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What's Up Wednesday in August (2025)

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It's the last Wednesday of the month and that means it's time for What's Up Wednesday. Another month that has completely flown by!  What We're Eating:  This has been one of those weeks where I am just throwing dinner together each night based on what I can find around the house. So things like... Grilled chicken with potatoes and farm fresh veggies from our CSA box Burgers/turkey burgers with fries and salad Spaghetti and sauce with meatballs and salad A shrimp/ kielbasa stir fry with rice  What I'm Reminiscing About:  3 years ago this month we took two teens with us to Disney & Universal for the week and had such a great time. It was so different from taking young kids with us but so much fun!   What I'm Loving:  We have had some really beautiful hiking weather!      What We've Been Up To:  All college prep all the way; between buying all the new stuff for Alec's dorm apartment and getting him all packed up/dropped off/set up, ...
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Throwback Tuesday: Why I Always Let My Boys Read "Fluff"

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 *Originally posted on August 30, 2017 when my boys were 13, 11, & 9.  There seem to be two schools of parenting or teaching when it comes to encouraging kids to read: One camp wants to see kids reading quality literature and frown upon " fluff " (books of little substance or consequence that are superficially entertaining) while the other camp is just happy to see their kids reading. In case you couldn't tell by the title of this post, I'm one of those moms that is just happy to see her kids reading. Out of my three boys I only have one that LOVES to read and the other two tend to shy away from it. I usually have to cajole them into reading for just 15 minutes. Having struggled to raise two reluctant readers I have found so much value in allowing them to read fluff that I'm not even sure I can see the validity in the argument that kids should read quality literature! (Kidding!) Any books that make my non- readers happy to read is just fine by me!  I have alwa...
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