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This is my 3rd day of Heaven. No air conditioner…Windows wide open…Sounds of kids rid­ing bikes and scoot­ers. How is this pos­si­ble, in South­ern Mis­souri, in the last part of August/first part of Sep­tem­ber?? Actu­ally, this whole sum­mer has been so mild I haven’t had to water my lawn not one sin­gle day. My grass […]

Image by Kyle Kessel­ring via Flickr It seems like I’ve flip-flopped for two years on when the best time to do home­work would be. I know the per­son­al­ity of the child should be taken into mind, and their grade, but I still strug­gle with it. Grow­ing up my folks would let me go out and play […]

Word­less Wednesday

Word is spread­ing fast in the blo­gos­phere and twit­ter­verse about the 1-year sub­scrip­tion to South­ern Liv­ing for 5 bucks.  So in case you haven’t heard or haven’t done it yet.….get your deal here. Now if you really don’t care, well.…I get it.  I’m a sucker for mag­a­zines when it gets close to Fall and Christmas.  […]

Image by darth­downey via Flickr I can barely type. It burns. And it stings. And I’m a pansy. It all hap­pened because school started. It was a typ­i­cal first day of school in try­ing to get the boys around…trying to shake off the lazy, sum­mer fog. The act of get­ting up before the sun is completely […]

Two weeks ago was the Ozark State Fair. Now, I am in no way high and mighty, but unless I just want to get a laugh out of life, I don’t go to fairs or car­ni­vals. What is it with Far­ris Wheels that brings every odd duck out of all the dark cor­ners of town? I did […]