We went to the garden store Saturday to get some herbs. Boy, do I have a yearning to have a garden of my own now! So does OLC, apparently: after helping her dad plant some seeds in little pots, she twice got into the dirt and seeds and made a mess all [...]
That is what I told my husband the other day, when it was nearly 90 degrees indoors. It is not quite so bad today.
The children are both napping right now after a busy day of running around; quite a blessing because I am all tired out too.
TLG is starting to try to [...]
Several times in the last two days, I’ve come across OLC turning the pages of a book and “reading aloud” by telling herself a story that she makes up as she goes. There are two recurring characters, Pippi and Peter. (I suppose Pippi comes from Pippi Longstocking, and Peter is the name of [...]
We had a church picnic yesterday, and OLC had a ball eating under the trees: wander in, mooch some hamburger or watermelon, wander off again. The problem is that she does the same thing indoors at home, and I keep finding dried-up little morsels in odd places.
….but when i tried out Bing and searched for “foofy”, my blog came up on the second page of results, and his didn’t even make the top fifteen pages. (He did have the very first result for “foofiness”, though.)
In case you are wondering, around here “foofy” is not a variant of “frou-frou”. [...]
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Barbara at Mommy Life has a very good post: As Obama deconstructs, what can we do? 10 ideas. I can’t think of anything to add to the list except, perhaps, to consider the possibility of leaving. While packing up and moving to another country is almost unthinkable to me, I know [...]
Through Get Rich Slowly, I found this “personal financial ’stress test’”. Interesting to run the numbers and see that we’re doing sort of ok. Until the car dies, anyway.
I wrote a while back about how the county was putting $900,000+ worth of solar panels on a county building. County Commissioner Jeff Johnson (the black sheep fiscal conservative on the board) has bestowed a Golden Fire Hydrant Award on this project, and notes that it won’t pay for itself in energy cost savings [...]
Pro-life activist Christina at RealChoice on the Tiller murder (she’s been tracking abortion deaths for many years; at least one of Tiller’s patients died needlessly from a “safe” quasi-legal abortion):
To those who don’t get it, imagine that your job is to “turn” enemy spies, to get them to become double agents who give you vital [...]