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Expect More from Your Daughters

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We should expect more, not less, from our daughters and granddaughters in the work arena. At the same time, we have to establish different expectations on the home front for our sons and grandsons. We must have the same or similar career expectations for our daughters as we do for our sons. I think it would.

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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? My hobbies range from reading to painting, pen-and-ink drawing, cooking/baking, and writing. an illustration I did for one of my son’s books. Here’s Karen: 1.

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Free Kindle Books | Simon Said & More

For the Mommas

These two children share the common bond of a pitiful existence, played out with a rough diamond father who clearly wanted sons instead of daughters.” ” Download The Wayward Child to your Kindle or free Kindle Reading App. ” ~ The Kindle Book Review. Please use your discretion when downloading these books.

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Routines – a Powerful Force for Health and Wealth

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When my grown son wanted to lose weight, he started by convincing himself not to eat after 7 PM, no matter what. My daughter-in-law has already taught her children to only eat a single ‘serving size’ of treats. The paint had to be sanded to a smooth base before I could re-paint. He lost weight.

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Free Kindle Books: Wings of Glass, The Sounds OF Cricket And More

For the Mommas

The acrylic paintings are very chickeny, full of watery color, and in your face good, especially the ones of me. In the world of Gertrude Charmaine Beasley, exists the soft-spoken, black-sheep daughter in law, Becky Beasley, married to the not-quite-celebrated son, Matthew. Download: Letters from a Monster-in-Law by K Guest.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Nicoles Nickels

But I imagined it pretty clearly, all bundled up in a brightly painted (red) sleigh, the horses wearing bells which jingled as they stepped through the sparkling snow. The day starts/started with my mother or me or now my daughter getting up and stuffing the bird and getting it into the oven. I can still picture it in my mind.

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A Quick Change of Perspective

Nicoles Nickels

As you might remember, my daughter, son-in-law and grandson and I all live together. And while my dogs tend to stay down here with me, my daughters cats have no boundaries and basically roam all over. I was around the corner and screaming like a little kid for my son-in-law to come down and get it NOW!