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Motherwise Cracks

• Crafting at Camp

  2009 Jul 04

  It’s time for the annual family camping outing and that means that everyone expects something fun and different when it’s our turn. I mean “our turn” because there are six families that camp and we get one night of the week to prepare dinner for all 34 of us. The rest of the nights we [...]

• Human Bowling

  2009 Jul 01

  Well, despite my best wishing and hoping and thinking and praying (insert Dusty Springfield flashback here), it rained on the day of my son’s graduation party. Thank God I cleaned out the garage,  ordered that tent, and took my parents up on the offer to borrow theirs too. It keep the 200 people who arrive pretty [...]

• Que Sera, Sera

  2009 Jun 25

  Rain is in the forecast for Sunday. Yep, that would be the day that we have invited 200 people over to the house for a party. Now the debate about getting a tent seems moot. So I am getting ready for this party, baking something, and I just happen to mention to my husband that in [...]

• I’m Hearing Voices

  2009 Jun 19

  Last night, I drove over the curb going into a Subway for a late dinner. It was late and I was new surroundings and that is my excuse. After I drove over and felt the first “thump” of the car over the curb, I began to hear voices. Yes, the voices at first sounded like those [...]

• Signs of Growth?

  2009 Jun 08

  This is a sign. Yes, a sign that there might be some hope for my child at college next year. You see, this is a diagram of what he wanted his poster for a project to look like, and it actually contains signs of pre-planning the placement of the photos and text. As it was done [...]