(Remember when we used to do stuff together? Before you got all big-headed?)
Dear Homeschooling,
You’ve been good to us. So accommodating and thought provoking and full of surprises. Remember the fire ants in the kitchen? Or the water wheel we made that one time? Ooh, ooh, how about when we hatched praying mantis babies, [...]

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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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(View from the window this AM. Even though I have called a moratorium on all further snowfall this year, it appears that the memo did not hit the press.)
After reading a bit about homework today, and recalling that the number one question my kids get from friends who go to school is “Do you have [...]

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(First off, if you like ever liked the Crass, Frank Zappa or, as my bro mentions, Primus, then you should go see this girl pictured above rock the Metro last weekend. If you want to know what that was like, visit Kids Ride Free over at Gaper’s Block for details!)
Yes, yes, I know, people [...]

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(Field trip to Bahai temple a few months ago. Finally figured out how to put camera phone pics on the computer.)
The setting: in front of the computer, in air-conditioning, dinner warm and ready, beer in hand.
Let me tell you how poker outs the child and his inner nature. For father’s day we got [...]

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The year I turned 18, these were a few of the hits that effected me in this precise manner: wait, dang, now you can figure out how old I am….unless I don’t actually state the year and you weren’t alive so can’t recall these songs. Okay, so this is a meme. I’ve been tagged by [...]

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(One thing I did last week instead of blogging. Took the dynamic duo to the Art Institute to admire great art and try to draw it. This charmed some old Europeans and irritated some young ones. Because Europeans appear to be the main visitors at the art museum as far as I could tell. Oh, [...]

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(Each of these lovely little ribbons represents how many times I had to hold up a score card and listen to the same exact ditty for every gymnast’s floor routine this past weekend at the YMCA State gymnastics meet. Yes, that pile goes 3 or 4 deep and several feet out of frame on either [...]

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(Urban gritty shot with visiting cousin. We’re thinking about forming a band, since we have the brick wall shot taken already.)

Found an interesting blog-related word last night on Wikipedia whilst making sure my own newly coined word wasn’t already taken.

“Boreblogging
Writing about personal matters that are barely interesting even to the writer — preferably in a [...]

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(I’ve done a thorough check and there are still no green things poking out of the ground anywhere, even though it was surprisingly sunny and warm and every Chicagoan in this teeming city was out enjoying the sunshine today.)
You know how some towns have nicer drivers than others? Or so I hear? I’ve never lived [...]

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