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7 Quick Takes Friday

by Filed Under: 7 Quick Takes Friday, Homeschooling, Keeping It Real, Minnesota Me, Motherhood, My Writing Elsewhere 23 Comments

[Vol. XX for Me]The Flummoxed-By-Life Edition~ Take 1 ~There are days when I should not be teaching.If I must teach on these days, I should do it from…oh, I don’t know…the table at Caribou Coffee while sipping a pumpkin spice latte.Except…would all that caffeine really help my mood, if my mood’s so bad I should not be teaching? Case in point: on … [Read more...]

A Minnesota State Fair Recap

by Filed Under: Family Fun, Keeping It Real, Minnesohta, Minnesota Me 10 Comments

Subtitled: Pigs are hot dogs!This is a story about a mom and her plans for a perfect day at the fair.Ha.Nice try, lady.I have read that the Minnesota State Fair may be the largest state fair in terms of daily attendance.After our visit this past Wednesday, I would say hmm.I suppose that’s accurate.Let’s just say that one doesn’t attend this fair to … [Read more...]

Going to the Fair Fair Fair

by Filed Under: Family Fun, Keeping It Real, Minnesohta, Minnesota Me 5 Comments

Aka The Great Minnesota Get-TogetherAs you read this, we are at the fair. Do you see us? I’m the one covered with powdered sugar and sunscreen; they’re the ones reeling and clutching my skirt.The state fair is all about sugar, you know—sugar and grease and yet more sugar.See this link if you don't believe me.Oh, and money. Let’s not forget the … [Read more...]

The Crank

by Filed Under: Keeping It Real, Minnesota Me, New Baby 9 Comments

Hello, my name is Baby Toddler George.And I am a great big grumpy crank.My mom wants you to know that she misses her daily chats with you but that--I'm crying as she types this, by the way--she is being held captive by her teething toddler.Literally.I'm yanking on her skirt bottom as we speak.With love & blessings & wails & oh, how … [Read more...]

From 0 to 60, PetSmart-Style

by Filed Under: Family Fun, Keeping It Real, Minnesota Me 15 Comments

Subtitled: I’m sorry, John, but this is what happens when you take off on me.It all started with a toad on Tuesday.Two toads, actually. And then one escaped and the other remained, trapped and miserable in a purple plastic bucket in the corner of our driveway.“Angela, please. Will you let that poor toad go, already?”“I’ll let it go when you get me … [Read more...]

Wild Things

by Filed Under: Family Fun, Keeping It Real, Minnesota Me 4 Comments

So do you remember this kid who turned 13 on Sunday?(He's the one on the left.)Well, I would have done a birthday post in his honor, but I was too...distracted, as it were, carrying on with him at a local amusement park. Because my husband was busy getting ready for a canoe trip, he asked that *I* be the one to take Joe & Jem and two of their … [Read more...]

I am having one of those days where…

by Filed Under: Hearth & Home, Just Me, Keeping It Real, Minnesota Me 4 Comments

...so help me, if I don’t find that single, snotty piece of paper I am going to SCREAM! There is nothing—nothing, I tell you—like a dose of disorganization to send me careening off into a thousand different directions.“What’s up with this messy closet?”“When’s the last time this drawer’s been cleaned?”“School? Who’s got time for school?”(Not … [Read more...]