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RSSWhen I receive a forwarded or mass email, I usually delete it immediately. But there are those rare occasions when I really enjoy what is sent. Last week a friend sent me a mass email with this link to some incredible pictures of NASA's recent Hubble mission. I've never before seen images like the one [...]
May 26, 2009
Schooling Out of Doors
May 26, 2009 By 13 Comments
One of Jerah's drawing assignments today called for her to draw something outside. And since I'm the paranoid mother that I am and I refuse to let my 10-year-old daughter stay outside in the front yard for extended periods of time by herself, I moved everyone outside and we did our schoolwork in the sunshine. [...]
April 29, 2008
WFMW: My Recipe Binder
April 29, 2008 By 5 Comments
I own dozens of cookbooks. But they're rarely used. It's just so inconvenient to have to search through all of them every time I want to find a recipe (and yes, I realize that's a really lame excuse). But now that I've been working on planning meals and baking from scratch, I've started collecting all [...]
April 22, 2008
Diapers and Duct Tape, a poem
April 22, 2008 By 17 Comments
When my youngest daughter Joely was two and still in diapers, she really enjoyed fingerpainting. Unfortunately, she didn't like using paint or paper for her creations; instead she preferred to make her own fingerpaint—which she stored in her diaper—and painted earth-tone murals on the walls of her room. This new hobby of hers, being unacceptable [...]
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