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From the monthly archives:

June 2008

We Have a Winner!

June 28, 2008

First of all – some of you are Google cheaters!! Oh okay, I would have done exactly the same thing. But too, too funny that so many of you Googled the store name. You are smart cookies!
Most of you were right, Handy Man and I were in Galena, IL. [...]

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Surprise! Contest!

June 23, 2008

We did it!
Handy Man and I have spent years talking about getting away for a weekend. We made theoretical plans, talked about how the boys would do without us, imagined where we would eat, and how it might be nice to dress up. Well, this weekend we had a wedding on our [...]

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Literature, Book Baskets, and Independent Reading

June 20, 2008

I’ve been researching, collecting, and purchasing books I’ve got in mind for the 2008-2009 school year – and beyond! I’ve been simultaneously dreading and looking forward to this post for awhile now. I’ve been looking forward to it because it is the end result of research, a few Amazon orders, some swifty ebay [...]

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What We Did On Our Summer Vacation

June 19, 2008

What do you do when the museum is closed, the zoo is wet, the parks are soggy and it’s your summer vacation?

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"500-Year Floods" – Images from Iowa

June 12, 2008

Why do they call it a 500-Year Flood when it struck in both 1993 and 2008? My math skills may not be perfection, but I hardly think that’s 500 years.
Since the Floods of ‘93, levies were rebuilt, lessons were learned. Still, many communities here in Iowa are under water, evacuated, without power, and [...]

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Wedded Bliss

June 9, 2008

Did you laugh? C’mon! Anything that starts with “wedded bliss” has got to be for s&g’s because anyone who’s actually been married for any length of time knows that “Wedded Bliss” only describes the ceremony. Sometimes the honeymoon.
Handy Man and I are celebrating our wedded bliss on this day – our anniversary. [...]

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"0 Days Tornado-Free"

June 6, 2008

You know those work sites that have signs up that say “151 days Accident-Free” to celebrate safety? Iowa needs ones of those that says “___ Days Tornado-Free”. Except ours would say 0. We’ve had tornadoes every day for almost a week. And we’ve got more tornado watches tonight, too. We [...]

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Ahhhhh, Grammar: Ten Little Rules

June 3, 2008

The class was tough. We had to give persuasive speeches. We had to learn the parts of speech. We had to diagram sentences. This, I thought, was surely the stupidest thing I had ever done in my 12 precocious years. I was forced to make pointless trees and lines with [...]

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