fun meme

I stole this from pluckymama, because it seemed fun.
i am: alive, which is more impressive than it initially sounds
i think: far too much
i know: a lot of useless stuff
i want: to go back to Israel
i have: everything I need
i wish: for my children will grow up and be happy
i hate: feeling like I haven’t done [...]

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Teachers

My kids went back to school today, despite Maya’s current professed desire to end her schooling at grade 6. It prompted this reminiscence: 
When I went to university, I admit I started off quite confidently. I had graduated high school at the very top of my class, walking away with a handful of awards for the highest [...]

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boring bloggyness

I feel like I should post something, but don’t have anything interesting to write about. And I’m on my laptop, which makes showing you pretty pictures harder.
I’ve been spending this week slowly cleaning up my front garden, clearing away old leaves to discover what interesting plant is growing underneath. I frequently forget what I’ve planted, [...]

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Parenting techniques

When I was a teenager, a close family friend (so close we called her Aunty) used to keep her own children in line by threatening inappropriate public behaviour. She would, for example, happily lie down on her back in the grocery store with all her limbs in the air like a dead dog if someone [...]

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Words with pictures

I have been writing posts from my laptop, which don’t have my photos on it, so they’ve been rather visually-boring. Here’s a little more interesting post (visually, anyway).
Here’s Boo learning to ride a 2-wheeler. At 5 years old, she is accomplishing this task a good year ahead of her siblings. She can add this to [...]

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Firefly, etc.

I just got a comment on an old post, in which I had some photos of my soapstone carvings. It caused me to go look at the post once again and I saw that pluckymama had recommended, in the comments, a TV series to follow up on my Six Feet Under binge. I told her [...]

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Sam-I-Am

So, we’re just kind of hanging out here tonight, being lazy about bedtimes because the kids don’t have school tomorrow. J and I were just chatting and Boo showed up with Green Eggs and Ham. “I’m going to read this for bedtime stories, okay?” Okay, we said, and continued our chat. She settled between us [...]

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The other shoe drops.

A couple of days ago, while reading Maya and Asher our book at bedtime, my brother called. He lives far away and we don’t talk a lot, so I had the chutzpah to ignore the children for about 10 minutes and talk to him instead. And then it was their bed time. I had betrayed [...]

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Miracle

Miracle: an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause; such an effect or event manifesting or considered as a work of God.
That is so not me.
I’m starting to get out and about more. The first day I went to [...]

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achy breaky

Here’s the thing: the painkillers I took mostly didn’t do a thing for the pain I was in. Sometimes, if I took a dose then lay down in a quiet room and closed my eyes and didn’t move and the children actually left me alone, it would kick in and at that moment, all the [...]

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