I don’t claim to be Madame Curie, but I do run a lab of sorts, a scientific environment ripe for observing the tendencies and patterns that govern the housekeeping habits of my day. In my laboratory, we test such burning theories as “How long must you allow oatmeal to sit in a bowl before it hardens to the consistency of…
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Always trying to encourage the kids’ natural talents…..Sat, 17 May 2008 15:40:00 +0000julielylescarr

It’s so fun to check out all the little widgets and gadgets available for blog sites. It’s my kind of shopping–techy, sparkly and free. Everything from little clocks to rotating factoids to conversion tables populate the numerous ways to individualize the enormous collective known as bloggers. I keep trying to remember Jackie O’s precept to put on all your chosen…
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6 of 8 only last year ended her reign as baby of the family, the only one in the family to have held that position for so long, almost 4 years. We worried about how she would respond to the change in title and titular privilege, but I have to say, she has continued on without really acknowledging that a…
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You would simply be amazed at the things people feel free to say to you when you show up in a grocery line with a large number of children. Many an intimate conversation has been had in the cozy confines of check-out with an absolute stranger who is dying to know what kind of birth control I practice, the method…
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