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Reverse Resolutions

Happy New Year, everyone. I’m a little behind the times on offering up that wish. Sorry. 🙂 Lots of busy-ness here at Earnest Parenting. Tomorrow (or today, if you’re reading this at a normal hour on Friday) I am hosting ten (10!!) children. I’ve got...

Wherein I Admit A Little Secret

Joe at Fathered Five tagged me for a meme about my book-reading habits. I’ve been avoiding putting the truth down in writing here at the blog, but it has to come out sometime. I haven’t read a book in at least a year. There. I said it. Okay well, I wrote...

Renewing Your Spirit: Fresh Air

Have you ever gotten to the point in life where you just couldn’t think anymore? Where your head literally felt fuzzy when you tried to process even one thought? I have to admit, I got there today. I’ve been processing a lot of paperwork and answering a...

Birthday Serenade

Today is my birthday. I’m planning to spend the day with quilting buddies at an all-day sewing event so Hubby, the boys, and my in-laws celebrated at dinner last night. The cake was delicious! Hubby had a baker make it and she calls it canolli cake. I’ll...

Honoring Some Heroes

On our vacation we stopped and spent some time at the United Flight 93 Temporary Memorial in Shanksville, PA. When I was looking up our vacation route last month I noticed that we were going to drive within about a half hour of the crash site of Flight 93. As soon as...

Visiting Grandpa

Caregivers are heroes. I just spent several days with my grandfather and his wife. Her name’s Anne. She’s my grandmother by marriage, so I’ve always called her by her first name. No disrespect has ever been intended…it’s just that I...