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So now you see what you’re missing out on if you haven’t like my page yet.
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Speaking of Facebook, something else you might be missing out on is the almost-nightly conversation about dinner. Here’s a good example. I don’t know about you, but talking about what I’m cooking {or not cooking} is something I always feel like doing at about 5pm each evening. This may or may not be a form of procrastination. I’m undecided on that aspect of it, but either way the conversation makes me hungry every. single. time.
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As I find tutorials I think might work — for the children, or even just for myself — I pin them to my Fine Art Pinterest board here:
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In other news, I’ve spent a lot of time lately pondering the idea that Story is True, even when it isn’t factual. My children plague me by constantly asking, “Is this story true?” I’m always so torn. What they are really asking is whether it is fiction or non-fiction, but I get frustrated. I want to tell them that it is truer than many things that are factual, but I don’t know how to explain it. I’m hoping this book {at right} will help me. So far, I’m enjoying it, but it feels more like a memoir than I expected.
I recently introduced the idea of facts to Q-Age-Seven, thinking it would help. She asked if a story was true, and so I said, “Do you mean is it factual? Facts are things that happened in history. Some stories are true in the sense that they teach you something true, but they aren’t factual — the things in the story didn’t actually happen.
I thought that maybe this would help, but now she constantly asks, “Mommy? Is that facts?” and it really isn’t much better.
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It’s true to the original. And by original, I mean the first editions of the Grimm stories, before they wrote them in a way that appealed more to the middle class family. That, according to this article in the Guardian.
And while it is something I might enjoy reading myself, out of curiosity if nothing else, I don’t think I’d read it to children.
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In preparation for this, we kept what we thought was the most appropriate baby from last year’s kidding. Her name is Pepper, and she’s a cute little thing. I think she’ll be a fine replacement, and she has a quiet voice, and she’s very sweet. We’ve bred her, and she’ll kid in the spring, so we won’t even be down a doe for milking.
But Charlotte? I’m going to miss her.
More Seven Quick Takes posts are linked at Conversion Diary.
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