Last year my family sat around, dazed, as we opened our Christmas gifts. At first, the kids were really into it, and tore in with great enthusiasm. Then a strange thing happened… the excitement waned, the piles of torn paper and discarded gift bags grew, and presents were barely glanced at as they were revealed, […]
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Today’s playdate with Doodle Cakes and ShaMoo started out well enough – we met at a new-to-us indoor playground because the weather was iffy at best, and our usual splash pad get together didn’t seem like such a good idea. Wasn’t so bad, not too many kids and ours all soon disappeared into the massive […]
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Stealthily, quietly, they creep in. They Sit. They Wait. They Watch. Then there is carnage. If you have berry trees, you know what I’m talking about. I have some beautiful Serviceberry trees, and every year it’s the same thing. I get a bumper crop happening… And they move in… Yeah, I’m looking at you, […]
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