Posted by Editormum on 24 November 2012 in
Just Another Single Mother |
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It seemed a simple task, really. Spend $50 or thereabouts at a couple of local small businesses on November 24 — Small Business Saturday. I’d won a $25 American Express gift card for the purpose from FedEx, and I’d registered my own American Express card as well, so that I could receive the $25 reward […]
Tags: books, errands, Family Life, shopping, Small Business Saturday, True Stories, wine
Posted by Editormum on 3 September 2009 in Uncategorized |
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I am on a crusade to de-clutter my house, which means that there is a lot of sorting and evaluating going on in my life right now. One of the biggest sources of clutter in my life is books. I love books. Almost any genre, any subject, any age. I like to hold them, touch […]
Tags: books, Christianity, cleaning, clutter, decluttering, encouragement, Hansi, Hilter Youth, Jesus, LibraryThing, Maria Anne Hirschmann, Nazi, Philosophy, Religion, Spire Comics, True Stories, works salvation
Posted by Editormum on 26 June 2008 in Uncategorized |
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In case y’all didn’t get it from my last post, I think Dad is the most wonderful person on the planet. He and Mom are a spectacular couple, and even Mom says that the success of their marriage is due, largely, to Dad’s fabulousness. But the gift he gave me for my birthday just PROVES […]
Tags: birthdays, books, Family Life, first-editions, gifts, True Stories
Posted by Editormum on 7 November 2007 in
Books |
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I have a lot of books. I’ve been reading since I was four, and collecting — no, amassing is more accurate — books since I was old enough to have pocket money. Last estimate was about 24,000 books in my house. Most of them were boxed up in the attic until recently, because my house […]
Tags: books
Posted by Editormum on 18 April 2007 in
Just Another Single Mother |
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…and hit a wall? I bought a book the other day at the used book store. It was a great book, until I got to the last few chapters. Suddenly, every other spread (the two pages facing each other in a book or magazine are called a spread) was blank. So I’m reading along and […]
Tags: books, character
Posted by Editormum on 14 August 2006 in
Books,
Just Another Single Mother |
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I’m a sneaky mom. My kids like to listen to books on CD while drifting off to sleep. Most nights, I let them; although some nights I insist on music. After we’d listened to all six Harry Potter books for the umpteenth time, and gone twice through our incomplete collection of Redwall books (there are […]
Tags: books, child-rearing, children, Family Life, favourite books, literature
Posted by Editormum on 26 May 2006 in
Just Another Single Mother |
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The kids leave tonight to spend the night with their dad before heading off tomorrow afternoon for their ten-day Washington visit. You would have thought that he could have let them spend this last night with me (especially since I am taking time out of my Memorial Day weekend to take them to the airport), […]
Tags: books, children, divorce, Family Life, favourite books, single parenting
Posted by Editormum on 9 April 2006 in
Just Another Single Mother |
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… of mice and men gang aft agley. And boy, did my weekend gang agley! I had to stay late at work, so the grocery shopping took until 7:30, which meant that by the time we got supper and bathed the kidlets, there was no time for laundry or games or a story. After I […]
Tags: books, chores, church, errands, favourite books, seder, single parenting
Posted by Editormum on 23 October 2004 in
Just Another Single Mother |
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This is going to be a running list of what my kids and I do today. I just thought it might interest everyone to see how a single mom spends her Saturday with her kids. 7:45 a.m. The kids have been “snuggling” in bed with me since 6:30, listening to the rain outside and telling […]
Tags: books, child-rearing, children, chores, errands, favourite books, movies, single parenting
Posted by Editormum on 27 June 2004 in
Just Another Single Mother |
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Actually, the morning started off quite well. I didn’t sleep entirely comfortably, owing to the sunburn on my shoulders and halfway down the back of my arms, which made it necessary for me to sleep on my stomach; still, I did manage to get about six hours of uninterrupted sleep after soaking for an hour […]
Tags: birthday, books, challenges, choir, chores, church, errands, food, gifts, home maintenance, Jim Hyter, sunburn