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Year In Review meme for 2018
Remember these? I copied and pasted the questions from my 2005 LiveJournal entry! They're skewed a little young for me now, I think, but still kinda fun.
1. What did you do in 2018 that you'd never done before?
Take my kids on vacation all by myself (not to visit relatives). It was just an overnight trip.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, ( Read more... ) -
Relinquish
I'm willing to let go of ( Read more... ) -
Parenting on a Sunday
Today, Sunday, I ( Read more... ) -
Inch by inch
Today I ( Read more... ) -
Another day.
Monday:
Walked the dog.
Spent three hours on a huge grocery shopping trip.
Served pasta.
Ran dishwasher.
Tuesday:
Attended church ladies' meeting.
Booked someone to deep clean the house.
Set dates for crochet meetings.
Took kids to tae kwon do.
Cycled laundry, unloaded dishwasher.
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A day.
Good: I attended my women's church group meeting and made an artsycraft (painted mug ( Read more... ) -
Need vs. want
Been reading a whole lot of Facebook lately. It's become something of a guilty pleasure, like junk food. I've noticed people "need" a lot of things... for example, a weekend trip to someplace warm and scenic to counter the gloom of damp and dim autumn; a particular hair color and style; a particular item of clothing. The word "need" is tossed ( Read more... ) -
Same as it ever was
Water flowing underground ( Read more... ) -
Artichoke
DeCa had artichokes, and I was curious, so tonight I cooked one for the first time. It tasted okay. It probably would have been better if I hadn't steamed the heck out of it - Joy of Cooking told me to steam for 45 minutes, and probably 20 would have done the job.
What a bizarre food. We go through a lot of work to eat only about 20% of the food ( Read more... ) -
Ten values
From M.C.A. Hogarth:
Let's play a game! You have ten words to encapsulate the values that are of primary and personal importance to you. They should be things that you wake up every day thinking 'these are the things I'm going to try to manifest through my words, acts, and thoughts.'
I chose:- kindness - start from a position of love, make ( Read more... )