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Saturday, January 31, 2009

RECIPE: Susie's Taco Soup & Carol's Black Bean Soup

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Carol and Susie sent me their recipes for their own south-of-the-border soup specialties. Mine is Mexican Chili . We were sharing these reci...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

A laugh for a snowy day

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Aisling and I just found this video at YouTube and we laughed ourselves silly. Cat lovers will love it, and I think even non-cat people will...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

The way you look tonight

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On Saturday evening, we had Kieren, Dayden and Kiersi over for the evening, complete with Papa Murphy's pizza, brownies, fruit juice, ab...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

RECIPE: Veggie Chowder

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Last night, I was going to make cream of potato soup for dinner, but I just couldn't face it. Cream of potato soup always looks so drear...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Inauguration

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I parked Meelyn and Aisling in front of the television today so that we could all watch the historic inauguration of the United States of Am...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

2nd quarter grades at Our Lady of Good Counsel

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Last Friday was the final day of the second quarter grading period here at Our Lady of Good Counsel Junior-Senior High School, just as it wa...
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I have a dream

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I am very unpopular with my children today, the day on which our country celebrates the life and life's work of Dr. Martin Luther King, ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Excusez-moi?!?!

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I found out yesterday evening before Mass that our parish will be breaking ground for our youth center, the first proposed building on new c...

Hello, my deer

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We left Pat and Angie's house after eleven o'clock last night, driving home in a strong wind that was blowing flurries practically h...

Rock on

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This performance of Bon Jovi's rock and roll anthem "Dead or Alive" is one of those things that brings back so many memories, ...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

A pain-free life

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I'm feeling very much better now and I thank those of you who emailed me for your kind thoughts, prayers and insistence that I avoid Kay...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Completely traumatized

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Had bad wisdom tooth pulled today. Am sitting here at desk with huge, bowling ball-sized wad of cotton batting (feels like) in mouth. Comple...
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I'm a happy Catholic; a wife; a homeschooling mother of one teenage daughter and one college-aged daughter; a writer; enthusiastic crafter of countdown paper chains; a Buffy fan, a reader; a Shakespeare teacher; a literature teacher; a composition teacher; a former soap-maker; a minivan driver; an inward grump; an outward sweetie-pie; a history geek; a dog lover; a rehabilitated and repentant former thief of bandwidth; a killer of plants; a soft-hearted taker-in of strays; a reformed housekeeper; an insomniac
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