This & That

Hi misslionheart.  I’m still here.
Last week was kindof nuts for me. Boy am I glad I don’t have to work during these early years as a parent. Whew! My hat is off to all you working moms. Wednesday through Friday last week I attended a Senior Spouse Leadership Seminar. [That means wives & [...]

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Deleted a Post

Well, I’m not in the habit of deleting posts. This may be the first. But I never felt good about having given in to the temptation to rant since the moment I clicked publish. After arguing with myself about it for a number of days, I decided it was not appropriate here, on this blog. [...]

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Corn & Pumpkins

Yesterday B and I went with a group from church to a corn maze/pumpkin patch. It was a blast! For starters, another mom rode along with us with her 4yo boy. Listening to them jabber all the way there and all the way back to our meeting place was well worth the trip, regardless of [...]

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Saturday Ups & Downs

There was a post-wide yard-sale event Saturday, so guess what I did. Yup, I could not miss out on a chance to go “yardsaling.” I don’t think I’ve done that since last summer – over a year now. In VA, during the summer, Saturday morning yard-sales offered a chance for me to get out by [...]

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“Confessions of an Imperfect Mother”

I somehow acquired a subscription to Child magazine. I have no recollection of subscribing or sending a check, but each month a new issue appears in my mailbox. I don’t really care for the magazine as a whole, but it has come in handy for finding pictures to cut out each week for B’s counting [...]

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Shattered Peace

I didn’t believe what I had just read – that can’t be right. A Fox News alert had come to my inbox and I had opened it to see if it was really newsworthy:
PA. POLICE REPORT ‘A NUMBER OF PEOPLE’ SHOT DEAD AT AMISH SCHOOL; GUNMAN SHOT AND KILLED
Two more emails came in with more bits [...]

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