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Archive for August, 2009

I’m not certain exactly how I came upon it, but I stumbled across The Happiness Project this weekend. It seems so timely, as I currently savor the small things which make me happy. I believe we make our own happiness based on how we deal with the world around us. Is your glass half full [...]

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The CDC plans to suggest that all male infants be put through genital mutilation. Their supposed reasoning? Circumcision *may* lessen the chances of a male homosexual from contracting HIV, based on a faulty study done in Africa. Check out Mothering’s article, The Truth About Circumcision and HIV, to see a broad overview of the problems [...]

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With each of our children, sometime around or shortly after 6 months, they began grabbing food and sticking it in their mouth. We never gave them baby cereal – the nutritional equivalent of ground up cardboard or spooned liquid goop into their little mouths. As with everything else in life, we watched as they followed [...]

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I find that lately I need to appreciate some of the little things in life that really make me happy. Today, it is clean sheets. I love the feel of clean sheets as I slip into bed. They feel so nice. It’s been years since I have used a top sheet. It just isn’t practical [...]

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A trip to the grocery store ended up with my husband running with the cart in the parking lot with our older two in it and me running with an arm around our slinged 2 year old. At first we got some pretty weird glances. However, once they processed that all five of us were [...]

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We had a homeschool field trip at a nature center yesterday. The program guide brought in several animals for the kids to get up close to. They even got to touch several. It was really a great program and the kids were just hilarious. Really, though, how can you not like a program which at [...]

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