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http://simplystacie.net/simply-reading-kindle-giveaway/ to enter.  The contest ends September 30th.

We don't have regular TV transmisson right now and haven't  for several months.
I like it.  I don't seem to have enough time in my day now to accomplish all I want to.
I don't know how I did when I watched TV a couple of hours a day.
For my entertainment I have 4 kids, though the 20 month old is the most entertaining.
I think she is the most adorable baby ever.   We watch Netflix for entertainment.
But a lot of the time I miss portions of the movie because she stands in the middle of the
room and dances or climbs upon the two sub-woofers that we don't currently use and perches
there talking to her audience-us.  I could just watch her for my entertainment and it would satisfy
the cute, adorable quotient we all need in our lives.  Like when you just have to have that
puppy that is oh, so cute, until it chews your favorite shoes.
So I hope my youngest daughter stays in this cute, adorable, I could sit and watch her for hours
phase, much, much longer.  Because my other children are far passed that now.  Teenagers,  need I say

more.                                                                                        

I have a new giveaway, hurry it ends Sept. 5th -here is the link http://www.thefashionablegal.com/08/2010/dooney-bourke-tote-giveaway.

Right now, my giveaways are links to other blogs I enjoy.  Have fun!!

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Not my canned food, a representation.

Tomorrow is the first day of school for two of my children; Maranda 15, Selena 13; Sophomore in high school, and
eighth grade respectively.  We have spent a few hundred $$$ getting all three of my four children outfitted for
school.  That is just in clothes.  Schools supplies came in under $10.  But that is just to get them through the first week.  School fees for the charter school my daughters attend are over $500. My son Joseph begins on Wednesday.  He is 10, almost 11 years and in the fifth grade.  His school fees, very little.  His clothes- about $175.
I will have my baby Megan at home she is 21 months old.

We have been busy the past week, not only with the above, but we are doing a few fix-ups on our house.  We have a contractor coming in to help with most of it.  But we are doing some too.   We have redone all of our 1909 house ourselves, to this point.  We have lived here since the summer of 2006.  Our contractor will do some surface texture repair of the ceilings, trim work outside, and in one bedroom, and painting the upper third of the house where the wood shingles are.  The rest of the exterior is brick.   I painted our upstairs bath yesterday.  This is not a great accomplishment for me, except I did it late in the day, when it was 99 degrees outside.  We don't have central air.  I had been up since 5am.

I decided it was  my turn to volunteer at our food co-op we participate in.  I took my to oldest girls, we enjoyed
doing our part.  We especially liked getting some extra produce for helping.  Ummmm.

I have a blendtec blender and it is wonderful having inexpensive produce to make delicious foods with in
my new kitchen machine.
Our peaches, apples, pears, and walnuts are almost ready to harvest.   I plan on doing some canning this year.
I froze some Olathe Colorado corn, and made apricot freezer jam.   I feel so good when I create something,
especially when it turns out well.

Grosgrain: Shabby Apple Boysenberry Pie Apron Guest Giveaway

Grosgrain: Shabby Apple Boysenberry Pie Apron Guest Giveaway

A new way to link to many blog giveaways

I have just begun entering some blog giveaways. I found a link that anyone can put on their blog to link many
other blogs. I am going to try Linky Tools to see how it works for links to blogs with giveaways. That's the link. Let's try it.

I must confess...

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What am I going to tell, the suspense may kill you?  I won't make you wait, long.  I just discovered that I must be a BOOK-aholic.  Here's how I came to this conclusion.  My husband just purchased, "Driven" An Autobiography by the late Larry H. Miller.  It was his father's day present, though a month late.  I promised I would't read it until he was finished.  But when he is asleep at night I have been reading it.  Yesterday he was outside and I couldn't help myself.  I needed something to read and it was there on the dining room table.  It was just saying read me, he's not here.  So I picked up the book and got nice and comfortable on my bed.  But I didn't get very far because my 21 month old daughter needed me. I left the book open,  face down on the bed.  He came in before I could put it back.  "Quit reading my book", he yelled.  Boy, is he touchy.  "You promised"!

he continued.  He's right, I did promise.   So here I am writing about wanting to read my husbands book, instead of reading it.  He's outside, doing yard work.  The book is sitting on his desk.  The baby is asleep, and my other three children are at their dad's house this weekend.  It looks like he has purposefully placed his phone and MP3 player on top of it, he knows he can't trust a bookaholic .  He know's because he is an alcoholic and he can recognize any type of addiction, even if it is as innocent as the love of reading.