Freak Parade

Um, yeah. So, hi! Long time no blog. I didn’t die or anything dramatic like that. Just took a bit of a hiatus. I’m not entirely sure what prompted it. I took a bit of time off after my entry about getting older was quoted on another blog and picked apart by a bunch of […]

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Why do I love this picture?
This was taken in a mirror in our dining room. My daughter is sitting on our dining room table. She appeared behind me as I was checking out my fancy new camera strap in the mirror. I started taking pictures, but couldn’t get one with both of us looking at […]

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Reaching yet another birthday and living to tell the tale has caused me to do some thinking. Pretty much since the age of 18, I have had nothing but contempt for the process of getting older. The weight gain, the wrinkles, the responsibility, the complete un-coolness that comes along with it. Why on earth […]

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Why no, I do not have a bazillion things I need to be getting done right this very minute. Not at all. Spending an hour making a completely ridiculous video was an excellent use of my time. Excellent. Click and see for yourself. I have to warn you though…it is three minutes of your life […]

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Many people have a negative impression of homeschooling overall. I get that. I hear about it. I experience it. Whether it be negative or positive, people usually have an idea in their heads of what kids that are homeschooled are like. The images are either the socially backwards, maybe a little weird kids or the […]

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So about nine million years ago, The Boy and I squared off on the issue of his messy room. You all voted and gave very well thought out suggestions. All big improvements on my approach to dealing with his pig sty of a room, which was banging my head against the wall and muttering […]

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“I want to spend time with family and friends, even if they sometimes drive me crazy. Really crazy…..”
Scratch that, Santa.
Make that…I would like to spend time with some members of my family. The rest are crazy. Crazy. As well as frustratingly passive-aggressive, but whatever. Merry Christmas, indeed. Hrmph.
So, I just don’t get the whole passive-aggressive, […]

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Dear Santa:
I have been very good, sort-of good, decent, passable this year. With that said, I’m not asking for much this year, but there are a few things I’d really like……
This year, I want to take every opportunity to enjoy the holidays.
I want to watch corny movies.
I want to build memories with my kids.
I want […]

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Thanksgiving is over. I have stuffed myself with good food…and restuffed (and restuffed, and restuffed) myself with leftovers. As the calendar gets ready to flip to December, I am busying myself…by programming my DVR to record all varieties of cheesy Christmas movies. Don’t ask me why, but I am a sucker for the mushy, fluff […]

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Yeah, so I thought I’d keep from clogging up your feedreader by doing the opposite of NaBloPoMo. Forget that posting everyday in November business…I’m a rebel…..I’m not going to post, like…ever. No, really, I just haven’t been feeling it, I guess. Too tired. Too uninspired. Too something. I haven’t even been able to scrape […]

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