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1 January 2011 By Leave a Comment

I think I usually post some fantastic new years post, but it doesn’t even feel like a new year this year. In fact, I usually wish a happy and wondrous new year with birthday wishes. I mean, that’s when your (collective noun) new year starts, right?

I can’t think of a single thing that really sticks out in the 2010. No death, no destruction, no major financial crisis, no major hospitalizations. Thank god. We should all have a year off. I guess last year was mine. Makes me wonder what is going to show it’s face on the horizon of 2011.

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Wow, a whole month

12 October 2010 By Leave a Comment

I kind of took myself off-line for a while there. Did I get more accomplished? Maybe. Did I spend more time with my kids? Definitely.

The internet is a wonderful thing. This week alone we’ve looked up naked mole rats, Harry Potter costuming, replaced a broken toy, and a handful of other things. We also got a new-to-us kids-sized game table from our local FreeCycle which the kids are loving.

There is something to be said for hanging out with your kids though, even if it’s just watching a movie or eating dinner or some other daily drudge type thing.

So, it probably won’t be another month until you hear from me again, but it wouldn’t surprise me either. I’m having gutters installed today. I’m talking to Dad about replacing the drywall in the front room, laying some new carpet and some other misc. household improvement items. I want to put up some real shelves too – get rid of the bookcase shelves. I just told Michael, if I can’t do the entire room at once, I can do a small part, right? Hey, a million pennies is 100,000 dollars, right? You gotta collect those one at a time.

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On death and dying…

16 July 2010 By Leave a Comment

Isn’t that a book? Regardless… I know I talk a lot about death. The whole concept freaks me out as much as I am at home with it. I know it’s inevitable. I know as soon as we are born we are living on borrowed time. We don’t win this great race, not really. Our reward at the end is death. [Read more...]

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So your kid has a friend with a tattoo…

25 June 2010 By 6 Comments

I picked up the July issue of Family Circle magazine today because an article on the front page caught my eye. I’m flipping through and this huge full page ad type page for their new(ish?) parenting site, momster.com, is there. On it is a poll, “Your son or daughter brings home a new friend—with dyed hair, multiple piercings and what looks like a real tattoo. You:” and some options, none of which I really would pick. So I get online, make a log in and pipe up because hey, that’s what I do. [Read more...]

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Are you a member of the One Step tribe?

2 June 2010 By Leave a Comment

I had my husband draw this for me sometime last year… the year before? I can’t remember. Anyway, I had him draw it because I was having trouble drawing a foot to look the right way and hey, he draws every day. More than that, I wanted it because for probably half my life now I’ve had people tell me how strong I am, how they don’t know if they could do “it” (whatever “it” it happens to be at the time) if “it” were happening to them, you know, you’ve heard it before. [Read more...]

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