Am I the only one who: – Wishes for winter when it is summer and summer when it is winter? – Hates wearing skirts to church, but voluntarily wears them on other days of the week? – Has a rule that my husband must kill any bugs bigger than a pencil eraser? – Uses the broken air conditioner as a…
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And the Living Is Easy
It is definitely starting to feel like summer (this may have something to do with the fact that our AC is broken and the inside of our house is hovering at 87 lovely degrees). Summery things we’ve done this week: – I went to a luau party (see ridiculous pictures) – We went to a pool party/barbecue. Yum. And yum…
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I Love Food
One of my friends gave me a chicken cordon bleu recipe a couple of years ago and I made it for a while until one day Bart said “I don’t think we should make this ever again. I don’t like swiss cheese.” Well. (Also, I had made this dish at least 15 times). Fortunately, just a week later, my mom…
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Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Next year, at the end of the summer, Bart will graduate from school and take a full-time job. And that job could be literally anywhere in the world (notice, friends, how I said literally when I meant literally, not literally when I meant figuratively). This means, of course, that we’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time debating where we’d like…
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Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
9 of 10: Almost too wonderful to summarize in just a few lines. Stargirl arrives at Micah High and enchants everyone with her strange and wonderful personality, particularly the narrator, Leo. But when she begins cheering for both the home team and the opposing team, the school turns on her and Leo, desperately in love with her, pressures her to…
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