Lux et umbra vicissum…

Did you know that wild onions make good bait for ice fishing? Well, it’s true! At least according to my dream it is. But it’s hard to get the fish to take the hook and not just eat the onion off of it from the side. Smart fish. Oh, and some crazy person kidnapped one […]

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I got one of those cheap, big plastic bats for the girls to play with along with some of the cheap whiffle balls.  They’ve been having a blast!  The older ones are even learning good ways to throw the ball and hold the bat.  It’s fun to watch. 🙂  They’re learning to throw a frisbee, […]

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Some people mistakenly think that a child over a certain age can’t get croup.  Truth is, even adults can get croup; the biggest difference is that our airways are bigger so it doesn’t affect us as badly.  To adults and older children it comes on like a bad cold. Alexis has pretty much reached that […]

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Ok, life has been eating up my time, so here’s a brief update on what’s going on… My back’s been acting up, but it’s not as bad as it has been at times.  Still keeps me from doing a lot of household things.  I’ve had a couple of chiro appointments and they’re helping, it just […]

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Many little hands only make light work when the work looks like fun. (Otherwise, they make more work.)

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Writing a letter can be difficult for many people.  What to say, how to say it, what impressions you’re going to make, knowing how certain things will be taken when read… it can be a daunting task.

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Mental Illness.  That phrase has such a stigma.  It dredges up images of people who can’t function due to severe retardation, or people laughing maniacally somewhere in the far recesses of a hospital.  Depression actually sounds a bit better these days probably because it’s become so common, but somehow it doesn’t really capture the nature […]

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The following dialog is not really one you want to use to start your day… Joel: (in a frustrated voice) The dog’s a mess!  He peed and pooped in his crate, and he’s an absolute mess!  What do I do? Andi: (in a sleepy voice) Well, it won’t kill him to be in it for […]

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1. If you get really upset with a child and start yelling, the dog will pee. 2. The children really do listen sometimes, as shown by the three year old repeating word for word and gesture for gesture, “I don’ get water!  I get orange juice!  EVERY MORNING I get orange juice!” 3. When dealing […]

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I know several people check here regularly, so I wanted to explain this right away.  I took down two of my posts because I found out they were beginning to cause a bit of panic among some of the adoptive community.  There’s really nothing to panic about.  There was a miscommunication somewhere along the line […]

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