Friday fave: Motherhood, or dying to self

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On Friday, some Fridays, anyway, I like to re-run a favorite blog post of mine from the archives. This one originally ran in...

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How do you measure the quality of a life?

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Normal 0 0 1 297 1693 14 3 2079 11.512 0 0 0 (cross-posted from Bound4Life) When you live with a chronically ill...

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wisdom tooth: a tale of woe

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I know you people revel in my disasters. I'm all like oooh blood and guts and hot glue and fall leaves and everybody...

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Losing Travis

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I lost a cousin today. You can't ever be ready for it, even when you answer the phone and know. Travis and I...

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homeschool fail: I lose the war

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You know what they say... well, they say a lot of things. It could be anything. "Don't eat yella snow!" they say. "Kissing...

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shut up and talk to me: marriage

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Normal 0 0 1 417 2377 19 4 2919 11.512 0 0 0 “And then she said,” I say, warming up, “that navy...

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Be nice: a deliberate cyber-rebuke

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Normal 0 0 1 504 2876 23 5 3531 11.512 0 0 0 Disclaimer: This is not directed at anyone specific, that would...

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Friday favorite: Laws of Moses to mothers of toddlers

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Revisiting some of my favorite posts from the past, click the link to read the excerpted post in its entirety. These are the...

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waging war on the British and the bathtub

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Disclaimer: this is not going to turn into an exclusively homeschool blog. But even if it were, you should read it, because anything...

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art project: color wheel of TERROR (except not terror)

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Today was our art day at El Escuela de Clarks en Miniatura. Technically, it should have been a science day, but I switched it...

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fiction and psychology

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I've been reading a lot of fiction lately. I usually don't have a ton of time to read, because of Facebook. Oh, and...

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rain

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it's grey today but a cheerful grey one that says rain is coming open the windows and smell the new and the wind...

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killing the babysitter: shutting down the screens

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Disclaimer:  I know I have a 13 year old. I live with him, and I remember being a parent back when movies were still...

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I am on a diet: a lament

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I'm trying to write a blog here, but I'm on a diet, and it takes a lot of focus. I pretty much have...

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