Top 10 ways to know you’ve watched too much Little House on the Prairie

10. When the kids are exasperating you, you burst out, “I declare,” in a huff. 9. Your six year old comes to you, clutching his stomach and says, “Mom, I don’t feel good. I think I’ve got the mountain fever.” 8. You have a sudden and bizarre urge to sew something…even though you don’t know […]

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Battoning Down the Hatches…or something like that.

Well we didn’t get the eight inches of snow they were predicting yesterday (it looks more like 3-4 inches to me) but it’s still flurrying a bit out there so we’ll see what happens.  The kids are enjoying their first ever snow day and right now are all piled up on the couch in their […]

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I’m married and dating a younger man!

Did you ever fear when you got married that you would miss dating?  That you might long for the excitement of going out with someone new and different – the butterflies, the joy of a shared moment, smiles exchanged, hands held? I will confess – I did worry about it.  It wasn’t a worry that […]

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In which I ramble on about nothing

It’s cold outside. Not brrrrrrrrrrrrr chilly. It’s freeze your face off cold. It’s single digits with wind chills below zero cold. My husband is checking out real estate in Florida and in the Bahamas. He typically starts this process every October and it tapers off around mid-March. It’s like clock work. I loathe cold weather. […]

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2009 – A “Wordy” Review

I got this idea from C-Jane’s blog. I’m not quite as spunky a writer as she is, but I liked looking through my 2009 posts and remembering the fun and crazy words that composed and marked the past year.   January:  – The Inauguration: Thoughts From a Conservative: This was one of my few ventures into politics […]

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Good Friends, Good Fun, Good Year

We ended the decade last night with our neighbors, eating, drinking and dancing.  Adults and children all joined in on the fun as we played the Wii game, Just Dance.  If you don’t have this game, I recommend you get it – we will be after playing last night. This has  been a good decade.  […]

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The One Where My Mom Claws Come Out

*update* I returned to the mall today to file a formal complaint and noticed that there was a phone number on the sign in front of the trampolines (where the same girl was working again today, I might add).  I called the number and spoke with the man who owns the trampolines.  He was very […]

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The One Where He Sings Dradle, Dradle, Dradle

This year, our church opened up the Christmas Eve services to anyone who wanted to join and help lead the service.  Since I am so involved with our music department, I decided to take Sloan and have him stand up front with me.  Much to his dismay, I might add. My sweet six year old […]

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Christmas Is

Christmas is the excitment on little faces at a sea of gifts filled with unknown treasure. Christmas is little boys grinning from ear to ear. Christmas is Santa Clause coming to town. Christmas is the thrill of a surprise.      Christmas is family. Christmas is being together, celebrating the birth of our Savior and […]

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It’s a Merry Christmas Day!

I hope and pray that you all had a blessed Christmas day.  Ours was nice.  I, unfortunately, was up all night with a violent case of the stomach flu.  Seriously – it was ugly.  I ended up just sleeping on the bathroom floor kind of ugly. But alas, Christmas morning came and the worst of […]

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