We’ve already established that I have an enduring and helpless crush on my ironing, kitchen-cleaning father-in-law.  (He told me yesterday that I needed to get out more, seeing as how watching him clean the microwave gives me little shivers…)  He is more than willing to play hours of Battleship with the kids, but this trip, he has upped his game….
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To me rites of passage through life, that’s a wonderful, beautiful thing. Lance Henriksen Humans…we’re such an interesting bunch, aren’t we?  4 of 8 was reflecting the other day how funny it is that when we are children we want to be older and then when we are older, we want to be younger.  We start off early in our…
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Blessed are all who fear the LORD,        who walk in his ways.   You will eat the fruit of your labor;        blessings and prosperity will be yours.   Your wife will be like a fruitful vine        within your house;        your sons will be like olive shoots        around your table.   Thus is the man blessed…
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~~Sugar…na..na…na..na…ah, Honey, Honey….~~~ 757417AB-98EC-6747-943A-BFD7CDC336FE 757417AB-98EC-6747-943A-BFD7CDC336FE 1.02.21 1.02.05 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:01:00 +0000julielylescarr

What’s the old adage, ‘one if by land, two if by sea’?  We’ve been gently invaded by my precious in-laws, the genetic geniuses who spawned my awesome husband and then lost their ever-loving minds and let me marry him (what were they thinking?).  They’ve come down to visit for a few days and we have all been jumping up and…
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