I can’t believe April begins tomorrow! It’s been a long winter and I’m really ready for spring…even though this spring promises to be a crazy one with a high school senior in the house preparing for graduation. He’s got a senior project to finish, baseball season is just beginning and we’ll be busy planning his [...]

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When the bottom fell out of some of my online pursuits about six months ago, I was really stuck. Although I expected some big changes, when they come, somehow you’re just never really prepared for the realities. After a few months of struggling and searching, I’ve been blessed with replacement income that I love. For [...]

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Somehow I must have missed a season somewhere….either it was winter and we jumped right into spring several months ago or spring has gone missing. Anyway, the bottom line is that we have jumped straight into summer this week. Temperatures have climbed well into the eighties and there is even a hint of humidity in [...]

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I have overheard my husband commenting on the mud situation in our yard now several times. It seems, in his opinion, that this year is the worst year we’ve ever had for mud in the yard. I’m sure it’s because the ground never seemed to truly freeze and it’s been warm enough that the kids [...]

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Time to take the plunge — we have another driver in the family and he will need insurance. Literally, as I write this, hubby is on the phone calling around and trying to get the best car insurance rates for David. As we all know, insurance companies consider young male drivers a sizable risk and [...]

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It’s a little gloomy outside and we have some wet weather coming up this week, so it’s not so nice out there…but indoors, it’s another story. Sure…it’s still winter and that means cold and gloom at times where we live. But that doesn’t have to spread to our outlook, right? We are coming up on [...]

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Well, David always walked a different road. From the start, with a brother two years older than him, he set about trying to keep up with Daniel, yet he always wanted to do things DIFFERENTLY than Daniel did them. He has always been a scrapper, too, ready and willing to tousle for his principles. Last [...]

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Well, David got his license and a new (to him) car in one day! I’d say he had a pretty good Monday, all the way around. I’m just glad he won’t be needing Olympia Motorcycle Gloves. There was a time in his distant past when he was spouting nonsense about buying a motorcycle, but I [...]

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What a day we’ve had today! For starters, David took and passed his driver’s exam first thing this morning. Then, I happened upon a much-needed windfall from a neighbor who provided us with something that we really needed. It was such a blessing! Third, we found out that Lora and Chad will be having a [...]

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While I’m not in the UK, people in any region of the world can enjoy delivered flowers. Who wouldn’t love fresh flowers by post uk? This is the time of year when I can usually stand a dose of color in the house. It’s cold, gloomy and snowy day after day outside. Inside, life can [...]

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