Monthly Archives: May 2010

borrowed scenery

May 29, 2010 – 12:44 am

Butch, our neighbor across the street frequently tells me that between the two of us, he’s the smarter one. When I look out our window toward his house I see this: And when he looks out his window at our house he sees this: “And I don’t have to do a thing,” he laughs. Help [...]

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folding a memory box

May 23, 2010 – 4:04 pm

Longtime readers of Craft Nectar may remember my post last December on the unexpected death of my dear friend Tina Lillig. Tina was the National Director of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program in the US. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Good Shepherd program, it’s an amazing Montessori-based Christian education [...]

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you, me and facebook

May 18, 2010 – 10:36 am

I totally blame it on the woman who showed up at our back door on a Sunday afternoon three years ago. We were hurrying to get our daughter ready for a choir performance. Our next door neighbor was having a yard sale when the woman asked her if she knew where the FunQuilts “shop” was. [...]

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summer hand-washing reinvented

May 14, 2010 – 7:00 am

I know that there are really important issues out there facing the world such as wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the economic collapse of Greece, volatility in the stock market and the oil slick the size of Puerto Rico in the Gulf of Mexico that BP can’t seem to stop, but frankly I don’t feel [...]

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the sweetest rats

May 10, 2010 – 9:12 pm

I have blogged about our daughter’s school book club and about the book club that she and I share but there’s a third book club that she’s involved with. It’s a neighborhood kids’ book club. Members take turns hosting the monthly meetings and whoever is hosting chooses the book for that month. One of the [...]

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