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Archive for March, 2008

Dragon Cheers

Ava loves to cheer on the dragon. This was not the cutest episode we’ve seen, but it gives you an idea how much she loves to watch it eat.  

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Laughter is Good Medicine

You may have already seen this, but it just makes me smile every time I watch it. So, in the interest of everyone’s health & happy moment of the day, I post this on my blog.
(p.s. — Jake would say I’m the kid on the left — HMMMMM. . [...]

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Cabbage Soup & Swinging

Our generous neighbors gifted us with a cabbage plant, onions, carrots & broccoli from their garden today. So, in order to be frugal, After chopping up the head to use as cole slaw, I used the cabbage leaves (for anyone who wonders why they are green instead of white) to make an interesting conglomeration I call “Cabbage [...]

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Easter

Here is Ava on Easter — she’s wearing a dress & hat handed down from Anna, and her daddy thought it was a crying shame to make the child go out in public with it on. However, she was pleased as punch with herself.

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Various Things of Life

Since I haven’t updated in ages, here are various tidbits from us:
 1) Ava’s taken to eating her breakfast at the bench. Yes, I’m a lousy mom, but I really don’t care.

2) I have this geranium in front of my Mary Kay door which is likely one of the finest specimens I have ever [...]

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Dear Abby,

My 20-month-old has taken to biting and pinching me when she’s really angry and wants to make a point. Swats to the legs and snaps on the cheeks seem to leave her unfazed. My left shoulder has a scab from last Sunday when she angrily protested having to leave the playground at church. My right [...]

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Would someone else in this town please agree to stop using the sewer system so that it will become so parched that it will suck all of the pipes in our house clean? Right now, I’m convinced it’s just letting water dribble out of its mouth and back into our pipes. Why else would the [...]

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It’s been a while . . .

I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve been quite tied up trying to mold my child’s extremely strong will into something that will make her a productive adult. Notice I didn’t say “break,” because I’ve been reading all kinds of advantages to having a strong will, none the least of which is the ability [...]

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