What a Life!

The house is clean and tidy (except for a couple forlorn corners – the top of the chest in the guest room, the utility room shelves, and the shelves in the office, for goodness sake!) and I am calling it quits for the weekend. We are hosting a football party Saturday afternoon (with just one […]

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I’m still fine-tuning my daily routines, but we are doing well so far. This morning I asked Ben if he wanted to make his bed by himself or if he wanted me to help him. He thought about it for a moment and then said he wanted to make it by himself. So while he […]

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As a general rule, we do not allow our children to watch TV. Of course, there are exceptions. Ben has an Elmo potty-training video his grandma gave him along with Lady and the Tramp that Steve lets him watch sometimes on the weekend. And my early efforts at potty training consisted of Ben sitting on […]

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Our heat wave has come to an end with the arrival of a weather front that is bringing us rain and thunderstorms. It was raining softly when I woke up this morning. It’s cloudy and dark right now, and everything’s wet. The hourly forecast online says it’s gonna be raining on and off like this […]

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It used to be that giving Ben a bath was Steve’s job. But Steve doesn’t like to sit in there with Ben, and what he does instead is stuff like cleaning up the kitchen after supper and tidying the house [things which I definitely am not opposed to]. At times when Ben has played outside […]

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Yesterday morning, the plan was to go to town and run some errands, including a visit to the grocery store since we were out of milk. (I hadn’t done my usual Friday grocery shopping last weekend since we were going to Iowa and all.) I got everyone in the car and turned the key to […]

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