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You know when you have an impressions that is just totally wrong? Yeah, like that. This morning I took Kid 3 to her piano lesson, and her teacher was studious in her avoidance of me. So we’re starting off this week on a good foot. She wouldn’t look at me, and when Kid 3 asked

Happy Easter. This year, Easter was a much calmer effort than in years past. (*Sigh of relief*). Grandparents kept way under control. Our house is not full of chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs, or even colored eggs (except the naturally green ones left from what Mary brought over). It has been a calm and sweet

I’m not a big breakfast fan. I like water in the morning. Maybe some other stuff, sometimes granola (I can go months in that granola and water pattern), but sometimes not. I have a white-flour breakfast family. Everyone in this house would be happy with white bread toast, white flour pancakes, bagels, muffins, scones, biscuits,

Last official day of Spring Break, although we still have the weekend. It’s been great to be lazy and have time to play together. Today was Daddy Day. He orchestrated a grand day out, and kept it all a secret from the kiddies. We drove more than an hour to a remarkable store – remarkable

Remember how I was going to get all that good stuff done? Um. Instead I found this, where the hilarious Maureen Johnson has pledged to blog every day in April. I have just spent a very funny forty minutes reading her first week’s entries. And watching the opening credits of “Fame” and maybe a little

I woke up to more snow this morning. I wonder if the fact that I neither cursed nor went back to bed means that I’m finally accepting the reality of living here in the mountains. It’s only been seven and a half years. But come on, people. It’s the middle of April! The kids slept

If I make a comment on a blog, and am required to verify, I am taken by surprise when I realize that my verification is really an actual word. Which causes me to wonder… Are all the verifications real words? Are there that many words that I have never seen, let alone understood or used?

I love the beginning stage of a first draft. A thousand words at a time, just chucked out there. There’s a little thought to pacing, and what to write and what to withhold, but mainly it is fun to just get it down. Knowing that the majority of this particular draft will probably be cut,