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Weekend Reading

And now for some sites written by moms.  🙂  (I listed some dad sites recently.)  Little Mummy is written by Erica, and it’s about life as a new parent.  Erica also shares great activity and resource ideas, and her post about making children’s dreams come...

Timer Training

How to teach your children to take turns. I don’t know if it was desperation or inspiration, but I timer trained my boys when they were very young. Okay I’ve thought about it.  It was desperation. By the time the older boys were 18 months old, I was able...

Chatterbox

I told this story to some friends, and one of them said it HAS to be here on the blog. So here it is, from 2 nights ago: Sheesh. I was in the middle of trying to figure out a rather complex problem on the computer, and Hubby was sleeping on the couch. The Mercenary...

Fine Toothed Comb

Yesterday The Mercenary was hoping to earn some extra money, so I mentioned that I’d pay fifty cents if he’d clean out the van.  It wasn’t much later that he informed me that the job was complete.  I asked the standard question:  “Will I think...

6 Tips to Help Finish a Todo List

I’ve been working like a crazy woman on my todo list this summer.  It’s pretty big, including building a block retaining wall around a flowerbed that’s about 65 feet long, hauling in about 30 yards of mulch, replacing the stairs going down to the...