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Quote for Today

Posted on 02/18/2014 by chick

Quote by Louis L’Amour— The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

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Laundry Day

Posted on 02/17/2014 by chick

My husband walked into the mud room as I was putting towels into the washing machine. He said, “Oh, laundry day?” Where has he been living for the last 4.5 years that he doesn’t know that every day is laundry … Continue reading →

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Mornings

Posted on 02/12/2014 by chick

The children usually get up before I do. I can hear them moving around, using the bathroom (they are both capable of managing that on their own now!), and talking. Sometimes they discuss strategy before they invade my bedroom to … Continue reading →

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Wishes Comes True

Posted on 02/10/2014 by chick

Every day Marshall chants, “I wish for more snow. I wish for more snow. I wish….” And what can I say but that it seems to be working? There’s a lot of snow on the ground (courtesy of three recent … Continue reading →

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Finishing Up 2013: Part II

Posted on 01/24/2014 by chick

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, A (Kindle version) This is a well-written dystopian story about a boy named Matt who grows up on the estate of a drug lord in the fictional land of Opium, a country … Continue reading →

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Weekend Woe

Posted on 01/23/2014 by chick

Last weekend was the weekend from Hell. Friday night around 11:00, I began experiencing stomach and back pain. Then came the vomiting. All night long, I retched periodically and was wretched constantly. There was no way to position my body … Continue reading →

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Story Time

Posted on 01/21/2014 by chick

I was working on a Shutterfly album the other evening when Livia came over and said she wanted to tell me a story. She asked me to type it into the computer, so I opened up a new blog post … Continue reading →

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Everyone’s a Critic

Posted on 01/16/2014 by chick

Livia has been learning the ABC song from Marshall. She sings, “A, B, C, D, E, F, G—Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Z, Now I know, next time sing with me!” (or something like that). I thought … Continue reading →

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Finishing up 2013: Part I

Posted on 01/15/2014 by chick

100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson, A- I enjoyed this slightly unusual book about a boy who, in the farmhouse where he’s staying with family, discovers cupboards that connect to other worlds. Parts of the premise were difficult to believe, and … Continue reading →

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Riddle

Posted on 01/14/2014 by chick

Marshall told me a riddle the other morning. He doesn’t know the standard wording for a riddle yet, so I’m paraphrasing here, but basically it went like this: What do you get when you cross a crocodile and a rooster? … Continue reading →

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