas in years.  I am hoping to get some photos edited to share with you later this week. But for now I thought I’d share a few ideas for the new year. First of all,...
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I’m sitting at the dining room table at exactly midnight with a bowl of Raisin Bran at my elbow, a computer keyboard under my fingertips, and Christmas lights twinkling from across the room at me.  There’s something so utterly serene about sitting alone in a room at midnight that when it happens I often...
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I am NOT a morning person, but the day doesn’t tend to wait for me to wake up.  Of course it would also help if I didn’t stay up so late every night.  Thus the need for multiple cups of coffee most mornings. (The mug below gave me a chuckle.) Below is probably about...
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Yesterday was full of regret for me, moments of handling rudeness with sharp words instead of patience, of losing my cool so entirely over repetitive but minor disobedience that even after apologizing I went to bed just wanting to push the ‘forget’ button. I woke still heavy with frustration, both with myself and the...
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