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I am a hoarder    collector    saver reuser of items.  I was doing it long before it became fashionably “green” to reduce, reuse, recycle.  I blame credit my mother and grandmother who never lost some of the depression era frugality (there was always a can of used cooking grease/lard in the house).

I “acquire” things (sometimes in quantity) and hold onto them (sometimes for too long) because you never know when you might need them.

Read more on The Hoarder & The Homeschooler: a marraige made in heaven!…

I’m not a big television person.  Give me the news and Jeopardy and I’m pretty much all set.
My husband, on the other hand, is totally, completely and utterly addicted to it.  He can’t even surf the net and listen to webcasts with his earpiece unless he also has the TV on (typically loud enough for me to hear 2 rooms away).

Read more on It’s not the Programming — It’s the Commercials!…

Category: Parenting  Tags: All riled up!, Say whaaat???  

From the time I learned what toxic chemicals were toiling to our climate, I immediately started using up my old commercial products and looking for a way to go green.  For anyone who lives alone and isn’t a clean-freak, this is not a fast process, but I’m trying.  As one product is used up, it is replaced with a non-toxic product like white vinegar and baking soda.  To see just what I had, I took all my cleaning products and placed them in boxes on a shelf in my utility room.  This was also to keep them out of reach of a curious toddler.

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We’re homeschoolers.   We don’t really have a last day of school or a back to school.  Learning is a round the clock, 7 day/week experience for us.  Except, of course, those days when being a couch potato is infinitely more productive than trying to get in a lesson.  There’s no back to school shopping, or first day of school jitters, or new teachers.   But today, I have the “back to school” blues.

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You’d think, for a mom, I’d be doing laundry or loading the dishwasher… or something other than blogging. Well, since you are here I feel I should be upfront with you; in essence warn you about expectations. As I say to my husband, expect nothing and you will grin ear to ear when I pull through with a newly-Swiffered kitchen floor or a lemon-scented toilet bowl.

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Category: Pregnancy, The 9 Months  Tags: I hate cleaning