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Whew and Yahoo!
It’s official. The contract for Different Dream Parenting: Raising a Child with Special Needs is signed, sealed and delivered. Whew and yahoo! Not that I thought Discovery House Publishers (DHP) would pull out of the deal. The people there have great integrity. Still,...
Hiram and Jolene: Not Quite Super Models
On Saturday, the daughter dashed any hopes Hiram and I entertained about becoming super models. What’s worse she did it in front of thirty or forty people who attended the wedding shower our church held for both our children and their sweethearts. Her motives were...
Feedin the Fam
Now that the Philo household consists of just me and Hiram, our grocery bills have gone way down. Event though Hiram has a healthy appetite, sometimes, I go two weeks between trips to the supermarket. Pretty nice. About a month ago, we had company. Hiram’s cousin (our...
Orange Julius
Yesterday was an absolutely glorious day, sunny and warm after a week of gloom and rain, so Anne and I took advantage of it. We made out a long wedding shopping list and went to so many stores, we eventually lost count of how many we visited. We ordered lunch at...
The Philo Phamily Cookbook
For the past year or so, I’ve been posting a recipe a week on my blog. I’ve been upfront about the method behind this madness. My kids both want a cookbook of favorite family recipes, so posting them on the blog killed two proverbial birds with one stone, thought I...
wait wait…don’t tell me!
Is this week’s news elevating your blood pressure? Are hallucinogenic drug looking like an attractive way to get your mind off the dismal state of national and world events? Believe me, Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, NPR’s weekly comedy news show is just what the doctor...