Wednesday, January 23, 2008

A New Blog

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This year, 2008, I'm following my interests more and allowing myself to do what I love to do so very much...create pretty things and pho...
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Saturday, February 18, 2006

New Blog Address

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I have been Simulcast-Blogging between this blog (my first) and my newer (and prettier) blog at HomeschoolBlogger. To tell you the truth, I...
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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Day Thirteen: Declutter Your Home Series: The Home Manager

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In today's post by Mrs. Cat, well worth a read today (click here), she urges us to think of five blessings. Even when things are going...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Day Twelve: Declutter Your Home Series: Mrs. Cat's Story

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Today we have a personal story to read from Mrs. Cat (click here to read it). For those of you who are just now joining, we are declutteri...

Day Eleven: Declutter Your Home Series: Food Tips

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Today's post by Mrs.Cat is about saving money and time in the kitchen. Click here to view the post. If you'd like more advice on sa...
Monday, January 30, 2006

Day Ten: Declutter Your Home Series: The Kitchen

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I wrote this blog to you earlier, but it deleted before it posted. That is so frustrating! Here you go again, much later.... This is the...
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Saturday, January 28, 2006

Day Nine: Declutter Your Home Series: The Dining Room

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Today's focus is on decluttering the Dining Room. In our house, our dining room not only looks like a School Room, but it really is the...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

Day Eight: Decluttering Our Homes: The Master Bedroom

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Just a few days ago, I said I felt like I'd been taken off the hook because Mrs. Cat's* focus was on the Family Room and I (pat, pat...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Day Seven: Decluttering Your Home

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All I have for you today is Mrs. Cat's post on the challenge she presented (to not spend extra money for these 21 days). Click here to ...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Day Six Decluttering Our Home: The Office

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It is so easy for papers to get out of hand, isn't it? I have a computer-paper box just full of papers that I need to sort through. At...
Monday, January 23, 2006

DAY FIVE Decluttering Your Home: Family Room

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I feel like I've been let off the hook today. Our focus, in Mrs. Cat's posts, is the Family Room, and that is the one room that I k...
Saturday, January 21, 2006

Day FOUR Decluttering Challenge: The Bathroom

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Today's focus is on the bathroom. You can read today's advice in Mrs. Cat's entry, which we have been reading daily (click on t...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Mary Jane's Ideabook, Cookbook, Lifebook

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Well, it was finally time to remove the Christmas book that I had on the left column on this blog! I mean, how long after Christmas must yo...

DAY THREE Decluttering Challenge: Children's Bedrooms

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Honestly, I'd rather skip the focus of today -- the Children's Rooms! Tim and I were blessed greatly with one little one who cleans...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

DAY TWO Decluttering our Front Entrances

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Tim and I spent the afternoon in the back yard, decluttering it. We picked up lumber and stacked it, put branches in the burn pile, and Tim...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Decluttering Challenge -- DAY ONE

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Today is our first day to work on decluttering our houses! Are you as ready as I am? If you missed the Introduction to this topic, please sc...
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Monday, January 16, 2006

Who Is With Me? Declutter Your House in 21 Days

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I know we all have the excuse of the recent holidays, oh, and since today is Martin Luther King's Day, we also have the excuse of a curr...
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Sunday, January 01, 2006

Happy New Year

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Computer problems still plague us at home. I am praying daily for a little Divine Intervention! But on the bright side.... not having a co...
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Thursday, December 22, 2005

St. Lucia's Day - December 13th

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We are going to do a little something on St. Lucia's Day this year. My husband is 25% Swedish and our last name is Seaborg, so it is fi...

Merry Christmas

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We are having computer problems at home (I'm using my parent's computer tonight). I wanted to let you know I"m still around, t...
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

In the Spirit of Giving...

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In the spirit of giving this Christmas, consider going to Freecycle.org and finding a group in your area. Freecycle groups are people in yo...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

It's St. Nicholas Day!

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It's St. Nicholas Day! We are going to have a pizza party (any excuse for a pizza party is a good thing in our house!), bake cookies fro...
Sunday, December 04, 2005

St. Nicholas Day ~ December 6th

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Several years ago, when Tim and I were new parents, Tim and I needed to decide what Christmas traditions we wanted to pass on to our childre...
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Friday, December 02, 2005

Christmas All Season Long

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”Can you not see it is clear folly to crowd Christmas into twelve very full hours of one day and expect everyone to enjoy themselves? Christ...
Monday, November 28, 2005

A Little Extra Cash

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If you want to make a little extra cash , and if you enjoy blogging and don't mind copying and pasting your blog posts from Blogger to a...
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Sunday, November 27, 2005

How to Get More Readers to Your Blog

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Someone recently asked me how to get more readers to their blog. Here is what I suggested: 1. The best way to keep others visiting your bl...
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Friday, November 25, 2005

Turkey Carcass Soup

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Wait! You didn't toss out the turkey bones yet, did you ? If not, you have the chance to try out this Turkey Carcass Soup! Thanksgivi...
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Saturday, November 19, 2005

Creating Herbal Pillows

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In our house, there is always an herbal pillow in the freezer, one under each pillow, and an extra one in a kitchen drawer. Our children (ag...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005

A Few Favorite Books

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I just love reading book lists from others. I don’t like to buy a book unless I already know it is good, or at least was recommended from a ...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Our Days

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Hello, all! Thank you for being patient with me last week. We had Tim's sister, her husband and their four kids visiting for eight days....
Saturday, November 05, 2005

Propagating Mints

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A student in the landscaping class that I teach brought me aPennyroyal cutting this week and a cutting of Spearmint. As most gardeners do, h...
Friday, October 28, 2005

Contentment, from 2003

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I was searching for an article to send to an editor as a "clip" (example of my writing) today, and bumped into the following, so I...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

God's Vessels

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I was given a gift today.   Our garage and master bathroom, and even my bedroom have been flooded with Hurricane Katrina donations for the p...
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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Useful and Useless TidBits of Information

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A Laundry Tip: Folding and putting away laundry are the hardest part of the laundry cycle for me. So I've found that at the times when ...
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Friday, October 21, 2005

Wow! Look!

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I got an email today, saying I'd won in a category for the Juggling with Hamsters contest that was held at HomeschoolBlogger.com. Now, ...
Saturday, October 15, 2005

October 2005 Keeping the Home Newsletter is Up!

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Keeping the Home Newsletter October 2005 My latest newsletter was sent out today! CONTENTS: * My Latest Obsession: Pine Needle Basketry * Li...

As Heard in Our House

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"I think I finally realized how a lullaby works." ~ 10-year old son, after listening to me sing to our baby "Hows that?"...
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Monday, October 10, 2005

One of the Three Things: Waiting

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Waiting for a little brother or sister to emerge. Lori Seaborg 2005

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Sometimes a snooze makes the wait go by faster. Lori Seaborg 2005

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Ahhh, it's nice to have someone share life with you. Lori Seaborg 2005

One of the Three Things: My Attempt at Pine Needle Basketry

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A messy attempt, but yielding a strong and joy-causing result. I am definitely hooked on this free and useful art form! (at least until the ...
Sunday, October 09, 2005

Three Things

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I've been doing three things lately.  Just three, because when you're a mama of four, all the other "things" you do are en...
Tuesday, October 04, 2005

A Scrap of Lemon

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I had a scrap of a lemon this morning .... that sounds like a great beginning sentence for a novel, but I don't write those, so you'...
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Saturday, October 01, 2005

Goals in Baby Steps

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Thought I'd check in with you all and say hello.  I haven't forgotten about you; I've just needed a little time to step back and...
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Sunday, September 25, 2005

One Thought at a Time

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This morning I was attracted to the view out the French doors of our river and our back yard. It has been days since we’ve seen sunshine, du...
Friday, September 23, 2005

Today September 23, 2005

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Watching...the wind gusts blow tropical - hot and sticky - air across our trees and yard. Waiting...to see where Hurricane Rita will land. W...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Feeling Overwhelmed?

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Yesterday, I blogged about priorities and someone emailed, asking me to repost the following which I last posted in July : Over a year and a...
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Monday, September 19, 2005

Priorities (in Order of Priority)

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I regularly forget my order of priorities, but when I remember them again, my days run smoothly. I wish I would stay on the right track all...
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Friday, September 16, 2005

Housekeeping like Nature's Example

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Feeling discouraged about my house’s current messiness, I sighed this afternoon, and looked outside the window to the woods nearby. But inst...