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7 Quick Takes Friday

February 13, 2009 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: 7 Quick Takes Friday, Minnesota Me 12 Comments

(Volume IV for Me)~ Take 1 ~The kids have been taking piano lessons at the same St. Paul studio for three years now. Because we go during the off hours, (i.e. at the crack of dawn), we are often the only ones there and get to have our run of the place. Oh, once in awhile there will be another homeschooling mother or a rare toddler music class or … [Read more...]

7 Quick Takes Friday

February 6, 2009 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: 7 Quick Takes Friday, Growing Up, Just Me, Minnesota Me 8 Comments

The Scanned, Autobiographical EditionIn gearing up to resume the telling of my conversion story, I thought I might share a few images from my past--seven of them, because it is, after all, 7 Quick Takes Friday.Do you mind revisiting my past with me? Here are a few of the people and ideas that shaped a much younger Margaret, pulled straight from the … [Read more...]

7 Quick Takes Friday

January 23, 2009 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: 7 Quick Takes Friday, Minnesota Me 20 Comments

~ 1 ~I am thinking about possibly returning to my South Beach Diet discussion of three weeks ago. I’m considering it. Maybe.Then again, I may just continue to hide out behind my keyboard with a bowlful of peanut butter-filled pretzels and not blog about such controversial topics ever again.~ 2 ~Speaking (or not speaking) of diets, I am emceeing … [Read more...]

7 Quick Takes Friday

November 28, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: 7 Quick Takes Friday, Hearth & Home, Just Me, Memes, Minnesota Me 9 Comments

Courtesy the invitation of Jen from Conversion Diary. I am loving this week off from the children’s formal studies and am using it to catch up on all my lesson-planning DVD-viewing. I am nearly finished with this series, alas, and must savor the last two episodes. Are you as fond of war movies as I? Or do you avoid them like the plague? If you are … [Read more...]

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