Bart has had the whole week off of work and since I’m back to working part-time, we had quite a lot of free time this week. We recognize that we won’t have zero kids forever and that this time is fleeting, so we do make an effort to use our free time wisely. After hearing from some friends that now…
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Happiness and Chocolate Abound
For the . . . um, three of you who wanted the Andes Brownies recipe, I successfully procured it tonight, thanks to Kim who brought them to the party. Now all I need is someone to have an event where I can justify making a whole pan of these mint brownies (but please – a party with only a few…
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Stuffed
I think a new rule needs to be established. When there is a barbeque or some other sort of meal where various people bring various foods, everyone needs to have their food there at the same time because otherwise you might make the horrendous mistake of filling up on hamburgers before the cheese and bread plate arrives. And then you…
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The Market by J.M. Steele
The Market is a fun, fast read with a clever premise and surprisingly likable characters. When Kate discovers that her classmates have started an underground stock market with each of the senior girls ranked as stocks and she is 71 out of 140, she decides to buy into the game and see how far she can raise her value before…
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Pay Day
Today is Pay Day (hooray! Also, I never would have guessed but you make considerably more money when you work full-time rather than 15 hours a week. This revelation shocked me, frankly). Pay Day means two things. First, that money will appear, as if by magic, in my account at 12:01 a.m. (I do not understand people who don’t take…
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