Monthly Archives: July 2011

Dear World

Dear World, Please stop so I can get off for a while. Not forever. Just for a little bit. Like, maybe somewhere between 20 minutes and 60 days. Thanks, Amy

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I heart Dean Koontz

I borrowed a copy of Dean Koontz’s new book, “What the Night Knows,” when the kids and I went to the library last week. And I’m addicted. It’s scaring the pants off me. I can’t put it down. I’ve even … Continue reading

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The Redneck Water Slide

Here’s what my kids did this weekend: Yup, that’s a hose squirting water down our regular slide into a plastic swimming pool from Walmart, then a sump pump (hey — we finally found a use for that thing!) beneath the … Continue reading

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Camping out — NOT

We set up a ginormous tent (that we had completely forgotten we owned) in our backyard this weekend for our first-ever Gulli family camp-out. I live along a creek that runs out of state gamelands, so we had a beautiful … Continue reading

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