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  • Our Pet Life

    If you came to our house, you might be excused for thinking we don’t have a pet. And until a month or so ago, we didn’t. But then, Abby’s science class finished raising their mealworms into grain beetles. They all …

  • Who I Am to Become

    Okay, I was going to write about this article in my latest Reader’s Digest that I’ve been avoiding, mostly because it didn’t sound interesting, and it certainly wasn’t applicable to me. It was the cover article on ho…

  • Fashion Setters

    Lots of sniffly noses here, and I’m feeling somewhat miserable myself. Poor Andy has had an awful nose for about five days, so that he begins wailing and running as soon as he sees me coming with a Kleenex now. …

  • Lots o' Little Cars

    A first time appearance at a Pinewood Derby is sort of like the first Scrapbooking night, where you show up with a few pictures. And then as you gaze at binder after binder of gorgeous photos with journaling and ribbo…

  • Steel Traps

    Can you believe this? Three in a week's time! So, during the Christmas shopping, after shopping at Wal-Mart one crazy, insane day, Andy and I spent quite a while parading back and forth in the parking lot looking …

  • How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been a…

  • Culture, Cars, Coaching, and Chicken

    Well, we had a restful, relaxing three day weekend (which as you probably already know are not my favorite kind of weekends). Thankfully, I had this book to gorge myself on. I was going to write yesterday that I was…

  • Sit-Down Versus Fast Food

    I come from a family that believes in food. Maybe it’s because we need to maintain our large frame, muscular builds. Ha! Or maybe it’s because my mom’s mom was from Mississippi. Visits to her home always involve…

  • The Joy of Parenting

    My dental hygienist told me about this book during a large portion of my last visit. And if there is one person everyone listens to, it has to be one’s dental hygienist because pretty much all you can say is “Uh-hh! …

  • Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!

    I love, love, love the whole season of Advent—setting out the manger scene (with Baby Jesus carefully hidden away); putting up Christmas lights on the bushes, the mantle, the staircase; eating in the dining room wit…

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