Mama Says

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All week the children kept telling me about their onions that had yellow flowers. We do have some stragglers of green onions still in the garden, and they keep bringing me fistfuls of yellow weeds, so I thought that’s what they were talking about.
Nope. My daffodils (planted last year and forgotten) are blooming! [...]

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Today I take Mr X to the school for his speech evaluation.  He talks in full sentences all the time, but is so terribly hard to understand.  They have to evaluate him before they can tell us what services he’ll qualify for.  Next month is the last one for in-home ECI.
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She is driving me [...]

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Saw the doctor Medicaid referred us to.  She’s not a doctor, but a CNP.  She did spend a good bit of time with me, didn’t get weirded out by the vaccine thing, and carefully explained all the options, her opinion, and let me make a choice (one vax this time, containing DTaP and polio.)  She’s [...]

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I need your help.  Last year I got a paragraph one of my mommy friends makes her children write when they are naughty.  It was kind of long, an essay on “I will respect my parents” “I will love others as Jesus loves them”, that sort of thing.  But I lost the link and I [...]

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I’ve been reading a lot of foodie books (Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver) and they both emphasize eating locally and eating in season.  I’ve virtuosly passed up on cherries from Chile and thought twice about buying corn on the cob in January (really, what’s the point of that?)  But I really experienced what they are talking [...]

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Our family receives WIC, and they’ve decided that Baby A gets 95 jars of baby food per month.  It’s been years since I’ve fed any of my babies from a jar, but we’ll give it a valiant effort.  She eats about 3-4 bites of meat and as much fruit as we’ll give her.
We’ve used up [...]

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So I never know what to name these Quick Takes posts.  I’m going to number them according to week this year.  Unless I forget.
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Have you seen this article on employment discrimination in the health care bill?  That’s right, it’s going to hurt single income, working poor, and large families.
For a large family perspective, my family [...]

If your son doesn’t like spelling and really struggles with a particular word, make that word the password for the computer.  He’ll memorize it in no time flat.

I like to make a fruit platter for Christmas morning.  Easy and make ahead.  And we always have star fruit (carambola).  So festive!

We bought our tires at PepBoys, [...]

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I went to the store and threw whatever I wanted into the carts.   It was like being a kid in the candy store.  Hmmm, haven’t had wild rice in so long!  In it goes.
Mr R saw it on the shelf and ran to alert me.  “Rats got into the rice and pooped!” he said.  I [...]

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My husband got a job!  It pays nearly what he was making before, but he is scheduled for 40 hours of overtime.  He’s hourly, so that means time and a half!  Everyone who has been praying for us, thank you so much!  God has answered your prayers with abundance.
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The downside?  We were planning to visit [...]