I have been dreaming of living in a small town…  I have my fantasy all worked out in my head.  We would buy a quaint little house with a garden.  A garden is a must.  We want the freshest veggies all summer long, and frozen for the winter months.  I want to work in the [...]

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I have been sick since yesterday.  Nothing dire.  Just a cold, but I’ve felt like death warmed over.  It’s harder being sick as a mom because you can’t just go crash for six hours and be better.  The baby isn’t sick.  He doesn’t want to sleep for six hours.  He wants to eat, play, be [...]

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I am now back at the very beginning of the creative process again…  the place where I have a general idea of a new book I would like to tackle, but haven’t exactly worked out the plot yet.  My new idea is a children’s book.  I have written children’s books for my nieces and nephew [...]

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The term “sleep like a baby” is a horribly deceitful and cruel phrase.  Lately, I have been looking online at all sorts of sleep teaching techniques.  Babies are supposed to sleep in their cribs all night long, aren’t they?  But my son has a strong aversion to his crib.  Just won’t sleep in it at [...]

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I’m about to get all Adventist on you for a minute.  I hope you don’t mind.  I normally feel rather uncomfortable getting all Adventist…  it’s sort of one of those things that makes you Adventist!  Like ask an Adventist why they asked for a LT sandwich instead of a BLT.  They’ll probably smile sweetly and [...]

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Domestication.  It happened when I got married.  It sounds kind of cliche, but I wasn’t always this way.  I didn’t always see a bunch of spotty bananas and think “banana bread!”  I didn’t always see a cube of margarine and some softening apples and think “pie!”  Somehow, over about three years, I became domesticated in [...]

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While I was sitting in the doctor’s office, waiting for my husband to be finished with his appointment, I was in a row of chairs in front of a large panel of windows looking outside.  This was a strategic place to sit.  Jr loves to look outside, and I love to people watch.  We were [...]

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I have a confession to make… I am addicted to “Desperate Housewives.”  Really, seriously addicted!  I can tell myself, “Self, you have work to do!  Get to it!”  What do I find myself surfing towards online?  Those fiesty ladies of Wysteria Lane…  I just can’t seem to help it! You don’t have to convince me.  [...]

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Posting a blog when you are moody is generally not a good idea.  I tried to write something that avoided addressing the fact that I feel a bit blue, and it turned out rather strange.  So I decided that honesty is the best policy. I am blue.  I was given a rather judgemental comment on my [...]

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With Thanksgiving coming on (in Canada, at least), I am focused on getting a proper Thanksgiving meal put together.  “Proper” is relative, though, since my husband and I are vegetarians this month and one more turkery will live because of us.  Also, we are having my sister-in-law come for her very first Thanksgiving in Canada!  [...]

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