Tag: looking well
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Calm in My Chaos
With Copper working a crazy amount of overtime, and baseball practices ramping up in preparation for the start of the season, life in my house has become busier than normal. Toss in the daily requirements of running a homeschooling household and keeping our orchards, vineyards, berries, etc. irrigated during this dry winter, and our days…
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It’s Not Always Exciting
Today was a puttering kind of day. No big, exciting projects were undertaken. No earth-shaking cooking going on. Today was a day to just tend to the everyday things that not only make a house a home, but help keep it that way. The daily chores and all of the weekly chores for Wednesday were…
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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.…
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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…
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What Happened While I Was Looking
Today was the day that I planned to sign William up for baseball. He’s never played baseball, nor have any of my kids participated in any sort of team sports. We’ve all been excited, but nervous, about the whole thing. The early registration discount expires in the next couple of days, though, so I knew…
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Goals, Yes! Resolutions, Nope.
We had a fabulous Christmas and spent New Year’s Eve, quietly, here at home watching movies and enjoying a ton of homemade goodies, both sweet and savory. It’s been quite cold and unusually dry. In fact, we’ve needed to run sprinklers on the lawns, and I may irrigate the orchard and vineyard this week if…
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Busy Circuits
You know that irritating, super fast busy signal you hear on the phone line when all the phone circuits in your area are in use? I hate that sound! In order to avoid hearing that sound constantly in my brain, as I live this life that God has placed before me, I’ve had to let…
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Copper’s Day Off – Or Not
My alarm is set for 5:45 a.m. these days, but when the phone rings at 5:20, there’s no dropping back to sleep for another few minutes. A Sargent called this morning offering my husband an overtime shift at that very early hour, so I just got up, too. I was making my first big mug…
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Little Things I Loved About Today
I love when the phone rings with one of my grandbabies calling. I love it even more when it’s one of the boys, ages 9 and almost 8, calling for their Uncle William. Today the 9 year old called and he and Will played a private, on-line game together for awhile. With only three and…