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  • off the grid

    —feebeeglee

    NaBloPoMo be hanged, I’m going offline til after Thanksgiving. I’ll be checking my mail if anyone needs me for anything, but only once at night. I really enjoyed less computer time over the weekend. I may be hermit-ing soon in terms of “social networks.” I get easily sucked in to Facebook, [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:54pm EST
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  • hey, i’m back

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    Took a break over the weekend. I forgot to post on Saturday and only remembered to post on Sunday at about 11:52. So. I have finished Trixie’s grey sweater. It has secret purple armscyes! She likes it very much. I realize how useless this is without pics. Today I made three loaves [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:22pm EST
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  • decisions!

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 5
    I’m doing Christmas pre-shopping, deciding what I want to get for each child. It’s so difficult! Trixie will be getting a new toy barn, Gloria a very paticular toy cat with a handknitted sweater (by both myself and Faith), Abby a series of books called Dear Dumb Diary aaaaand… that’s [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:14am EST
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  • bzuh?

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    Today was very long, and busy, but I can’t really remember it. We enjoyed the lovely weather outside, and drew pictures, and baked brownies, and did many things. I washed dishes at least three times, because we ate three meals and we have no dishwasher. I did laundry. I changed [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:40am EST
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  • know your market

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 6
    Some LDS missionary boys came to visit today. They’re so cute. It kills me that they’re “Elder” when I’m twice their age. One was Elder Bill and the other was Elder L-something-Venezuelan. They were pleased with my large brood and the fact that we homeschool, and no doubt disappointed that [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:43pm EST
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  • der?

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    Just a dull litany for tonight. I baked bread today and made a huge pot o chili. I slept very poorly due to 1. Trixie, who woke about every hour for unknown reasons; 2. Gilbert awakening once and needing my assistance; and 3. Gloria waking twice. I don’t think I [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:24am EST
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  • we sure eat a lot of wheat

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 6
    Today we baked cookies. Many, many cookies. We’re trying to get away from buying baked goods around here. So far we’ve eliminated storebought bread and my nemesis, Pop Tarts. Up next is cookies, then crackery snacks. Making 100 cookies with two spoons to scoop up and drop them is a [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:33pm EST
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  • geekery

    —feebeeglee

    I’m in Waters of Mars mode. All thought will cease until I have seen it. Posted in me [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:49am EST
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  • a good day

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 2
    Today was so nice. Our dear friends came for a visit and seeing the smiles on their faces as they ran up our sidewalk was fantastic. The kids all played and talked and Renee and I got to talk. Renee is one of those friends who really hears what you [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:38pm EST
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  • go with the flow in more ways than one

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    The plumbing issue continues to plague us; we have misaligned pipes. With a little lip of pipe for things to catch upon it’s no wonder we keep having trouble. I think we’re going to see about buying our own power auger. Sean had a second interview today at the same joint [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:31pm EST
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  • no time

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    This post-every-day-for-a-month thing has made certain that I don’t have time to blog. Just typing that sentence I heard Trixie and Gloria scream at each other and had to go sort it out. Twice. I have to choose each night between solitude and sleep. Even if I do choose solitude I’m [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:29pm EST
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  • gosh

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 5
    Today the bathroom pipe was clogged in such a way that the entire system was backed up: sink, tub, and most importantly, toilet. We have one bathroom for eight people,  so it’s more than just an inconvenience. Sean fixed it. Sean also had a job interview today, wow! I am simultaneously [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:07pm EST
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  • Do they dare?

    —feebeeglee

    Today I rediscovered (as in, found it behind a bookcase) one of my favorite books as a child, The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree. I loved it as a kid and remembered lingering over the illustrations. My kids love it just as much as I did, and Gloria [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:42pm EST
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  • OMG WATERS OF MARS

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    DW4169, originally uploaded by feebeeglee. The suit, the orange suit! SAME ONE. AAAAA THIS REGENERATION IS GOING TO KILL ME DEAD. (click for embiggened angst and great, really great hair) Posted in pictures [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:07am EST
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  • massive yarn sale omg

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 2
    Michaels has a CRAZY yarn sale this week. Among other yarns, Patons Classic Wool is $2.50 a skein. Holy sheep, Batman, I am so there. Lion Fisherman’s is supercheep as well. Hot diggity! This anemic post is brought short to you by Insistent Gleeson Children numbers Five and Six. Posted in [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:33am EST
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  • Where is Club Penguin?

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    My children adore Club Penguin. Our home is festooned with drawings therefrom, and one of Gloria’s first words was “puffle.” Today we deduced where Club Penguin was likely to be. It has trees and other plants, so it can’t be part of Antarctica proper. According to Wikipedia, the southern tree line [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:40pm EST
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  • There Are Cats In This Book

    —feebeeglee

    That’s the name of Bede’s favorite book. Have I discussed this before? I don’t think I have. It’s a REALLY GREAT BOOK. Did you like The Monster at the End of This Book? Then you’ll love this book. Bede acts it out constantly, redraws it with other beasts and beings [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:53pm EST
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  • i can’t heeeeaaar you

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 2
    Today was too short! I didn’t manage to get many of the things I planned to do, done. I don’t quite know what took the time away. I think it’s the darkness coming so much earlier. I’m all boiling with thoughts on adolescence and social development. Especially in an online [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:39pm EST
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  • Hi, how are you doing today?

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 2
    Today I left the house with no children! I’ll just let that sink in a bit. My mother and I went to the fabric store, the drugstore and the thrift store. We emerged with fabric for Christmas presents, some toys, and winter pants for Gilbert and Bede. I was universally assumed to [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:53pm EST
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  • Challah!

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 4
    We baked challah today. It’s unbelievably good. Bede approves. Posted in food, kids, pictures [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:05pm EST
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  • Vaccination plans

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 2
    No, not pig flu. Very unlikely to get that one. The other lot. We selectively vaccinate on a very delayed schedule. We don’t start til seven at the earliest, for one thing, and we don’t get any that the kids could just as easily decide to get for themselves later. That [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:37pm EST
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  • Halloween costumes

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 2
    IMG_1349, originally uploaded by feebeeglee. Trixie is a fairy, Abby is a bad fairy, Faith is a cave girl, and Gilbert is SuperBoy. Gloria and Bede didn’t ToT because Bede didn’t want to and instead they handed out candy with me. Posted in pictures [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 4:01pm EST
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  • Gloria tells us how it is

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 4
    Gloria was awake very late and was chatty due to falling asleep for an hour at 9PM. I videoed her. Here you go. http://www.flickr.com/photos/feebeeglee/4052451590/ Posted in clicky, kids, pictures [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:08pm EDT
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  • representing my day

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 9
    Gloria gives it her all. Bede threw scores of leaves and called them flying birds. Gilbert steps up on the logs. Best play structures ever. Gloria hopes for a pull. She sat there optimistically for a good five minutes… …and Faith obliged her. Abby and Faith also looked for a dirt fairy, in [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 1:51am EDT
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  • A story in four parts, by Bede Gleeson

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 2
    Bede made this little vignette today while we were carving pumpkins. It stars Buster and Babs Bunny, of Tiny Toons. Buster and Babs Bunny, in Halloween costumes(?) They see pumpkins, wow! They go to the pumpkin patch (they seem to have left their costumes.) And then a pumpkin explodes! Ewwww! -FIN- Posted in autism, pictures [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:42am EDT
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  • NaBloPoMo is November

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 8
    I did it one year and really liked it. I’m doin it again. I’m tired of fast food Facebook. It tastes great, satisfies momentarily, and leaves you wanting more vapid, empty knowledge. I’ll still be checking it, but I’m going to try to blog more meaningfully here instead of just [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 12:55pm EDT
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  • we got a scanner

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 3
    Abby Art 2, originally uploaded by feebeeglee. Abby’s cover for her book, “5TH SEASON QUEST” Click to embiggen. Posted in pictures [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 11:49pm EDT
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  • domesticity

    —feebeeglee

    In the last 24 hours I have finished knitting a sweater for Beatrice and started one for Gilbert, hung many loads of laundry in the lovely St. Martin’s summer we’re having, homeskooled the Monkeys Six, and baked two loaves of bread. Golly I love this time of year. Posted in kids, knitting, [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 9:51pm EDT
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  • Bede’s speech: October edition

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 9
    Y’all liked these last time, so, here’s a few more. Upon seeing one plate of regular and one of silver dollar: Uppercase pancakes and lowercase pancakes! Watching me wind yarn with a ball winder: It’s zoetrope on your yarn! Climbing a wrought-iron spiral staircase: Bede! Climbing on your DNA! After writing his name in the style and [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 11:38pm EDT
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  • Hello, hello

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 10
    I was wondering, if you don’t mind, could you leave a comment? No content necessary – a simple “yo” will suffice. I’m curious how many people read me from a feed reader, or from the Livejournal feed. I know it’s a pain in the neck. Pretty please? No pressure to [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 11:51pm EDT
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  • Faith’s First Raglan

    —feebeeglee

    Yarn percentages notes. Faith wants a sweater with a pink body and purple sleeves. I’ve thought it out, and it would work to knit pink in the round to the armsceye, then separate front/back, knit it flat up through the raglan decreases, bind off, then pick up the sleeves in [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
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  • locked up

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 3
    We have many more locks and gates in this house than most houses do. We’ve taken some down recently, but in the last year this would have been the house you’d see when you visited. On our front door we have two locks. One is a sliding deadbolt set six feet [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 1:50am EDT
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  • Shoe sizes

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 6
    Gloria: 8 Trixie: 12 Gil: 13 Bede: 2 Abby: 7 Faith: 8 Posted in kids [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 7:22pm EDT
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  • worn out

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 4
    IMG_1155, originally uploaded by feebeeglee. Bede, in Scrat acorn hat and enormous brown trousers, curled up with his remote to the DVD player. Posted in pictures [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 2:14am EDT
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  • We came, we saw, we left without incident

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 10
    What’s the Latin for that one? Bede was pumped about the movie. Before we left, I wrote our telephone number on his back in Sharpie, just in case we got separated. You never know, and he can’t communicate well enough to convey that sort of information. We pulled into the mall [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 7:05pm EDT
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  • ICE AGE 3 ASDFJKL!!

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 9
    Scene: Gleeson home, dining room. Me: Hey Bede! Bede: (skipping by) Hmmhnnnhmm! Me: Tomorrow, you wanna see Ice Age 3? (Bede stops short) Me: In the movie theater? (Bede smiles widely) Me: With Manny? Bede: And Ellie? Me: Uh-huh. Bede: And Crashandeddie? Me: Yep. Bede: And (hops in place) SCRAT!! Me: Yeah! Bede: OKAYSURE! I GETCHOO ICE AGE 3 DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS IN [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 12:12am EDT
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  • Sky Walker competency trial

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    On January 29th, Sky Walker was arrested for assaulting his mother. She died about a week later, and he was charged with her murder. Sky is 18 years old and profoundly autistic. His competency trial was this week. The whole thing is heartbreaking. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/09/kent_state_university_professo_1.html Where is Sky’s dad? Posted in autism, clicky [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 11:05pm EDT
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  • The Other Blog

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    I keep a homeschool blog over at gleeschool.wordpress.com. It’s just notes for recordkeeping, but I thought someone might like it, so, there you are. Posted in unschooling [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 6:36pm EDT
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  • Bede’s speech

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 3
    Aside from occasional appropriate use of I and my, Bede’s pronouns are always reversed, and his language is pretty weird. He’s internally consistent though, and he tries so very hard to communicate with us – as we try to communicate with him. Here are some recent dispatches. Requesting grape jam on [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 12:15am EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • Glenn Reynolds, autism expert

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    I was reading the October issue of Popular Mechanics (theme: disaster preparedness! survival! which really turns my geek crank!) and I ran across this, by Glenn Reynolds – page 48. Here’s a simple truth: It’s better to bend than to break, and it’s best to be prepared for the worst. This [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:18am EDT
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  • Sharing is Caring day 4

    —feebeeglee

    Sharing is Caring: for one week, recommend / share Day 1: a song Day 2: a picture Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic Day 4: a site Day 5: a youtube clip Day 6: a quote Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy Today is a Site. I’m going to send you all to The Baldwin Project. It’s a fantastic collection of [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 7:14pm EDT
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  • Sharing is Caring day 3

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 1
    Sharing is Caring: for one week, recommend / share Day 1: a song Day 2: a picture Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic Day 4: a site Day 5: a youtube clip Day 6: a quote Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy Today I’m doing all three, lucky reader! Book: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. I sat back just now and [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 1:08am EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • PBS shirts

    —feebeeglee

    Bede draws the PBS logo a lot. He changes it around and makes a whole family of P-heads. He gives the P-head a different look, like a PIXAR lamp P-head, or a Scrat P-head. I think he would really, really like this shirt. They don’t come in kid sizes, but [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 12:56am EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • Sharing is Caring Meme: Day 2

    —feebeeglee

    Sharing is Caring: for one week, recommend / share Day 1: a song Day 2: a picture Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic Day 4: a site Day 5: a youtube clip Day 6: a quote Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy Gotta be Bwavo Bunny. Posted in me, pictures [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 7:41pm EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • My contribution to health care reform

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 4
    I wish that the primary caregiver of children who qualify for Medicaid could get Medicaid too. Maybe you could opt for either subsidized daycare or subsidized health insurance. I could get free daycare for all my kids, but I don’t, because I’m not employed outside the home. Since I’m not [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • Sharing is Caring Meme Day 1

    —feebeeglee

    via earlgreytea68 Sharing is Caring: for one week, recommend / share Day 1: a song Day 2: a picture Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic Day 4: a site Day 5: a youtube clip Day 6: a quote Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy The Decemberists: The Engine Driver has been haunting me lately. It’s such an autumnal song. I hope you enjoy [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 1:25am EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • photos uploaded

    —feebeeglee

    I uploaded some pix from the last few weeks to flickr, including Bede and his Acorn Hat, playing in the backyard, drawing and reading in the dining room and Sean’s recent haircut. And even a few of me! Posted in kids, knitting, me, pictures [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 11:46pm EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • cleanup and age differences

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 8
    Faith and Abby are old enough now that saying “Everything that’s still on the floor in there in 15 minutes is going in the trash” no longer seems cruel. Before, like last year, saying that elicited much stress and made me feel like the biggest jerk in the world. Now, [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 5:38pm EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • Gloria the :-D

    —feebeeglee

    Number of comments: 4
    IMG_0618, originally uploaded by feebeeglee. This face comes to me, saying “Hewwo! Tisses, Mama!” and then holds my face while she kisses me. She’s a delightful child. Posted in pictures [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 9:11pm EDT
    by feebeeglee

  • nudgeschooling

    —feebeeglee

    The school year is upon me! We don’t stop schoolin’ in the summer. As unschoolers we neither stop nor start the whole “formal learning” gig, but keep about the same non-pace throughout the year. However, when the conventional schools are in session, I try to get a little more nudge-schooly [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 10:20pm EDT
    by feebeeglee

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