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Things I Don’t Understand
I must admit this is just a random compilation of things that have been confusing me lately. Or in some cases, just things that have been driving me nuts. So here we go, a few things that make no sense to me. Cake mixes and canned frosting make no sense to me. Now I like to bake, but I understand that isn’t true of everyone. However, making a cake is not complicated. The chocolate cake recipe I use simply requires you to dump everything in a bowl and mix it for two minutes. There are no unusual ingredients and no complicated directions. Why would you use a box mix if…
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Young’un by Herbert Best
Some books have the ability to transport you right back to where you were when you first read them. Young’un is one of those books for me. From the time I was 5 until I was 13, we lived in a house that was a couple of hundred years old. It had formerly been housing for the mill workers from the silk mills that used to operate in town. I loved that house. It was full of nooks and crannies and creaky floors and a strange hodgepodge of rooms. There was an enclosed front porch that had been added on at some point. We kept all our bikes on it…
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Currently Reading
I thought I would show you a picture of my hyacinth now that it is blooming. It is so pretty and fills the whole room with its scent. I love having a bit of spring in the house. We will just ignore the fact that we are supposed to get snow this weekend. The kids are annoyed that snow might come this weekend because they want a snow day from school, so Monday would be better, and I am annoyed that it might snow at all because I want spring. If it does snow (which I doubt, I think it will all just blow past us and all the hype…
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Ten Reasons Why Reading Is Important
Reading teaches empathy. It puts you right inside someone else’s thoughts and feelings. You feel what they feel and you understand them. Empathy, in turn, makes you a kinder person, someone others will want to associate with. Reading broadens your horizons. Real life can surround you with people who are similar to you. They live in similar circumstances, come from a similar background, and have similar viewpoints. Books open up whole other worlds and force you to realize that the world is full of people living different lives from yours and that those differences make life interesting. Reading improves grammar and spelling and the world needs more grammar police. If…
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Weekend Meanderings
We woke up this morning to a dusting of snow and my daughter couldn’t be happier. She promptly went outside to investigate the footprints in the snow, (probably just the neighbor’s cat) make snow angels, and create some complicated game that required paths in the snow and an involved back story. I love that she is still young enough to be made happy by an inch of snow. Of course, my son is also happy, because it is only an inch of snow so he doesn’t have to shovel. Last night we went to my parent’s house to celebrate my brother and sister-in-law’s tenth wedding anniversary. We don’t see a…
