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Summer vacation has arrived.  Sadly, summer weather has not.  The squabbling had reached that level where I was going to either lose my mind, or put their snow suits on them in May and send them outside to play in the gale force northerly wind.

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I am a gift card-girl.  I like gift cards.  I give gift cards.  I don’t care if you’re a newborn baby or celebrating your 100th birthday.  Gift cards for everyone!  I don’t know what you already own.  I don’t know if your tastes have changed.  Honestly, if I start shopping for you… I really just end up shopping for myself.  So here’s a $25 gift card.  Go knock yourself out.

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To my devoted readership (whom – I think – is really just myself), I apologize for my lengthy blogging hiatus.  I was heads-down, deep within a project for a client.

Noooo… while I really was working on a client job, that’s not why I didn’t write a blog post.  The truth is, my husband was freakishly sick for 12 (looooooooooong, grueling) days.

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When I was a kid  I used a refrigerator box to slide down a hill. This was that fabulously-fun hill…

I remember holding on for dear life as friends pushed me over the edge, and sliding off of the box…coming home with stains even Clorox couldn’t remove. I should clarify. Grass stains.

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No, no. I’m not yelling that at you in an accusatory tone of voice. Why are you so sensitive? Something you need to confess???

What I really mean is there are many different kinds of parents:
* The Crafty Parent who will set up stations of chaos fun with glue, glitter, markers, paint, egg cartons, and the like and make a wonderful, sparkly Eiffel Tower that lights up when you clap your hands three times

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