Lady in a Small Town

Okay, the fun has worn out.  I am officially lonely.  When will they come back?

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Mom and Dad have gone off and left me alone. I decided while they were gone I would take over Mom’s blog, since I heard her say she needed to blog every day this month.
I have been taking advantage of this opportunity to run pell-mell all over the house and get […]

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Today was the first day it has snowed in Hometown. It was a very slow scary drive. As I rounded one corner I could see ahead of me a small black car was spinning around and around on the road. It came to settle in a small ditch between the road and […]

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Last night, about 45 minutes after MIL left the phone rang.  It was MIL’s brother looking for her.  I told him she left and probably stopped at the store on her way home.  When I hung up my mom called.  MIL’s mother (age 98) had called my parents’ house looking for MIL, because she has […]

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Blue #1: The boxes of macaroni and cheese we bought for the Drop In Center.
Blue #2: My husband’s eyes.
Blue #3: The walls in my nearly finished upstairs bathroom.
Sunday school, church, harvest luncheon, scrapbooking with my MIL. It has been a long day.
Random fact:  The first week we owned our house (in 2002) my father […]

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Junkmail cracks me up. Today’s title is my new favorite email subject.

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I hung out with the youth from my church this afternoon. We were supposed to help at the food pantry, but they didn’t need us.
They have 25% more need this year, in 10 months, than in all 12 months of 2006. Tomorrow our church is collecting food for “harvest Sunday”, so I am […]

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I am so glad it is finally Friday. This was a very long week. My class has been kind of off the wall. We’ve had fluctuating attendance and disruptions. We are working our way slowly through the book, focusing on the story, retelling, spelling, and grammar. I am skipping several […]

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Every year my school has a Thanksgiving dinner for the parents.  The kitchen staff and a lot of parent volunteers work really hard to make it great.  There are two seatings and since I had a class during the second seating I ate with the big kids.
Thursday nights I have pottery.   I am not that […]

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My mother-in-law and I are making a scrapbook for her mom. Gramma P will be 99 on Christmas Eve, so for the first day of her 100th year we will give her a book for her life on Christmas.
MIL and I aren’t much alike and I am uncomfortable around her. This project has […]

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