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Everybody’s got a Water Buffalo
“Is that caribou ours now or something?”  This was Stephanie’s question as she swept in the door a few moments ago. “Oh, yeah, didn’t you know? Everybody’s got a water buffalo,” I started to sing.

Happy Birthday Maggie
Today is a special day in the Smith family household. It is the anniversary of our dear daughter Maggie’s birth and death. I’ve never really talked much about Maggie on this blog. Her story has been written before, on other blogs, but today I wanted to re-write it to commemorate her short sweet life. Margaret Elizabeth “Maggie” was born on November 1, 2005. She only lived about 2 short hours. She was born 8 weeks early via C-section and weighed 9lbs. Yes, she was a big girl. Maggie had Fetal Hydrops, which basically is swelling and fluid retention in all her tissues. It was discovered in a routine ultrasound I ha

Windows Live Writer
This will be a short post. Two in one day, I don’t want to overwhelm my few followers. I just had to brag on this cool new program I found on my mini lappy I got for my birthday in September. Windows Live Writer. It is like a word processing program but specifically designed to work with most blogger programs. Basically you set up each blog you write on, and then when you desire to update your blog you can choose which blog you want to upload to. No more logging in and out of gmail if you run more than one blog using different email addresses like I do. I have my personal blogs, my business blogs, and a few others I write for. And there are cool editing tools like inserting ph

The Shirt
We have this shirt that has been worn by all of my children (who fit it) so far. It is almost ready to be passed down to Cassie. Here is Eric modeling it for us. It has a nice little hoody at the back that is great for keeping the sun off the back of the neck when hiking

A Christmas Sneak Peak
Today I’m going to step off of the educational track and blog about a hobby of mine instead. Several years ago I started to get into stamping and making my own cards. Eventually I decided to become a Stampin’ Up demonstrator in order to get discounts on stamps and supplies. And maybe, just maybe I’d be able to make a bit of money on the side. Well, I haven’t been able to make much money yet, but I am having fun. Because Christmas if fast approaching I have been working on Christmas cards. I decided to try a technique called One Sheet Wonder. It is where you take one sheet of designer paper and create as many cards as you can out of it. I found a template and managed to c