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Just When You’re About to Auction Off the Children…

After a looooong day that included drama, tears, grumpiness, a smashed cabinet and dented wall I was ready for boys to go to bed.  Hubby handled most of the bedtime routine while I was painting downstairs.  I got called up for prayer time, hugged the boys goodnight,...

Can You Fix Your Own Appliances?

Sheesh. I’ve been offline enough that I didn’t even mention my weekly post over at Forever Parenting. It’s all about the, ahem…adventures we’ve been having with the washing machine around here. Have you checked into the cost of having an...

The Other Side of the Story: Links About CFLs

Oooookay.  In my previous post I listed several facts about Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs (CFLs).  I did not include links to support my claims because I was going to include them as part of my follow-up post explaining how to evaluate information.  Unfortunately...

Evaluating Information

In The Other Side of the Story, we talked about Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs) and the fact that while there are terrific advantages to using them, there are also disadvantages. My point in bringing the issue to you wasn’t to slam environmentalists, or...

The Other Side of the Story

How many of you have heard of Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs (CFLs)? Great. Now, how many of you have them in your home? Yes, uh-huh. Thanks. You may put your hands down now. Most likely, everyone has heard about the advantages of CFLs by now: even though the bulbs...

Living Up to the Nickname

I’m not really strongly invested in the boys learning to write with perfect penmanship.  Between keyboarding and advances in voice recognition software, I figure that actual writing will be a pretty small percentage of their day by the time they’re...