Happy Valentine’s Day!

Joy and love and Chocolate to you all! A huge box of chocolate awaits me from my favorite chocolate store. Exactly what I want ever Valentine’s and seldom get. (Sadly, it’s now made in the USA and doesn’t taste quite the same as when it was imported, but it’s still yummy!) And then we’re going…

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The Attack On The Past and Children

The new law meant to stop children from getting lead poison makes it illegal to sell children’s books published before 1985 — even at thrift shops or yard sales — so stores are throwing them out!!! Here’s more. Why in the world couldn’t some guy have penned in, "Oh, books are okay." Children seldom eat them…and…

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Tying Up Rainbows — Who Gets the Credit?

There is a phenomena that has happened to  me several times in my life, where one person copies something from another and then finds out that the first person did not make up it up after all. Example: I misremembered the rainbow line from Sunshine Superman to include the line: "while I tie up rainbows you can have…

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Sunshine Cherubim

The last few days, for the first time, the Cherubim has been putting on his socks and shoes on his own in the morning. (He’s quite capable of this, but normally his socks are a bit tight and hard to get on.) This morning before school, he actually sat down to eat breakfast when asked.…

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Dang It! The Muses Left The Loudspeaker On Again!

I stayed up until 1am last night finishing reading Mad Kestrel by Misty Massey — a rousing pirate romp about a girl pirate with a touch of magic negotiating through the crooked paths of stolen ships and untrustworthy shipmates. I don’t get to read a lot of books…all my extra time is spent with the…

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Trees

I’ve discovered that I love trees. Isn’t that weird? You think I would have noticed before this, but no. It took getting a digital camera for Christmas. Now all of a sudden, I am spending all this time taking pictures of trees. I could never have done this with film, too expensive…but with the digital camera? I’ve got…

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