Valerie on October 30th, 2006

Luke and his brother took some of the kids down to watch the OSU marching band practice before the game, and to sell Luke’s buckeye necklaces he’d made. There were many people about selling tickets to the game, but Luke didn’t pay them any mind until one guy who was buying necklaces offered him two [...]

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Valerie on October 27th, 2006

Mel at Our Blessed Arrows has posted her Frugal Fridays tip about getting rid of your TV. This is a timely post for me, as I have already been thinking hard about this.There was a time in our family life that we spent a significant time without a TV, then one season we found ourselves [...]

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Valerie on October 26th, 2006

We were watching Wheel of Fortune tonight, and the one guy solves the puzzle.A shakes her head and says rather disgustedly,”I didn’t solve it. But if the puzzle would have been ‘CANNED PEAS’, I definitely would have gotten it.”

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Valerie on October 24th, 2006

My brother, Daniel, is 27 today. Whew, I feel old. I hear, after the fact, that my parents threw him a rousing good party, complete with a cake blazing with 27 candles, and birthday song in 2 part harmony, all before my dad left for work. And they didn’t even invite us. Probably afraid we’d [...]

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Valerie on October 22nd, 2006

Luke has a profitable business going in the fall, making buckeye necklaces. He’s so creative, and enterprising. He will go down to the Minnesota game this coming weekend to try and sell some he’s made. He already bought a #10 jersey and new running shoes, so hopefully all of the necklaces will sell.Luke’s brother is [...]

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Valerie on October 13th, 2006

I have started reading a book, Witness, by Whittaker Chambers, and in it he talks about how at times he enjoyed and preferred being alone. “If I had really wanted the fellowship that lay on the other side of the wall, I would have battered my way or scrambled over. The real wall was my [...]

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Valerie on October 10th, 2006

Check out Kari’s idea of 30 Days of Thanksgiving!

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Valerie on October 5th, 2006

Yep. That describes what the next few months will be like, watching LOST. Luke and I were enjoying watching Season 2 on DVD, having the great non-antenna picture, and seeing all the extra stuff. Talk about delayed gratification: now we are back to seeing only 43 minutes of the plot at a time, and are [...]

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