Author: Calamity Jane
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Real Life Revisited
Just had another productive baking morning. Made much needed granola, granola bars, and cranberry orange muffins. Sounds like I’m pretty fab, huh? Are you thinking, how does she do it? Here’s how: I just thought some housewifin’ ladies (or boys) out there might appreciate a little dose of reality. Everyone always wants to show pictures…
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(Almost) A Dream Come True
Ah, holidays. No working means no driving to work. No driving to work means no cars on the road! What an incredibly lovely walk I had this morning! Not exactly through lanes of gardens and fruit trees, but hey, at least the copious cars lining the street were still and silent. I could hear the…
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Real Life
On this new day the sun pours through our windows, greeting us upon our awakening with a joyful hello. We slip on our woolen slippers to buffer our toes from the chill of the wood floors. The waning embers in the woodstove from the night before have gently settled. One by one the children gather…
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Wifely Duties
No, I don’t mean that. Us progressive ladies and our progressive hubbies/partners had better not think of that as a duty. I’m talking about a few things I recently started doing that really Hubby should do for himself, and I’ve resisted until this point in our relationship because they seem so over-the-line wifely. But when…
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I Hate Cars
Yeah, I mean, it’s not like we don’t have one. It’s not like we don’t drive. But I don’t see how those facts interfere with my potential to hate cars. Lately my early morning routine goes like so: The Babe wakes up around 6. He wiggles and grunts (do all babies grunt like little pigs?…
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