Last week I was sort of a blogamist. I wrote a blog post for one of my secret other blogs. I don’t usually sneak around behind RH’s back like that to get my kicks, trust me. It’s just that RH doesn’t have video capabilities like Viropop does. I’ve been hooked on watching their podcast about [...]

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(what Easter looked like at our house)
Okay, get out your interpretation journals. This one isn’t an aimless, rambling recollection. It has a punchline.Last night I had a dream that I was at a beachside casino (Ken and I used to work for one in another life) for our annual homeschooling conference (really? At a casino? [...]

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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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(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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(I is sleepin’ on yer daughter while she readz me stuff about the enviromint.)
Lori gave me a heads up about BLOG ACTION DAY…I wish I could have provided a bit of dramatic echo there. Anywho, the idea is that on October 15th, which is Blog Action Day, everybody blogs about the environment in a way [...]

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(The day the neighborhood sticks had their block party.)
Yesterday’s topic was a bit heavy. So, in the interest of lightening things up, let’s talk sticks. How do you feel about sticks? Chances are, if you are a female and reading this, you haven’t given sticks much more than a second thought. Maybe you have [...]

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We had some weather excitement yesterday. I took 4 kids to the movies. It was sunny and hot when we went in and windy and ominous when we came out. I dropped off the youngest to his mom and she told me there were tornado warnings in the western suburbs. We are very west [...]

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(The artist Francha knows how it works! This illustration is for an upcoming children’s book, which I hope will give me some ant invasion tips…
I am not here to brag. I am not saying they’re gone for good. That would be too cocky. I have known them to take short breaks before they reconnoiter. I [...]

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A cell phone is a handy thing. I remember when my Dad got a “car phone” in the 80’s and it was so big it took up 1/3 of the front seat. It took me a few decades, but after we started homeschooling, which meant tons of travel to and fro in various forms of [...]

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