{"id":756,"date":"2009-02-19T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2013-11-13T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:53:36","slug":"in-praise-of-just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/in-praise-of-just-because\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of: Just Because&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SZ21WKICKSI\/AAAAAAAABSw\/VPqrEWDrj-U\/s1600-h\/IMG_1973_2.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304595328392112418\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SZ21WKICKSI\/AAAAAAAABSw\/VPqrEWDrj-U\/s400\/IMG_1973_2.JPG\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 302px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>Pippi and Misty as interesting characters&#8211;Granny took this while I was in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>I smell something rotten in the state. Is it my puppy? I will give him a bath, just in case. I keep smelling this dreadfully funky stench and cannot locate it&#8217;s origin. So I&#8217;ll start with Fernando.<br \/>Tabs is home again with bowel cramps. I am at a loss. I took her off dairy. If her cramps don&#8217;t improve in a few days I&#8217;ll try wheat. If that fails it is off to the Doctors for a round of tests. <br \/>I arrived home late last night. My poor darlings didn&#8217;t get supper until 8. Mist had a friend&#8211;Taylor stay and help babysit Pip and Tabs. They gave them a bubble bath in their bathing suits and made them pancakes (milk-free for Tabs). I took Tabs for a quick stop at her school&#8217;s book fair before I picked up the Mist and her science project. She purchased a $20 book for Mistaya&#8211;just because and a &#8220;Dora&#8221; book for Pippi&#8211;just because! And a book and a few erasers and pencils for herself. She is a generous little spirit who loves to spend her money.<br \/>Preparing for my paper&#8211;Fan Fiction and incorporating it into middle years English curriculum. Must learn all I can to support<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span>t my own thesis topic: Writing online fiction for Interactive, hypertextual, middle years, novel study. Tired and overwhelmed on the home front. I truly need a full time house keeper. One who shops for my groceries and keeps the house tidy daily, and washes weekly linens. There you go&#8211;if I could hire that wonderful employee&#8211;my home would run like a ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pippi and Misty as interesting characters&#8211;Granny took this while I was in Vancouver. I smell something rotten in the state. Is it my puppy? I will give him a bath, just in case. 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