life
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A Few Burning Questions About Life
If I plan meals for the week and make a grocery list why do I then always leave the list on the coffee table when I go to the grocery store? Why is the child who can’t hear you ask for the five hundredth time for chores to be done perfectly able to hear you whisper the question “Should we order pizza?” from three rooms away? Why do my children need to talk to me as soon as I make a phone call? They are never so eager for conversation at other times. Why did no one tell me that it was possible for a night owl to give birth…
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Little Things #5
Things look a little different around here, don’t they? It’s so pretty now. I was never really happy with how my blog looked, but I thought I should see if I was going to stick with it before I got too involved in changing it. Over the weekend I bought a template for next to nothing on Etsy and installed it. It was surprisingly fun figuring everything out. I think everything works fine now, but if you find any problems please let me know. This week has been a little slow, full of boring but necessary things like car repairs and more car repairs. I was in an accident about…
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A Walk in the Woods
My kids had the day off from school earlier this week so I took them out to lunch and for a walk in the woods. Lunch wasn’t anything fancy, just fast food burgers at Wendy’s, but that is what they wanted. The walk in the woods, however, was definitely something special. We went to a state park near us. We have been there before to swim in the pond, but we didn’t realize that there are all kinds of trails throughout the acres and acres of land surrounding the pond. We crossed a little bridge and meandered up a hill. My son was almost out of sight ahead of us.…
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Tips for a Happy Marriage
Today is our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. I thought about putting up a picture from our wedding but my husband is a private person and wouldn’t want that so you will just have to imagine it. If you picture me with a perm and wearing a gown with a big bow in the back you will be right on target. In my defense, everyone had perms in 1990 and all wedding gowns had huge bows. So, how have we stayed married for twenty-five years, you ask? (Let’s just pretend you want to know because I want to talk about it. That is how this blogging thing works.) So here are my…
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What I Want For My Daughter
My daughter made a nest in the middle of the living room. It consists of lots of pillows, tons of blankets, and a few big pieces of foam my husband brought home from work for her. (He knew she would find something to do with them.) She sits in the middle of it all with her stuffed animals and her books and her cat and plays. She plays because she is ten. It makes me happy. The nest has been there for days and I think she hopes to leave it for the whole winter and I might never get my living room back again, but it makes me…
