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    Garden of Procrastination

    Well, the garden is sorta planted. I still have peppers to plant, and a tomato plant. There are still zucchini seeds to get in there and cucumbers and such, too. It seems I’ve lost my enthusiasm this year for it. The garden, now, feels like something I used to do…

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    By the river socks.

      While in Chicago I swung by Loopy Yarns for some souvenir yarn. The store is on the southern part of the loop, close to where the husband had his conference at the Hilton, so it was a fairly quick walk to visit after our lunch. It was incredibly tempting to…

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    Friday five(ish): yarn

    Coming back from vacation, I immediately set out to take advantage of my new-found motivation and start purging. I’ve done this before, but my binges end as quickly as they start. I just get burnt out and overwhelmed. I want to document a bit the things I remove from my…

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    Easing back into routine

    We arrived home yesterday, much to my relief. By Saturday I was getting home sick and missing the baby, to the point where that night I packed as much as I could so we’d have less to do Sunday, and then Sunday morning we were up and out of the…

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    More than a vacation

    I had a lot of anxiety about this trip. I’ve never been to Chicago. I’ve never really been to a big city like this. Let alone the fact that I was going to be on my own for a large part of it while the husband is in a conference.…

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    Spring-ish

    Spring has come and gone, it seems. We had lovely spring-like temps and rain and then suddenly the furnace was turned on around here and we’ve been hitting 85+ degrees. And, of course, our air conditioner broke. Trying to suffer through the heat with a baby is not fun at…