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Monthly Archives: December 2013

It’s that wonderful time of year filled with cookies, ribbons, broken childhood ornaments, impossible to assemble toys, and just enough magic and laughter sprinkled throughout to give parents something to hang onto so that we gleefully repeat the whole process each year. While Tucker did break a Frosty the Snowman ornament that had my 1977 […]

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In IMing some party-on excellent friends earlier, Don suggested that I write about nothing, the way he often does. However, lacking his hilarity, beer, and ability to sit in a chair outside all day while drinking and making fun of the neighbors, I wasn’t sure about whether I could pull it off. I would like to […]

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Happy Wednesday, my peeps! Today’s Our Land series has been authored by my lovely friend Lizzi (aka The Considerer at Considerings). In spite of her British aversion to using the letter “z” in words such as “realize” and “organization,” there’s no denying her talent for brilliantly weaving words together. Lizzi has an amazing outlook on life, the […]

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The Story of MeeBee who Reminds Us of Thankful Somedays, it’s hard to be thankful, not glad. Those days it’s easy to be grumpy and sad. On days such as this, is when Meebee comes out to remind you to play and get rid of your pout. At first when we see him, we wish […]

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This holiday season, I’ll do a lot of things. I’ll play with my son in the freezing cold, watch The Charlie Brown Christmas show with him, and I’ll buy him something that he doesn’t need, anticipating the joy on his face when he sees that he has a present a few presents too many presents under our tree. […]

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There are certain toys that we don’t exactly welcome with glee and abandon this holiday season. Some fall in the category of obvious, like guns with darts that will most likely end up in my eye, messy craft crap that isn’t worth it, baby toys because Tucker’s delayed, and well, toys that he won’t, and […]

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