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Ain’t No Party Like A Star Party
We went to a Star Party last Friday. I was excited to go to the Star Party, a free event sponsored by the local astronomer’s club, because I had never seen the stars with a telescope before. Members...
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5 Lies You Cannot Tell A Reading Baby
By now I’m sure you have heard about little Elizabeth Barrett, who was reading by 13 months. How do you parent a child like this? How do you let your husband know there are “C-O-O-K-I-E-S” in the...
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Prom Night In A ’75 Gremlin – Part 1
A survey by Visa, Inc. shows the average American parent spends over 1,000 dollars to gussy up their daughter for the prom. Interestingly, the lower the economic standing of the family, the more they...
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Prom Night In A ’75 Gremlin – Part 2
In Part 1 of this tale, I told you how I found out about the prom at age 11 when I happened upon a group of strangers excitedly taking photos of a gowned teenager. I discovered my mom had gone …...
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Here Come The Judge
Friday evening, during the middle school production of The King and I, a baby started crying with that weird foghorn/alien ‘Waaaaahrrrrrrrrrggggggggg’ babies around the planet have adopted when they...
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Three Day Weekend Blessings
In the United States we are celebrating Memorial Day today, a day we set aside to remember our fallen soldiers. We enjoy a three-day weekend (well, most of us do), and the weather here on the East...
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When You Hear The Final Bell…
Today is the last day of school. No more pencils No more books No more teacher’s Dirty looks! When my kids were in elementary school, there was an addition to the rhyme, When you hear the final bell...
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Happy Birthday Little Sister!
This post is about my little sister so it goes without saying I’m going to kick it off by talking about me. It’s what I do best! I was one of three sisters. Big sister was the pretty one, little …...
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The Cruise (Hanks?) Divorce
Husband and I have a long-standing disagreement. He says he knows what he’s talking about and I say he doesn’t. His habit of confusing Tom Cruise with Tom Hanks for example. “He’s such a nice guy!”...
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Light On The Romance, Heavy On The Comedy
I suspect I’m missing the gene that makes me ‘get’ romance novels and Hollywood movies. I first noticed I was a little different back in the early 90s when Bridges of Madison County was sending droves...
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Simplify This! The Simple Living Handbook
You can read Simple Living Handbook in an hour. Since you can, I’m sure author and blogger Lorilee Lippincott wouldn’t mind if you just stood in the book store and read it and then put it back on the...
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Happy Father’s Day! That’ll be $126.34, Nausea And A Headache, An Engagement,...
On Father’s Day, I took Husband to a local diner famous for serving Tom Hanks breakfast one morning several years ago. We sat at the table Tom sat! Each of us felt a glow in the seat of our pants …...
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Baby Buys Car- Spoils Things For Sibling
When I first heard this story I thought,wow, this toddler is quite the go-getter. She didn’t let her inability to articulate her desire for a 1962 Austin Healey Sprite stop her from acquiring one....
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