Stop the Addictions!

It’s tough to be small. You’ve got no control over anything.  Your parents start you on these little addictions and then stop you and you can’t do anything about it.
Pacifiers.  Again.
We’re doing pretty good with those. They don’t use them at all at daycare. It’s home that’s the problem.  By the time they get home, [...]

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Kidlette Update

The kids are growing like weeds.  It seems like all of a sudden they hit a new milestone and you’ve got a whole new set of kids.
They’ve got way more words than they did a week or two ago.  They’re now able to listen to explanations about why they have to do something instead of [...]

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Busy, busy, busy

(That should, of course, be said in the voice of the magician from Frosty the Snowman)
It seems like forever since I posted something.
You know all that stimulus money the feds are throwing around? Yeah, well, it all has to be reviewed by someone.  Our office reviews everything the feds are funding in Michigan except for [...]

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Why Haven’t I Done This Before?

I had to run to another building to pick up some files this morning.  I took my bike.  The weather was fabulous!  Clear blue skies, birds chirping, grass growing, leaves coming out on the trees.  Since I was just zipping from one building to another, I left the helmet in the office. I had the [...]

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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

And yet I suddenly have one.  A big one.
Last Monday I took the day off to transplant roses.  It was part of a bigger plan.
When we bought the house, there were raised flower beds in front of the house.

Unfortunately, the bed on the left was allowing water to get into the house and the floorboards [...]

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