Susan's Pendulum

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Katie's News

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Since Katie and Nathan have made all the personal phone calls and she is now announcing it on her blog, I guess it is okay for me to tell t...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Really Good Rice

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Our standard and boring rice recipe is to cook the brown basmati in double the amount of water, throw in a little chicken Better-Than-Bouill...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

The Work of Moving

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We have the usual: cleaning and packing and making decisions. What caught me off-guard was the amount of cleaning. I thought the new house...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Otoscope

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Andrew had another ear infection early this year. At that point, I wanted to write this post but didn't get around to it. A friend too...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Better Late than Early

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Although it's the name of an education book (the philosophy of which I quite agree with!), that's not what I'm writing about he...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

House

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We gave them a whole bunch o' money. We signed the contract to give them a whole bunch more money. They gave us the keys. And the hou...
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Too Cold to Stick

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We've spent the last few days boxing up books at a fast-n-furious rate. And toys. And books. And games. And more books. When I went...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Baking

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Thanks to recommendations from several homeschooling friends, we found a place to order appliance parts online with advice on installing th...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Coping

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My friend Elephant's Child has been writing recently about her experiences fleeing leaving Africa and coming back to live in the Stat...
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Dry Roads

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Gary has been working for four weeks. Last night, during his commute home, was the first time I wasn't worried about the drive. Such ...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

Mixed Feelings

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While I was in town this afternoon, somebody came and put up a sign at church. There's a fund-raising breakfast at the fire department ...
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Unfair Tax Cuts

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I'm tempted to cut-n-paste the whole article and put it here, because I know most people don't click on links in blog-posts. But th...

John 18:8-9

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The scene is the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of Jesus' betrayal. The big crowd of soldiers have come out to arrest Him. Jesus ans...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

American Idol

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Why do so many contestants say they're doing this "for my kid"? Does it really benefit the kid for Mom or Dad to go to Hollyw...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Obama's Ad

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In anticipation of yesterday's primary, we were treated repeatedly to one of Barak Obama's ads on tv. One of the class-warfare stat...
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Pretty Peppers

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Gumbo for dinner today. I don't know what's up with pepper prices, but the red peppers were a dime cheaper than the green this wee...
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Rash

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For several years I've been struggling with a rash on a few fingers that has been slowly getting worse, to the point of being chapped an...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Gambling

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I hate gambling. I hate it. I hate trying to decide when is the time "to hold up, when to fold up, when to walk away, when to run....
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But we have fuel...

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I realize it's cold outside, but c'mon, when the thermostat is set at 68, it seems like it should be a little warmer than 62 in the ...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Boxes

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Maggie is DYIN' to start packing things into boxes. Multiple times a day, "Can we start packing now?" Paul brought home flat...
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