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Whew!…I think Old Man Win­ter has finally given his last hooray in the Ozarks.  Just in time for St. Patty’s day.  It’s such a refresh­ing holiday.…so fun for the start of Spring. Except for J and I, it’s a lit­tle more. For us it’s a reminder of many moons ago, when he asked me to date […]

 Dear Diary, I wanted to record my con­ver­sa­tion with Grem­lin about how babies are born. I’m afraid I won’t remem­ber if I don’t write it down.  Geez O’Pete! I’m 37 not 73, yet I’ve already for­got­ten some of the details! Some­how the con­ver­sa­tion started with Old­Man, then he asked me if I wanted him to […]

There are tons of tips out there so I’ll just add a few that have made my life eas­ier: Get­ting kids out of bed in win­ter time — Warm their clothes in the dryer for a few min­utes.  They know they only have a few min­utes before the clothes start cool­ing off so they jump […]

…and I’m excited to the point of tin­gling fin­gers! But this will be weird for me. I’m used to going to con­fer­ences with col­leagues and being on the panel or MCing or being the comic relief…you get the point. I have vol­un­teered myself with BlogHer with the hopes that I’ll feel more com­fort­able. And then […]

D tagged me (ok, so I asked for it…whatever!) for a let­ter meme. Rules:  If you would like to play, here’s how: tell me by leav­ing a com­ment on this post, and I will assign you a let­ter. Then post ten things you love that begin with your assigned let­ter on your blog. Explain the rules […]

If you fol­low me on Twit­ter, then you’ll know that for the last few weeks I’ve been deal­ing with some irri­tat­ing appli­ance issues. My wash­ing machine had been with me for more than 15 years and it was finally giv­ing up the ghost.  Wash­ing for messy boys ever day was  a lit­tle much for her, […]