Gratuitous cuteness

Why are you making me stay home alone all day?

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You’d think I was torturing him

Seriously.  You have to click on this one to view it bigger so you can really see the horror in Will’s face.
He looks like he’s really upset, doesn’t he?  Like someone had just punched him in the gut or something.
Yeah, well.
This is the pose he struck when I tried to take his picture.
Turkey.

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One of those weeks

You know the kind, the ones that make you wish you hadn’t even bothered getting out of bed.  I’ve thought about whining here on the blog, but in the end, have decided that it’s pretty pointless.  Yes, you’d all be kind and try to cheer me up, but you know what?  When I start to [...]

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Weekend in Review

Mamma Mia — twice (awesome!)
Swing Vote — once (pretty good)
Pool — twice (last gasp of summer, no lifeguards, the boys and their cousins basically had the pool to themselves)
Benadryl — once (resulting in a sleepy fog Saturday…I couldn’t concentrate on anything, thus the trip to the pool.  Why I didn’t try to find the Claritin [...]

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Two days down, 178 to go

Actually, the boys have come home from school, excited about the prospects of 4th grade.  Joe’s teacher is funny — cracks lots of jokes (which he, as a budding humorist, appreciates), plus both boys seem kind of excited about the daily assignment notebooks that they were given, it seems very “official” I think.  That’ll probably [...]

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time

What grade are you in this year?

Oh no!  She’s singing that song!!  Quick, cover your ears!

Is she done yet?

OK, pretend you like your brother and put your arm around him.

Have a good day, pals!  I know you are going to ROCK Fourth Grade!
Love you,
Mom

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72 pencils later…

The boys are ready to go to school tomorrow.
And I have the makings of blisters on my right hand.
Because, yes, they needed 36 sharpened pencils each.  And my piece-of-crap electric sharpener (which has never worked properly) finally gave up the ghost tonight.  Mark has an old-style hand crank out in the garage, but it doesn’t [...]

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Done.

Well, done knitting.  I don’t want to felt blind (in my front-loading washer) so I’ll probably wait until this weekend to do the felting over at Mom’s house.
Laying out flat like this, it measures a whopping 25 inches across and if you stretch out the curled over rows at the top, it’s 16 inches tall.
Mark [...]

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Well, that was a boring post

I’m not even sure why I bothered to post about my pleasure with the USPS shippin website, but I do apologize for boring all of you with it.  LOL
Here’s something more interesting:  a quilt I finished for a customer.  In theory, you’ll be able to click on these to view them larger, allowing you to [...]

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Simple pleasures

It doesn’t take much to make me happy.
Today, for instance:  I discovered that the USPS online label printing process has actually improved.
When I print shipping labels through PayPal, all I get is the shipping label itself.  It’s a half sheet of paper, and I bought adhesive shipping labels that are just the right size — [...]

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