Tag: essay
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The Untold Perils of Driving with Children
The other day we were out doing errands and heading to IFA, one of my kids favorite stores. They love looking at the baby chicks, duckies, and rabbits and all the different hutches and chicken coops. I like it be cause they have great prices on lawn fertilizer and stuff that you can’t get anywhere…
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The Burrito Fiasco
We are blessed to have a little slice of entropy at our house. Entropy is the force of nature that abhors order and will pull things back into a general state of chaos. In our house this force of nature is a vivacious two-year old, although his older brother and sister definitely qualify. We all…
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Salt Dough Gone Wild!
It was one of those long stretches of summer afternoon when it was too hot to go outside. The kids slid around the house, skulking, with nothing better to do than pick fights with each other and in general, drive me nuts. Days like these scream for distraction and that day a movie wasn’t going…
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Novel Escapism
To be transported, to escape, to live another life… These are all reasons for diving into a good book. As much as we can enjoy our reality, there is something so appealing in sliding inside the pages of a story and living someone else’s life, even if just for a few hours. The kind of…
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Soccer and Herding Cats
The battle lines are drawn, the players are ready. Well . . . almost. One of the players is swinging from the goal post, and another won’t leave his mothers lap. Half the defending team has their backs turned to the ball because the ice cream truck has driven by, three are already making a…