Today’s humility moment

[television drones in the background while ice skaters move to music I vaguely recognize as being from a cartoon]
me : Listen, S., it’s Bugs Bunny music!
3 y.o.: No, Mom, it’s Tom and Jerry music.
His father is so proud.

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13 things I love about shopping at Meijer

Actually, this would more accurately be titled: 13 things I love about shopping at Meijer with my 3 year old.
If you don’t like crass commercialism, click away now. But of late, I have been struck with how close to pleasant it can actually be to shop with a 3 year old in tow while searching [...]

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The 12 prayers of Christmas

As my pretend BFF Beth Moore likes to say, “You got to deal with your stuff.”
And, oh, isn’t there something about having children that bubbles up all that stuff that needs to be dealt with? My pBFF pointed this out in Believing God (I think) when she noted that Enoch first begat Methuselah, then he [...]

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I did it

We-e-e-ll doggies! I felt a bit like Granny cookin’ her lye soap out by the cee-ment pond, but I did it; I made batch one of “bloginmyeye’s homemade launderin’ soap.”
It was actually fun, and I am quite pleased with the results thus far. I just took the first load out of the washer, and [...]

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If I were a shoe

If I were a shoe, I’d be a red silk flip flop.

If I were a city, I’d be Paris.

If I were a season, I’d be summer.

If I were a car, I’d be a Volkswagen bug.

If I were a vegetable, I’d be a pea.

If I were a fruit, I’d be a grape.

If I were a [...]

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Kindly congratulate our winners

The winners are commenters:   #86 xoeskie, #119 Jamie, #172 Momto2Boys, and #220 Lizzie. Congratulations gals! I’ll be emailing you further details later today.

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