Cart Before the Horse

Because I have gone back to work full time and have not yet figured out how to manage my time, and because someone should be writing on this blog, my dad has stepped in to guest blog today! Fear...

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If the summer slump has got you down, you can always try to entertain your kids by yourself. Like the mom I saw at Wal-Mart today. She had given her fourish-year-old son a frying pan and he was ...

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Hi-Ho, Emily-The-Mom here! A nod to the great Kermit the Frog. I like him, even if my youngest refuses to see his newest flick. “I don’t want to see it! It’s just a creepy version of t...

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I sort of feel like Anna in Frozen. After the glorious experience of finally being released into the freedom of the great, sunny, warm outdoors, she is relegated to shivering in the bitte...

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I had the chance to do craft last night at our church kids’ program. This particular group of kids is all third and fourth graders who are hilarious, creative and silly. We have only a sh...

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As I sit here on another “not-snow-day” during the coldest winter in history, I felt it necessary to put in the classic film, Spies Like Us. Also fitting, considering the current Olym...

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About two years ago I started this blog.  Seriously, two? I know! Time flies when you are wasting vast amounts of precious cleaning time making even more messes! Heaven! Over the last...

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Allow myself to introduce…myself. Wait, have I used that one already? One of the last times I took F-O-R-E-V-E-R to blog? Well, if I did, then you already know who I am. Welcome back! W...

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It all started back in 2012. October 31st, 2012 to be exact. It was a balmy day, about 20 degrees warmer than today, but with a light breeze. Something about the impending night of candy and cost...

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So, again we find ourselves together. If you are reading this while sipping coffee, we are sharing a cuppa together, because I wrote this while enjoying my own java. My Gramma used to send me...

http://cartbeforethehorse.blogspot.com/2013/10/arrrrrrr-you-ready-for-talk-like-pirate.html

It’s time to get serious. I mean really serious. You have heard me mention it before, but…my name is Emily and I have a pumpkin addiction. Whew! I feel so much better. It’s almost li...

http://cartbeforethehorse.blogspot.com/2013/09/run-run-run-as-fast-as-you-can-you-cant.html

Okay, I am on creativity overload and spinning myself into a craft/sewing vortex! Maybe I just need to get a real job…maybe. Let’s not go crazy yet, just threw it out there. If I did that...

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“They're coming to take me away, ha-ha! They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee hee, haa haa. To the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds, and basket-weavers who sit a...

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Whew, time to dust off the ol’ blog and crank out a new post. Sorry. We’ve had an action-packed summer and not a lot of down time! The fun musical Annie occupied most of the time until ou...

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It has been a whirlwind summer for us so far. Not too many of the lazy days of summer here. Or are there? Seattle beckoned the morning after school got out. The eldest went straight to church c...

http://cartbeforethehorse.blogspot.com/2013/07/104-days-of-summer-vacation-maybe-not.html

Well, as luck would have it, I can’t leave well enough alone. Remember our little duck friend from the other day? Good. I did too. That’s the problem. It was eating at me that we had so h...

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Yesterday we were minding our own business, just driving along on a sunny summer afternoon. But there in the road was a duckling, and it was decidedly out of the pond. Was it fate that I was ...

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So, recently I found myself spinning in a tornado of chaos. I know, you are probably saying, “You? Chaos?” Right. Well, it was the countdown to VBS. Remember my hiatus  last year fro...

http://cartbeforethehorse.blogspot.com/2013/06/slowing-down-at-spa.html

So I haven't blogged in a while. I got called out on it by my sweet friend so I think I will check back in. I am writing this on a flight to Seattle, obviously the best thing to do on a flight t...

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“Mayday!”  That’s what I yelled this evening. Well, it is May Day.  Maybe the better thing to have yelled was “Fore!” because we were golfing at the time. Golfing m...

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Sometimes I am concerned that a lack of free time in general is going to produce fewer inventors in our kids' generation. Overly structured time leads to less idle brain noodling, right? Seem...

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Guerrilla Gardening. Sounds a bit odd. I picture a housewife from the '50's (read June Cleaver) sporting greasepaint on her face and a camo apron, stealthily slinking through her petunias, sp...

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“I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, Everybody’s nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes. I know a song that ...

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This has been a bad week. A tragic week. Historically, too, this has been a tragic week. The assassination of President Lincoln, the sinking of the Titanic, the Oklahoma City bombing and Colu...

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So, I have said before that I think I was born in the wrong century. I like to hand quilt, cook, garden and build stuff. I love that I picked an entire big bag of swiss chard, collards and ro...

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