If you don’t have a clean dish in the house… If you’ve reached the “don’t have a clean shirt, either” state… If your kids now look for clothes on the floor...
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Tag!  I’m it! Or, rather, I was given… drumroll please!… an award!  Oh, happy day!  I met Karen in person at the See Jane Become gathering, and it was such...
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Hi. I’ve been a lazy blogger lately. Sorry, I still can’t use the word “lazy” without thinking of Lara Gallagher.  (I miss your blog, my friend, but I admire your decision...
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Two.  What a marvelous age! This little monkey man is at the stage most would call “handful.” How’s that? Well, let’s just say I discovered this week that he has the amazing...
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2 Peter, Chapter One - 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance...
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Yes, the other red curtain finally fell. And I didn’t put it back up.  (The first red curtain story is here.)  Instead, I finally gutted & reorganized the laundry...
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Aw, isn’t “Little Dragons” a cute name for a class full of 4 year old Tae Kwon Do dudes? I thought so, too. Doodle was just a little bit happy, just...
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Sometimes when I think about the state of our country, I feel discouraged, dismayed, and disgusted.  ($23 TRILLION of national debt?  Oh, please.)    I was going to continue...
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It kind of feels like the whole house has been turned upside down.  In some places (cough, cough, laundry room) it looks like it, too. Here’s the one room that...
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Inspired by this, I snatched this up when I found it at a yard sale: That wall in my kitchen is much happier now. It thanks me every day, and...
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No, it’s not my “after” picture.  Don’t I wish!   This is my latest, favorite idea.   I found it here, from a comment on that last post.  (Thanks, Deb!) ...
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If your family room looks like this: You must have a front room that looks like this: The wood underneath leaves something to be desired.  In this room, at any rate,...
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Soapbox alert! I think it ironic that the holiday celebrating the birthplace of our country is named “Independence Day.”  Why the irony?  Because our country today is so badly encumbered...
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Doctrine & Covenants 134:1 We believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them,...
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I wrote a nice little post.  It took me a while.  And then the connection dropped, autosave failed me, and all I have left are the pictures I’d uploaded. GRRR. Here’s...
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