When I was a child, my parents hired babysitters to stay with us quite regularly. Often it was only for an evening or maybe a weekend. But sometimes they’d leave for a week or longer. (For some reason, my parents had a need to get away from us. A mystery, I know.) A number of […]
♥ Ha ha! I just had to try that after seeing it in Ragamuffen’s journal and then reading her instructions. Fun! I don’t know how to make ANYTHING like that. Well, I guess now I know how to make ♥ . But nothing else. Where does one go to find the list of “super-cool symbols
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He walked into the room where she sat reading in a comfy chair. Collapsing on the bed, he lay, eyes closed, and in a painful whisper, he spoke. “I’m dying, Jeanne. I’m dying.” “Everyone’s dying,” she reminded him, without the slightest hint of sympathy in her matter-of-fact tone. She watched him as he lay motionless,
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I was just taking care of mundane business. We have lots of forms to fill out before Luke goes off to college, and one of them involves his health history, insurance, etc. I had to verify that our policy would fully cover him once he goes out of state. If not, Wheaton requires that he
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Responses to Ragamuffen, the queen of questions: 1. What is your favorite thing about you? Probably my favorite thing about me is that I know it’s not about me. 2. If you could live anywhere in the world but not travel from there, where would you want to be? Prince Edward Island 3. All the
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We live in a quiet neighborhood. If houses could speak, most of the ones around here would detail long histories of their current occupants. But the house across the street? It’s a rental. Years ago the man who owns it put on a new roof, painted inside and out, basically spruced the place up. “Oh