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Today was strange. It really has been. After breakfast, I packed up all our things into my suitcase and backpack, threw a sleeve and a half of diapers and a thing of wipes into a crate, and put it all into the back of my parents’ car. Road Trip! Yup. Little Man and I joined…
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When I was a child and teenager, I hated nothing more than when my mother would say “It’s time to go work outside in the yard!” My brother and I would groan and grumble, because we would be forced to spend hours in the garden, digging, planting flowers, etc. We never got to do the…
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I don’t know what it is, but I have had such a taste for homemade bread lately. I blame it on Amy Dingman over at A Farmish Kind of Life, with all of her bread making YouTube videos lately! If you don’t know who Amy is, I highly recommend you check out her site, podcast,…
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Today is Wisconsin’s Spring Elections and Presidential Primary. And, I’m unable to vote, due to being in Illinois. Now, I applied for my absentee ballot early in March, to ensure I would be able to cast a vote today. After a week, and not receiving it, I checked online, and to my surprise, there was…
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As we are well into our respective social distancing/shelter in place/stay at home/quarantine in each state, I am constantly amazed at the number of people who are blatantly ignoring the orders and recommendations to stay at home. Chicago had to deploy their police to the lakefront to shut down the path and the beaches because…
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It’s April, and that means another emotional intelligence strategy to work on! I’m on the last month of my Social Awareness quarter, and this month’s strategy is: “Live in the Moment.” For this strategy, “If you catch yourself being somewhere else mentally, refocus and return to the present. Look at the people around you and…
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I have a branch of my family that is extremely artsy. They all love to sing, and one cousin is actually a DJ. He has done shows in Amsterdam, Germany, a ton in England (where he lives), and two years ago, he started doing family raves, with the music and lights at an appropriate level…
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Ladies, we’re going to get real here. We need to talk about menstruation, and our preparedness for it. It pains me to say it, but there are a lot of us out there that are completely unprepared for the regular visit of Aunt Flo, and it just blows my mind. When I was at WalMart…
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I realize I have written a lot about getting outside, and what we have been doing out there. I will not stop! It is so important to get outside, for your mental and physical health. Have you heard about grounding? If not, Google it, and then come back here. It is so incredibly powerful. When…
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We’re really getting into the hearts in the windows mode here. Little Man is absolutely loving our colouring sessions after breakfast. Today he did not colour very long, but his paper got cut into a heart, and it is now in our bedroom window. They are not very easy to see from the road, but…
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