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why blog?

On Saturday morning I was invited to be a part of a blogger breakfast. This was a treat on two accounts. First, Hungryman is not a fan of breakfast fares, so a breakfast date is rare and lovely. And, I got to see the faces and hear the voices behind blogs that I read.
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Goodbye Online Dating. Hello Online Play Groups.

After months of reading about sweet Julia and thinking, “Oh, that sounds just like Ava” or writing an Ava-antic and receiving a comment about how “Julia does the same thing,” the pint-sized virtual friends met.

My pal MckMama and her sister threw an all-out birthday bash inviting seasoned friends and [...]

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Raise your hand if you know what a feedreader is? If you’re hand is in the air, then you are most likely not related to me, and you are so above this post.
For the rest of you (including all my lovely and loyal relatives), I’m about to save you from this tedious scenerio:
Monday morning: “let’s [...]

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ctrl + enter

I just pushed send on an e-mail containing four devotionals for a local publication. This is the first paid creative writing job that I have had since I left work to stay at home with my new babe nearly four years ago. Even though it is a small project in the scope of writing for [...]

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Oh, you’re here. This is great. I was worried all night that people were going to get lost or that Blogger wouldn’t do its redirect thing or that I set this up wrong, but look you’re here! Yay! I, for one, am so happy that you are here.
Ahh, the badgers–they’ve taken over the blog. They’ve [...]

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What goes up must come down.
Thankfully, Ava’s body temperature adheres to the law of gravity.
And like her bright yellow, cheer-me-up balloon, Ava’s temperature has finally come down to rest a more comfortable level.
Thank you so much for your prayers and concerns. A quick survey of our abundance of laundry and bareness of cupboards will give [...]

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Apologies to all you wonderful, internet friends who tried to comment yesterday and were thwarted by some strange “comment moderation” apparatus.
Somehow I unknowingly jammed up the system. And believe me I was quite worked up about it last night, thinking that I must of hit some chicken noodle sore spot.
Thanks to a kind phone call [...]

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