Well, the other one was fun so I made a new one. Couldn’t get the text and images to line up right so I have  rearranged things with mysterious dots which you should ignore or laugh at. Let me know if you know how to line things up without them. Once more, tag! Show us [...]

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This google images meme inspired by Nancy. I tag you regulars.
My age next year:

Place I’d like to travel:

Favorite place:

Favorite object: It is a toss up between my pen and my journal, but they have a symbiotic relationshop anyway.

Favorite food: Sucker for wasabi

Favorite animal: I debate daily with myself on this issue.

Favorite color:

Nickname: Don’t ask

Bad habit:

Something [...]

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It has been a helluva a week or two here in Candyland, Illinois. As you can see, the snow and ice(ing) are just clinging to the eaves. That shiny silver stuff on the ground is actually black ice, so watch it Erlene the mail carrier! Salt is not to be found this time of year [...]

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Grocery shopping is such a big deal in this household. There are many pain-in-the-neck aspects to be considered, ranging from the mild (we live on the second floor) to the traumatic (I’ll never get over the holiday when my then 15 month old son released 18 eggs on top of my very full cart [...]

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(I call it V-tree.)
I have to admit, when it comes to blogging, I’m all hot air. But some people actually DO stuff. Useful, techy stuff that I can’t imagine doing.  So, hats off to you at Kenwardtown.
On the twisted X-mas front, if you’ve run out of cute holiday pictures of your children and you have [...]

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A homeschooling mom in South Carolina is possibly going to be appointed the head of the Board of Education there and as suspected, some feathers are ruffling. Most of the opposition just seems downright hurt that she hasn’t chosen public schools for her kids and more folks chime in that she has no understanding of [...]

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(Fairy bowl)
Call me obsessed by the weather. I’m having a bout of insomnia so I get up to look outside at the purported ice storm that should have descended by now. There’s still ice and snow on the ground and the sky still has that horrible pink look that comes from overcast sky and [...]

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Another cold…grey…icy…day. Here.
Why don’t I ever get one of those light machines off of eBay in August when they’re cheap?

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(The elves I inherited from my grandmother.)
Well, the new Bitch is out, and she’s talking the talk about feminism and homeschooling. Seriously, the totally nice and unbitchy writer Maya Schenwar’s article addressing the topic of a new wave of radical, punk, unschooly feminists is out and yours truly is quoted in it. As is Sarah [...]

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