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Yet another Blissdom recap.

February 11, 2010
blissdom collage

I’ve now read dozens of Blissdom recaps, people who have put into words what I’ve thus far failed to do. But my mind works in photos, so I hope I can tell my story like a picture book. I will definitely miss stuff, and leave out people – still this post will be too long. [...]

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Blissdom Introduction

February 2, 2010
my video introduction

Each time I do this I wonder why… but I saw a few others around the blogosphere and really appreciated the introduction, so here’s mine. I hope you’ll consider linking up with a hello so we can recognize you and know who to look for. If you’d like to participate, it isn’t necessary [...]

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This one’s for my mom.

November 30, 2009
Togetherness - November 2009

My very favorite moment on Thanksgiving happened before the turkey even came off the grill… before the mashed potatoes… before the sweet potatoes… even before the hors devours. My mom had been texting my sister MOBS (the baby of the family) all morning saying Thanksgiving won’t be the same without her. MOBS got [...]

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Looking for me?

November 13, 2009
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In its freshman year, the I_Blog Conference is going to be a great start to what I hope grows into the biggest blog conference in the midwest.
Blog conferences are a great way to network, learn and meet other geeks writers, photographers, or memory keepers like you. I mean, you can’t really talk about blogging [...]

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Some things I learned on vacation…

September 21, 2009
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I love vacations. I love closing the computer, pretending the internets don’t exist. Not cooking. Not cleaning after cooking. Not cleaning period. I also learn a lot. Really useful things, such as:
If you eat out 2 meals a day for 12 days straight the likelihood of someone in your [...]

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10 states, 3 time zones, 2 weeks: Best Trip Ever.

September 16, 2009
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Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska and back to Iowa.

I’m exhauted just typing it. The new van has been baptized in all sorts of ways. (I’ll spare you the details. You’re welcome.) We put 3,000 miles on her over the last 2 weeks [...]

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The verdict is in…

September 9, 2009
Grand Canyon Panorama, South Rim

The canyon truly is grand.

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A Million Tulips

May 10, 2009

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you moms, but special wishes to the moms in my life! Love you.
There are entire months that go by when I can’t figure out why I live in Iowa. But then there are certain days that are so close to perfection that I can’t imagine missing them. [...]

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With Love, from Cincy

April 18, 2009

In case you hadn’t guessed – I’m in Cincinnati. I am typing from the Millenium Hotel which is right across the street from the convention center where the conference is held.
It was a bbiiiiiiiggggg convention hall.

And several days of workshops. I finally got to hear Susan Wise Bauer – one of my [...]

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Let’s Play a Game!

April 15, 2009

Guess where I am going tomorrow?
photo shamelessly lifted from Google images
And guess who I get to meet?
photo credit: GreatHall Productions
And I really hope she never finds this blog because I will just faint… but I get to have lunch with a certain HS-celeb/author/professor/wonderwoman in that pic on Friday.
*faints*

Don’t miss a post! [...]

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Easter

April 14, 2009

Family. 5 hours of driving. Lots of food. Trouble’s first time participating in the egg hunt. Enough candy to get us through Halloween. Good times.

How was your Easter? What’s your favorite Easter tradition?

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Sqqquuuueeeeeeee!

February 14, 2009

I usually try not to start my posts with school-girl-like screaming. But this time, it cannot be avoided. Handy Man has done it again.
So, remember back in December when I paired up with The Midwest Homeschool Convention for a give-away?

Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get there. [...]

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Serious Business

January 16, 2009

Once upon a time there was a very serious bride.

She never had any fun at all. Somber, sullen thing.

Her big sister was also just as melancholy. And vain. Very, very vain. She would never leave the house without makeup and all done up.

Life was very boring. No antics to be [...]

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The beach changes color.

December 17, 2008

Have you ever seen all the colors of the beach? Here in land-locked Iowa we wouldn’t know. But I couldn’t believe the colors we caught. Handy Man dragged my bootie out of bed at 5 am – sans coffee – to witness the sunrise over the beach. At the time, I [...]

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Photos up the wazzzooooooo…

December 16, 2008

Ack. I’m not even halfway through the photos. Handy Man was particularly dedicated to the camera this time, and gracious… it would take eons to photoshop all those pics. I’m not even going to attempt. I picked a few from the resort and a few that (at least from the thumbnails) [...]

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Que bonita, Mexico!

December 15, 2008

Ack! I don’t even know where to begin. Maybe with the biggest surprise of them all:
sorry, photo is a little blurry. happens when we have to turn it over! That would be Handy Man…
… who wasn’t supposed to be in Mexico at all. He surprised me! Can you [...]

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Warmth. Sunshine. Palm Trees.

December 11, 2008

Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas Iowa anymore.

Homeschoolers, don’t forget to enter the give-away for tickets to the Midwest Homeschool Convention!
As for me, I’m in Mexico. And remember MOBS? It’s dum dum da dum for her.

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Hear, Hear!

September 13, 2008

I’ve mentioned here before that my sister, Mobs, is getting married later this year. Last weekend was her bridal shower in the Chicago area. The whole fam came along, even though the party was girls-only. While I giggled and watched Mobs open about 30 different kinds of panties, the boys got to [...]

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The One That I Bore You With a Million Hot Air Balloon Pics

July 27, 2008

Sorry. It can’t be helped. Handy Man took nearly 900 pictures of the gorgeous skies at Indianola’s National Hot Air Balloon Classic. If you’re anywhere in the midwest, mark your calendars for ‘09. This one is worth the drive. We go every year as part of Handy Man’s birthday celebrations. [...]

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My Last BlogHer08 Post. I promise.

July 25, 2008

Life With My 3 Boybarians will resume its normal ramblings promptly.
I’ve spent some time reading some of the posts in the blogosphere about the BlogHer swag – and I have got to ask – was I at the same conference as y’all?! I came home with a tire gauge, a magic eight ball, a [...]

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Blogging about BlogHer from Mt. Laundry

July 23, 2008

Any stay-at-home or work-at-home mom who has left for any period of time can tell you that if you leave you will be punished upon your return. That would be so much funnier if it weren’t true. I knew I had been slacking off ’round here when Handy Man said to me yesterday, [...]

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"… a San Francisco Treat!"

July 17, 2008

I heard before coming to San Francisco a quote attributed to Mark Twain:
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
I checked on snopes.com and the man never said it. It’s totally true though. Snopes, instead, says this about San Francisco:
It may be California, and it may be lovely, [...]

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Awww. You won’t even miss me.

July 15, 2008

It finally happened! Einstein is soooo happy. He thought this day would never come. It was almost too much for him to handle when Picasso lost teeth before he did. But this morning, while brushing his teeth, this happened….
I’ll be hopping tarmacs again bright ‘n’ early tomorrow morning. Those of [...]

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Who Is Going to BlogHer?

July 11, 2008

I know you’re out there… somewhere.
The BlogHer Convention has once again sold out. That means there are at least 1000 women bloggers out there heading to San Francisco next week to network, learn, fraternize (or perhaps it should be sororitize? ), and listen to the blog know-it-alls goddesses about networking, reaching out, learning more [...]

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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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Howdy Y’all!

April 14, 2008

Green. Warm. Lush. Alive. What a change for a Northern girl. Texas is, well… huge. So maybe I should be more specific. The part of Texas (pronounced Tex-iz by the locals) near the gulf shore is tropical, warm and very alive this time of year.
In comparison, I think [...]

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Warmth, Glorious Warmth!

April 10, 2008

If it weren’t for the threat of 50 mph wind gusts I would just be squealing and jumping up and down right now. Now I just have a big smile and a nervous hop.
I’ll preempt that by admitting I am the most motion sick prone person I know. I was car sick as [...]

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Another Round of "Ask LWM3B"

March 30, 2008

It’s been awhile since I’ve answered some of the reader emails. I guess if I don’t ever answer them, people are going to stop asking. So here are some I found while cleaning out my inbox yesterday…
(1.) You travel a lot. Where ya’ goin’ all these places, girlfriend?
Well, I don’t know [...]

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Ahhhhhh. Feels Good.

January 21, 2008

Ever take a “mental health weekend”?
I almost didn’t. Wednesday night I managed to food-poison all the meat-eating members of my family with homemade spaghetti and meatballs. Even though the meat was fresh, it made us sick. Thursday was a day of reckoning for me, I think I really scared poor Handy [...]

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Curse You, PB Loco

January 7, 2008

I was once happy about supermarket Jif. I thought, you know… choosy moms chose Jif. I’m a choosy mom. I savored their creamy goodness in every sneaked peanut butter sandwich filled with way-too-many calories. And grilled PBJ? It’s not food, it’s desert.
I need the protein, I’d rationalize.
But then, [...]

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