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The One Where I Tell You What I Really Did in December

That sounds all dark and mysterious, doesn’t it?  It’s like I’m going to tell you that we didn’t really go to Disney World.  Rest assured, we really did spend a week in December doing this… What I couldn’t really share until now, however, is what we did for the rest of December.  (Not because I [...]

The One Where Molly Thinks Eric is Far Too Strict

Molly has a few friends who have play make up sets.  She covets those things.  I see her stare longingly at that type of thing in the store before she turns to me and says, “Daddy wouldn’t like me having that.” “Yes, I know,” as we move on. I had been aware for quite some [...]

10 Highlights From Camping (aka Turn Off the Computer and Explore)

This past weekend, I packed up my computer, as well as a van full of things, and set off for two days of camping.  Now, I do realize that some people would consider what we did to not be camping, since we stayed in a cabin.  However, on Friday night when we were freezing and [...]

7 Quick Takes: October 14, 2011 (Vol. 100)

~ 1 ~ Really?  This is volume 100? That’s like having done seven quick takes every week for two years, although I know that I’ve missed some weeks, so I have obviously done it for more than two years. Crazy! Here’s to two more years of seven quick takes! ~ 2 ~   At least [...]

A Slithering Visitor in Our Porch

Yesterday, as Molly was getting ready to go to the backyard, she stopped at the door to our screened in porch. “Uh….Mom.” “Yes?” I answered, while doing dishes. “What’s that slithering thing on the porch?” Let me tell you that while my next step was to casually say, “I’ll be there in a second,” as [...]

7 Quick Takes: October 7, 2011 (Vol. 99)

~ 1 ~ As I already mentioned, Molly had a birthday this week! How did it happen that I’m now the mother of kids ages 7 – 12? Molly decided to forgo receiving an actual gift from us, and instead opted for going out for a manicure (it was a first for both of us!) [...]

7 Quick Takes: September 29, 2011 (Vol. 98)

~ 1 ~ After several years of a closed photography business, I actually did a session (well, a two-in-one session) this past weekend.  While it was weird to be doing it again, it was for a very special reason.  I got to take senior pictures of one of my nieces and one of my nephews.  [...]

Best Dinner Ever

One particularly busy night last month, I proclaimed with an exhausted sigh, “We should just have popcorn and ice cream for dinner.”  It should come as no shock that the children thought this sounded like a wildly amazing idea.  My next statement didn’t come across as exciting, however. “I was joking.  We don’t even have [...]

For Judy

I began to write this post, and, in fact, wrote several paragraphs.  They were sad paragraphs.  A genuine, but truly heart wrenching, sharing about my dear friends (a married couple) who have now had to say goodbye to both of their mothers (both in their very early sixties) in the past two months, the most [...]

7 Quick Takes: September 23, 2011 (Vol. 97)

~ 1 ~ We went apple picking this week.  We ended up taking home around 13 pounds of apples.  When you consider that our only real goal is to eat the apples, that’s probably a lot of apples to have.  I think that I might make an apple crisp this weekend, but other than that [...]

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