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Articles in August 2008

• Miracle On Burlington Path

  Posted: 26 August 2008 at 12:35 p.m.

  Holy smokes, I can't believe I'm even saying this. I am almost completely caught up. Yes, you heard me right; I am almost completely caught up! It's like a miracle! Not a true miracle, of course, not like the Miracle of the Blessed Appearance of the School Bus, but a miracle nonetheless. You will be so shocked when you hear how caught up I am. Not half as shocked as me, but still. 

  The past year and a half has been a doozy, to say the least. My cancer came back, the ever-popular Mr. Kimmy needed a quadruple bypass, I got a stent in my heart, my thyroid got a little too much radiation and sprouted problems, and my kids went and turned into extremely busy teenagers while I wasn’t looking. When this much life attacks you all at once, you sort of fall behind a little bit, and I have been feeling totally behind the eight ball since early 2007, with ever increasing mounds of incomplete tasks piling up everywhere I look. This bugs the living daylights out of me, because I am one of those really irritating Martha Stewart types who must have everything ...

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• It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

  Posted: 11 August 2008 at 6:51 p.m.

  It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! (I'll bet you're going to have that song stuck in your head all day long now, aren't you? LOL!) Yes, that's right, folks, it's BACK TO SCHOOL TIME!!!! I love school. I love the happy, smiling bus driver who cheerfully arrives at the street corner bright and early every morning and takes all of the children away for 8 hours. I love the other Moms who all come out of their houses still dressed in their bathrobes, clutching their coffee cups, doing the happy dance in their driveway. I love the peace and quiet that falls on the neighborhood, and the way you can actually go for a walk and hear birds chirping sweetly instead of hearing 'I Like Big Butts and I Cannot Lie' pouring from the garage down the street where the skateboard kids hang out and spend the afternoon working on their spitting skills. Yes, it's true, I love school. When my kids were little, my neighbor, Keri, and I used to threaten to make signs and form a picket line in front of the school every June, shouting “What do we ...

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