10yo Megan and I were out on a trip to do errands and get birthday ice cream and while we were in Home Depot looking at light fixtures on clearance, she started thinking out loud.
“You know how stores will sometimes have great sales, like spend $100 and get a free $100 gift card? Even [...]
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I hope I didn’t step on too many toes by refusing to get worked up over Subway’s faux pas, but here’s something that I do think we all should get more outspoken about: the pornographic ads and commercials that surround us nearly everywhere we go.
I don’t think I’ve done my duty in this area, but [...]
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Posted by: Lydia (Liddybug)
We have 2 dogs, 1 cat, 2 rabbits, and 1 gerbil.
One of our dogs is a Yorkshire terrier named Precious (the one in the picture). She is ridding on Deanna’s rocking horse. I put the ‘Pony on top’ in her hair, we took about 15 pictures of her before we got [...]
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Posted By: Lydia (Liddybug)
Rachael and Perry (little Perry) usually take naps around 2:00pm. Well today Perry didn’t lay down in his bed for a nap, he just decided that he didn’t need to.
He was nice and quiet so no one cared that he was up. I didn’t mention anything because I knew what would happen. I knew that he would just fall [...]
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Today after mom killed it, we did an autopsy on the snake that ate our barn swallows.
First, you see the little kids staring in morbid fascination as Lydia, and Megan cut the vile beast open with my knife, and below that you see the adult and baby barn swallows that we found in his stomach.
We [...]
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Texas Rat Snakes are nonvenomous but very aggressive. At nearly 4 feet long, this guy was big enough to do real damage to little feet and legs, yet just small enough to find several convenient ways into our unfinished house in search of fragrant gerbils, so we decided to knock him off the side of [...]
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We have had a swallows’ nest in the gable over our back door. They raise used to raise a couple of broods of young every year and do did a beautiful job at keeping the mosquitoes under control. They even killed off the wasps that tried to establish a colony there. See [...]
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Posted by: Deanna
Take a good look at this picture, what do you see?
I see, to quote Rudyard Kipling, a “man cub” , with big brown eyes, and long eyelashes like his Dad, an adorable buzz cut, a precious button nose complete with complementary dried boogers, and enormously fat cheeks. Overall it’s a face no person [...]
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I really want to get back to participating in Works For Me Wednesday, but I’m having a hard time coming up with any new ideas. I have the usual suspicion that we have lots of unusual and helpful ideas in action around here, but I need to see things with a fresh eye. I feel [...]
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A lot of homeschoolers are up in arms over Subway’s explicit exclusion of homeschoolers from their story-writing current contest. They are especially grieved because the grand prize is grand indeed: over $5,000 in sports equipment. Somebody’s local homeschool co-op could have benefited greatly from this prize.
I know I’m setting myself up for [...]
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A reader asked why we have our babies at home. The short, easy answer is because my parents had most of their children at home. It was the most comfortable place for me to give birth.
Of course, that’s not the entire basis for our decision! We did some research and learned that [...]
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It’s late now and I should be in bed, but I can’t help blogging this. Today I’ve been scarce online because I had a prenatal checkup. This probably isn’t as exciting for you as it is for me, so feel free to skip the rest of this post and only feign interest in [...]
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Just a quick reminder: if you haven’t already entered our giveaway you might want to hurry up and do it. We’ll take entries until midnight Friday, CST and then choose a winner to receive a free copy of each of the 2 newly released CDs from the Genevan Foundation.
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Last night mom and I made a new page for graphic design. I love designing graphics. The new page has my portfolio. I have done a few free jobs and I have gotten a few tips. I will be working for tips and donations for a while. There are details on the page.
I can do [...]
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You may have picked up on the fact that the females in our house wear mostly skirts and dresses, most of the time. Apparently The Boy has picked up on this too.
Yesterday I wore a pair of shorts, thinking I might get my legs wet in the kids’ pool to cool off during the heat [...]
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