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  • Funny February & Our Mocha Secret

    February is a peculiar month. The thrill of the holiday season is long forgotten. The anticipation that comes with the start of a new year is now fading. Spring is several weeks away. For all of that, February is a lovely month for staying put and enjoying our homes. I packed away my small collection…

  • Copper’s Day Off – Crunching the Numbers Edition

    My husband was home today. Hooray! We spent a good portion of the day adjusting our budget. It’s not a task either of us particularly relish.   We are, quite happily, debt-free now, with the exception of our home. That made making the budget adjustments for rising utility and food costs a wee bit easier.…

  • Home Cookin’ – Menu Plan Monday

    There’s nothing like good, old-fashioned home cooking! From pancakes fresh off the griddle in the morning, to Steak Burrito Bowls at lunch, and ending the day with a family favorite for dinner, home cooking is just plain ol’ good! I’m already mapping out some new recipes to try in the coming weeks, but this week…

  • The S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Acrostic

    The S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Acrostic. The week as captured in eight photos and eight words, in an acrostic format.     Saturated     Adorable       Thirteen     Unkempt     Reading   Detailing Ailing     Yarn If you’d like to do your own Saturday Acrostic, you’re welcome to do so! Take eight…

  • The Hundred Days

    It’s not a secret that I love to read. I read from a wide variety of genre, including the occasional jaunts into a series of novels. Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels were one such series. There are twenty complete novels in the series, and I’ve enjoyed each and every one of them. Unfortunately, Mr. O’Brian died while…

  • Fixing the “Broken Window” in the Schoolroom

    I’ve had a broken window in my schoolroom for several months. Oh, don’t worry. There was no broken glass involved. I’ve talked about the broken window concept before in this post. In brief, one broken window in a neighborhood, if left unrepaired, might lead to other windows being broken by vandals, leading to a slow, steady decline…

  • Copper’s Day Off – My Baby Is Thirteen Edition

    My husband declined the opportunity for overtime today because we had a birthday to celebrate. I love my kids’ birthdays. I always have! Celebrating their special day, taking them out to the restaurant of their choice for dinner (or lunch, as we did today), inviting extended family in, and watching them blow out the candles…

  • This Week’s Menu – January 23, 2012

    It’s been awhile since I’ve posted our menus. I’ve been following more of a Flying By The Seat of Your Pants Approach to menu planning for the last several weeks. It works for me for awhile, but sooner or later I hit that brick wall of reality and need to get back to a system that…

  • Showing love

    It’s interesting, I think, when a friend who blogs links to to a post I’ve written in the past. It’s humbling, too, especially when I go back and re-read the post and realize that I’ve not followed through as I’d hoped I would, or, as in this case, that I’ve not made any forward progress…

  • Copper’s Day Off – Red Couch Edition

    Today was Copper’s day off. It’s been quite a long while since he’s been home with us on a Monday. All of the overtime he’s been working has been directed toward some needful things in and around our home.     Our big couch was in fairly good shape, the love seat only in fair…

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