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Happiness Is…

Have you ever seen the book called Happiness Is A Warm Puppy by Charles Schultz? I have an old beat-up copy from my childhood that I treasure. I was thinking about that phrase this week and started a list of things that complete it. You know. Just for fun, not deep...

8 Ways to Tease a Boy Out of a Bad Mood

1. Inform him that he needs all that negative stuff drained out and to be filled with happy thoughts instead. Suggest something he’d be appalled by, like painting pink daisies on his toenails. 2. Imitate the whining he’s doing and morph it into the whine...

Puddle Jumping

This little episode happened last spring. I ran across the pictures when I was going through my files and thought I’d share it with you, Internets.It was a lovely warm spring day. The rain had ended and there was a perfect puddle waiting at the end of the...

Culture Shock

A member of my homeschooling group put out an invitation for a field trip to a ballet performance of Don Quixote at the end of the month. I’ve never taken the boys to a play or ballet because I didn’t believe they’d sit and enjoy it. But this sounded...

Epiphany

Ever have one of those moments? You know, the one when you smack yourself on the forehead (figuratively speaking) and say “duh!” to yourself? Kind of like the V-8 commercial. Well, I had one this past Tuesday. True confession here: I’m not a morning...

BLIZZARD…2008!!!

Yeah okay maybe not so much a blizzard. Just thought I’d beat the meteorologists to it, since we haven’t had that particular headline locally yet. But we did get a bit of snow here yesterday. It was deep enough that Hubby had to stay home from work and...