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Thanks all for your input on the inside – outside sock dilemma.
When it boiled down to it, my issues were:
1) Like you, I thought the inside was more visually interesting than the outside.
2) But I started the sock w/ the pattern as is and w/o a bit of tweeking (which I didn’t feel like doing) [...]

If  I should keep my current sock outside out

or change it, turning it inside out

before I proceed with the heel.
I kinda like ‘em both!

Emily (12, watching Mythbusters) — Mommy! Did you see THAT?
Mommy (38, facing opposite direction of the tv) — Sure, with the eyes on the back of my head.
Sarah (9, playing on the computer) — She’s being sarcastic. The eyes on the back of her head are looking at me.

Another momentous moment in the day. =D

Hope you celebrate the time / day combo in interesting style.
Me?
Thanks to the post schedule feature, I’m likely drooling on my pillow at this very moment. Its SUMMER after all!

Heaven help us, this was SO good!
Wanna make some yourself? Of course you do! Here is the EASY PEASY recipe:
Stuffed French Toast Casserole
Ingredients
:: one fat loaf of french bread
:: 8 oz room temp cream cheese (we used pineapple flavored)
:: 4 eggs (or your favorite substitute)
:: 1 cup milk (or your favorite substitute)
:: 1/4 cup of [...]

… the day the school supply display is discovered.
That would have happened today. In Target. About 11am local time.
Every time the kids start wearing my nerves thin, the school supplies magically show up in the store and remind me that summer break is temporary. This joyous revelation is usually accompanied by the parting of the [...]

How sweet are these?
The girls and I had fun making these simple summer bracelets. Crafting really doesn’t get much simpler than these.
Materials:
a fat quarter or two or three or four or more! You could also use any scraps or yardage you have on hand. We happened to have  fat quarters on hand and their short [...]

Dinners at our house are always a challenge. There are five people under the roof with five different ways of looking at the table: (1) one confirmed meat eater who won’t admit you can eat a well rounded meal w/o consuming animal products, (2) one who is a lacto-ovo vegetarian (all meals here have some [...]

I dusted off the Girl Scout skills and lashed together a trellis for my cucumbers using some bamboo and dishcloth cotton.

I’m pretty proud of it! Hopefully the cukes grow UP big and strong! Right now they are trout-sized puny …
Grow little cucumbers! Grow!