Monthly Archives: August 2009

Etsy for Mistys in many easy steps

A while back I asked you all if I should open an Etsy store. A couple of you replied that I should. I talked to Stephen about it (more than he ever wanted to hear, I’m sure) and I decided that I would go for it. My goal was (and still is) to finish the [...]

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Photo Catch Up

This is how Megan and I keep our kids out of trouble. See how it works?

From our weekend at the lake in Arkansas. You can imagine the kind of birthday May had with all her grandchildren in one spot.

The obligatory grandchildren on a brown couch photo. As Andrew said, “Everywhere we go, there are brown [...]

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Maybe They Meant a Chevy Suburban

A little over a week ago, we went back to Arkansas to have some time with my family. We stayed on Greers Ferry Lake, one of the several Arkansas lakes brought to you by your local Corps of Engineers and their dams. We visited, swam in the lake, and Andrew and I water-skied. For those [...]

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I Hadn’t Realized He’d Retired From the Public Eye

John Hughes, dead at 59.

For me, it was Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, though I also give the nod to Sixteen Candles despite its casual racism.

Did you have a favorite among his movies?

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Also, The Snacks Sucked

I attended kindergarten in a squat nondescript 1960s-era building. Years later I had some of my 8th grade classes there when my hometown decided to add 7th grade to the junior high school and that school ended up annexing the building. In January of that year I walked into the building to hear that the [...]

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Kindergarten

We rushed home from our weekend visiting with Stephen’s family to attend open house at Eli’s school.

I expected the school to look like the elementary school I attended: one very long hallway with second grade at the end nearest the offices and stretching to fifth grade at the far end, and Kindergarten, first grade, [...]

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“That’ll Give Us Enough Money to Save the Orphanage!”

TV’s Spatch, friend to animals everywhere, pointed out 80s Ending, a 2003 short that is indeed the ending to every 1980s teen comedy ever. It starts slow but picks up nicely as it goes. Be sure to hold on until the Baltimora song starts up.

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We’ll Be Back

But not for a few more days. We snuck away from the Internet to have some family time, which so far has involved very little blood and only one boating accident. You’ll just have to imagine the fun we had, at least until we get back and share it with the entire world.

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