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You May Now Call Me a Mother Hen

Apparently our little chickies are operating on a different calendar than me. Based on when we put the eggs into the incubator, they should have hatched last Thursday. Allowing for 2 days beyond that, Saturday was the last day that we could consider them viable and...

Matching the Fresh Air

I wrote about the Fresh Air Fund a few months ago. This is a really neat ministry in which inner-city kids are matched up with families who live outside the city for a summer vacation. Sara Wilson, the outreach coordinator of Fresh Air, contacted me recently with some...

City Chic

Hahaaaaa, you didn’t think I was done talking about SOBCon, did you? Nope! Today I want to introduce you to a cool chick I met at the conference. Sherry blogs at CityChicOnAFarm, where she focuses on her favorite charities, her dislike of cooking, how much she...

Celebrating Father’s Day

I ran across a couple of Father’s Day events that you may like. First, if you purchase a frosty from Wendy’s anytime over Father’s Day weekend (June 20-21) they will donate 50 cents from each sale to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. The money...

I Think I Killed the Chickens

Sigh. This year in science we studied the human body, plants, and animals. SOMEone thought it would be a fantastic idea to hatch chickens as a school project. I haven’t mentioned it yet because, well, I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out. At this...

Three Things

1. I was poking around cyberspace a while back and found a site called Buzz Voice. It’s a pretty neat site though, so I signed up. It’s free to use. What it does is read blog posts aloud for you. Yes!! It really does. So, if you are dying to hear my posts...