7 Quick Takes Friday: New Camera

At long last, we have acquired a new camera (the previous one, after a long struggle, finally succumbed to its Diva-inflicted injuries).  The vagaries of technology and markets being what they are, the new camera cost significantly less than the old one, has more functions, takes sharper pictures, etc., etc.  (Gotta love the free market, at least while [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Weird World

 
Life has been hectic, family has been nothing short of chaos-inducing (both sides, for very different reasons), my house is a wreck, and my mind isn’t doing a whole lot better.  But, as I learned as a plebe at the Academy, nothing is quite as bad as Plebe Summer, so I can put up with anything [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Homeschooling Egypt (updated!)

 
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I say this hesitantly, but I might be sort of getting the hang of homeschooling.  The porch got painted, the gardens got some weeding, the kids were both occupied and edified, and dinner never slumped to the level of frozen pizza.  [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: One Year

 
When I began blogging, one year looked like a long time away.  I excitedly marked my one month anniversary and, recently, my 200th post.  I had intended to note my one year anniversary and some of the traffic milestones, but those all slipped past while other things were going on.  So, in spite of missing [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: What I’ve Learned This Summer

 

Summer has officially set in; it’s been a weird week.  So, I offer you a short, curious, and (hopefully) fascinating hodge podge of interesting homemaking and homeschooling how-to’s.
1.  How to keep homeschooling all summer.  My intent, whenever anyone asked, was that we would keep homeschooling all summer, just on a more laid-back schedule.  Diva was supposed [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Homeschooler Conference

I was going to try to write this last week, half-way through the IHM Homeschooler Conference in Washington, DC, but the last talk finished after 9pm, I’d been up since a time of morning I’d rather forget, and I still needed a shower.  So, instead, I’ll post this as a summary of the homeschooler conference [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday

 
1.  Coming tomorrow (really, I mean it): pseudonyms!  They’ll be up there in the sidebar.  I got tired of working around my kids’ names, so here are the pseudonyms for the household occupants.  Oldest daughter: Diva.  Middle son: Crash.  Youngest daughter: Empress.  Yes, they can be sweet, loving, and nearly normal.  But on most days, these [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Notre Dame

I was getting together this collection of images of the Virgin Mary earlier this week, and lo and behold!, there were seven (sort of… I couldn’t pick just one of the Chinese madonnas).  Well, duh, guess what I though of?

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7 Quick Takes Friday (sweetness and light)

It’s been a rough week.  I don’t want to talk about it.  So, instead, here are some of my favorite things…  (and, while you’re at it, click on the post-it above to go see Jen at Conversion Diary and the other 7 Quick Takes from her other readers.)
1. and 2. Cookie dough… and “help” making it.
3.  When a [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday (Apr 17)

1.  If you missed it (oh, wait… the MSM didn’t report anything on it!), the Red Envelope Project did pretty darn well.  An estimated 2.5 million red envelopes arrived at the White House.  No official comment, of course.  Lifenews did report, however, that a mail room staffer confirmed the volume, and commented that it was [...]

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