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  • All from a two block radius around our house.  It is chilly. I want the heat on all the time… and blankies. I’m working super hard to get a rhythm down as we head into long cold nights and short rainy days. I’ve decided to try and get a bit of schedule together for myself, our meals, and Tuesday. We pretty much wing it… um daily. I don’t mind that so much, but I think with the time change it’s really having an effect on Tuesday. Plus I think she needs a bit more attention part of the day for…

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  • That’s what it’s been like in my kitchen for the past two weeks as I have gone mad with canning and putting away food for the winter. I don’t know exactly what came over me, well there was that one 40 pound box of organic apples at the Saturday market that I just couldn’t pass up for $20, I guess that was the start of it all. Sarah was talking about her applesauce and I figured, hey that sounds easy. I really haven’t gotten out the canning supplies since my pickle debacle of 2009 (oh, did I forget to mention…

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  • Tuesday has been sleeping through the night for almost a month—hooray! Tuesday takes up to 3 hours of back patting, rocking and singing to to fall asleep—boo! In my songs-I-know-the-words-to repertoire everything is feeling a bit old and I’m really digging deep for some new material. In some cases that material is actually being dug up from some dusty place in my brain from when I was a child. The last week or so it’s been non stop coming ’round the mountain. I made the mistake of interjecting a few “choooo choooo”s in between verses while I was dusting off…

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