L4’s Request

It was earlier in the fall, actually.  She was hanging out with me while I got ready to go out, possibly for work.  I was actually paying a little more attention to my appearance by putting jewelry on myself.  As she watched me put my favorite earrings in she said, “Mama, I want holes in [...]

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Sorry!

The title has many meanings. . .

Sorry I haven’t been posting so much.  My life has been a bit helter-skelter of late, which leads to. . .
I’m sorry about the death of my maternal grandmother last week.  Not for her, because she is no longer suffering, but for my grandfather, who now is without the [...]

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Instead of Blogging

I’ve been knitting, sewing, instigating others to do the same, or just being with my family.  Holiday gift making is well under way, and life just happens.  Tomorrow I’ll get to see my baby brother for the first time in almost 3 years.  Maybe I’ll even get a picture of us together to post.  Meanwhile, [...]

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Freezing Buns Update 1

Our heat is on, set at the levels I laid out here.  However, the fireplace insert has changed the dynamics of things.  The blower (that which blows the heat into the room from the insert) was installed yesterday after having been on back order.  Up until this point we experienced lovely radiant heat from the [...]

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Bulk Bag Winner!

Tracey, you’re the next winner on A Crunchy Life!  Congrats to you!  Please leave a comment and let me know what color drawstring you’d like for your bulk food bag.  Thanks for voting and leaving a comment!  And thank you to the rest of you for voting on Tuesday and for sharing your voting stories.  [...]

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Pa Ingalls I Am Not

On Tuesday we went from this:

To this:

And because of that, I’m now doing this:

And I’m terrible at it!  I can’t aim for the life of me, and I tend to close my eyes right before I strike (probably why the former is the case).  The log I was attempted to split this afternoon is [...]

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Exhausted, But Thrilled

Well over 300 electoral votes.  Amazing, wonderful, news.  We are full of hope for the future.  Congratulations to our President-Elect, Barack Obama!

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I Voted Today!

And regardless of your political affiliation, I hope you do too! For me, raising my children with an awareness of the awesome duty and importance of voting is so important.  Like my mother before me, I take my children to the polls with me and into the voting booth.

Today they helped pull the handle back [...]

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