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Monday, August 31, 2009

RECIPE: Pumpkin Brunch Oatmeal

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I got this recipe from my online friend, Colleen, and modified it somewhat to suit my family's tastes, and I have to say that this is th...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

I took a little break

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I am back after taking a week's break to kind of get things organized for the coming school year -- we start on Tuesday, September 1. Me...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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Are you familiar with this house? This is the famous home designed for Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Kaufman, Sr. in 1934 by seminal architect Frank Ll...

RECIPE: Zucchini bread

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Ah, August! The time of year when all those people who planted their zucchini seeds in the ground and then carefully nurtutured them last Ma...
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I could have told them that

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I read an article online today that made my mouth water and my teeth long to go crunch, crunch, crunch. Researchers have discovered that po...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Goal posts

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I have turned over a new leaf, or maybe even a whole new tree. Considering that my favorite bumper sticker reads "Housework Makes You U...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Okay, what's going on?

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For some reason, I can't view my own blog. I keep getting some stupid error message from Google. Google! Look, Google, when I need your...
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Just. Don't ever do this.

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Mondays are the days on our chore schedule when I vacuum the kitchen and laundry room, which is not as much fun as it sounds. The actual tas...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Politically grumpy

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My intention has never been to turn InsomniMom into a political commentary blog. There are enough of those. Of course, I think it could be a...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Feast Day: The Assumption of the Blessed Mother

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Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, one of the Holy Days of Obligation in the Church's liturgical calendar. Beca...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Say hello to my little dog

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I took Wimzie to the vet for her annual shots the week the girls were gone to Florida and I haven't written about it yet because I think...

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day -- A little secret

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I posted last week, I believe, about my bread-baking experiments from the book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day , by Jeff Hertzberg and Z...
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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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