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One more post, since it is more interesting than folding clothes or cleaning the kitchen... We got pansies, as I mentioned earlier, and we decided to try to get them in the ground before they perished. Because of a misunderstanding about the size of the flowers, instead of 36 pansies, we actually got 54, a few more than I wanted to plant (I am just glad we didn't end up with 72, which was possible). We went out to the triangle with our shovels and the flowers and started to dig holes. One of the shovels is lost in our car somewhere, so I actually ended up digging most of the holes with my hands. Fortunately, I was just digging in dirt placed over the lawn, so it wasn't too hard to dig. Eleanor picked a pansy, named it, planted it, then picked another one to be the child of the one she planted first. Amanda dug huge swaths out of the mulch, putting the mulch and dirt on our lawn. She planted two pansies. Luke, contrary to expectations, did not want to help me dig holes. H...

I bought the 7th Harry Potter novel a few days ago. To tell the truth, I can't even tell you what its name is, except that I knew I wanted to read it before it came out in paperback and there is no way I'm going to check it out from the library this century. Those of you who know that I read fast might ask if I like the ending. Yes, I do, although I haven't read the middle yet. It seems a bit scandalous, but almost the first thing I did was turn to the ending and see if it ended satisfactoraly. Before you judge me too harshly, keep in mind that I have 3 children, two of whom don't nap and the one who does nap has this tendency to stay up at least an hour in the middle of the night. This means that my reading time is limited to 10 minute spurts during the day between fights, and after they are asleep (when I usually clean the kitchen) and even when I am reading, I have such a small tired attention span that I can barely keep track of anything. This is a big book, a...