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I have had the question posed "When do you find the time to blog?" Well, my usual time is late evening after the children go to bed. Unless Husband unknowingly gives them Dr. Pepper instead of the caffeine-free Root Beer he thought he picked up. In which case, children going to bed is pretty much unheard of and I just blog. :o) Obviously the baby went to bed on time. He's not quite ready for soda! (Although I once knew a woman who regularly put Mountain Dew in her baby's bottle. She had a 4.0 GPA but was a little slow in the parenting skills.) LadyBug finally gave it up at 10:00 PM. The FlowerChild is on the couch with her dolls rambling incoherently! Not really but she is a hoot when she gets going in her own little world with them!

My day was busy as usual. We got in quite a bit of homeschooling today with extra lessons in Math and Reading. So maybe the breakfast is helping! I got some daily cleaning done. Considered doing laundry but decided tomorrow would be a much nicer day for it. Our laundry room is outside under the carport so these cool days make it challenging! I really need to do laundry daily to keep up but when the weather is so miserable I would rather play catch-up on it than brave the cold and wet clothes! (FisherMan and FlowerChild are now having a detailed discussion about what exactly a tee time is. It's almost 11:00!)

Well, no sooner than I typed that than she appeared at my side and whispered,"I'm ready for bed" and promptly crawled up in my lap. She is now snuggled contentedly happy as a little lark. And why not? It's only 3 hours past her bedtime! Ah, it may be a good thing we did those extra lessons today!

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