Game Review: Can You See What I See?

01.29.2010 Games/Game Reviews

I love to play boardgames. And in my ongoing quest to play more boardgames, I’ve found that one effective strategy is to force invite my children to play games with me. With C(11), it’s pretty easy — he’ll play any number of fun games with me as long as he’s in the right mood. But it’s a [...]

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The Week in Words

01.25.2010 Week In Words

Melissa from Breath of Life is starting a new carnival today: The Week in Words. The idea is simple. Participants post quotes from whatever reading they did that week — any quotes that stood out to them, touched them, made them laugh, whatever. And the source can be any kind of reading — blogs, magazines, books. As long as [...]

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Something New

01.20.2010 Etc.

For months, now, my mind has been restless.
While part of me is pretty sure I have enough on my plate with just the basic, everyday tasks that come with being a wife, a mom, a volunteer… another part of me is curious, searching, looking for something new.
Something new to learn.
Oh, I don’t want to ditch [...]

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Back to the land of cold and gray

01.19.2010 Family

So. We’re home.
Oh, you didn’t even know we went away?
Yes, we did. But since I figure it’s not a good idea to announce to the entire Internet that, “We will be gone for the next four days, so our house and all our belongings are left unguarded and vulnerable”…I didn’t mention it.
But now we’re back, [...]

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Two Reading Challenges I Couldn’t Resist

01.12.2010 Reading Challenges

I admit, I don’t join a lot of reading challenges. I usually host two challenges per year (Fall Into Reading and Spring Reading Thing), and in between those challenges, I’m often ready to enjoy some unstructured, rambling reading.
But there are two reading challenges in the works this year that I simply couldn’t resist.
You already know [...]

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What’s That Face?

01.04.2010 Family
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L. (3) is often concerned with how I am feeling.
For example, though he seems to have no problem whatsoever with disobeying and defying me multiple times per hour, he would prefer for me to remain perpetually “Happy.” (And, when I appear to be not-so-happy — such as when I discipline him for the aforementioned disobedience and defiance — he’s [...]

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It’s January! Hooray!

01.02.2010 Etc.

L. (3) was happily playing with Legos yesterday morning. He received a Lego fire station set for Christmas and has spent a good portion of the last week creating everything but a fire station with it. In fact, whenever I’ve attempted to help him turn the pile of Legos into the item pictured on the [...]

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Sixteen Years

01.01.2010 Family

To Chad, my husband:
Happy Sixteenth Anniversary!
I couldn’t have asked for a better husband.
You balance me, encourage me, love me, take care of me.
It’s true, we were practically kids when we got married, which meant that things weren’t always easy.
But I’ve loved growing with you, beside you.
It’s been absolutely worth it.
And I’m looking forward to what [...]

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Y2K+10

12.31.2009 Etc.

We’ve already played boardgames tonight (my family indulged me and we played five whole games — I loved it!), and did some Wii-playing (Extreme Challenge). We munched on numerous snacks. And now, as I type this post, Chad, C (11), and I have just settled in to watch a movie, figuring it would be a good way [...]

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Some winners and some rambling

12.29.2009 Etc.

Oh, hello there.
Yes, it seems that I temporarily dropped off the face of the Earth.
There was the usual, expected stuff. The two straight days of baking Christmas cookies (yummy), the celebration of Christmas (very nice), the family gatherings (enjoyable).
But then there was also the onset of post-Christmas germs.
And so this week, when I had planned [...]

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