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More Tasks Than Time These Days...

I must be the world's worst blogger.  I don't intentionally ignore my little piece of cyberspace, but these days I feel there is just an overwhelming amount of "stuff" to do and not enough time to get...

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Dissertation and Applesauce?

Totally random title, I know but that's how things seem to be rolling these days at Wilted Acres.  I have a meeting this week with my dissertation chair and I am very disappointed in my progress up to...

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My Life As A Doctoral Candidate

I don't neglect my little corner of cyberspace intentionally, I just don't have a whole lot of time these days.  With the push to complete the first two chapters before the end of the semester, working...

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Keeping It Together

I've had people ask me how I get it all done.  The honest answer is, I don't.  I have more to do than time to get it done. For example, my house still has pumpkins from Halloween on the front porch but...

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How Can It Be 2014???

Hello Readers!I seriously have to be the worst. blogger. ever.  I think regularly about all of the fabulous posts I am going to write but never seem to have the time to sit down and do it. I had two...

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This Knit Wit's Organized!

     Winter is in full force around Wilted Acres! Lots of snow, ice and below average temps have made this one of the hardest winters I can recall in many, many years.  While I'm sure my students and I...

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April Showers Bring... an Overdue Blog Post!

So, I just looked and saw that the last time I posted to my blog was February (early February at that!). I had grand plans to write 4 posts in March but it just didn't happen.  Babycakes ended up very,...

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Fire and Flood

No work for me today! Our school division is closed due to flooding throughout the county. Babycakes is sleeping in, the Hubs is off to get a haircut and I am enjoying my morning coffee and the Today...

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Week (and a little more) In Review

Ah, Memorial Day. The unofficial start of summer. While it is warming up, it is no where close to what I would consider summer here at Wilted Acres. To me, summer is 85+ degrees with a bit of humidity...

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Is the End in Sight???

As another school year winds down our state mandated testing is in full swing. This means countless hours of watching kids sit on front of a computer screen while they show the world what they know....

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The Aftermath

We've been busy here at Wilted Acres this summer. We just returned from a two week trip. As soon as I deal with this mess......I'll make some time to update you all on what's been going on here. Hope...

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Summer in Review

I know I said I would write a post after cleaning up from the mayhem that followed our two weeks out of town. I also realize that was several weeks ago. But here is my excuse. Wait for it.  Summer....

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My Thoughts on Having an Only Child

I'm going to tell you a secret...I didn't always want to be a mother. Between the ages of 18 and 20 I was going to be a career woman. No kids for me - just a smokin' hot husband! ;-)  In my early...

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The Things I Do for Research...

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Struggles in a Vintage Era Kitchen

I've just about had it with my kitchen. Built in the 1940s I continue to struggle to keep it organized in the new millennium. While I love the vintage charm of the oak trim, the original metal...

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Who Has Time for New Year's Resolutions???

I just finished reading one of my favorite blogs, Homemakers Daily. In it, Patty shared that she doesn't make resolutions because "her plate is full" right now. I don't know why this resonated with me,...

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Time to Tighten Our Belts...

      When the hubs and I started dating in late 2004 I immediately fell in love with his house. Wood floors, oak trim, metal kitchen cabinets, old house charm. He was told it was built in 1952, but...

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Small Scale Spring Cleaning

Spring is finally beginning to make an appearance here at Wilted Acres! That being said, I wanted to share a quick organizing project with you. We have a tv cabinet in our master bedroom where we store...

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Where I've Been and Where This Blog Is Heading

Wow. Three months since my last post. I shouldn't be surprised as that seems to be normal for me, but I don't like my sporadic posting schedule. (If you can even call it a schedule!)  I'll get to my...

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I'm Not Dead!

One Year, Six Months, and Nineteen Days.81 Weeks and Two Days.569 Days.13,656 hours (give or take).Regardless of how you break it down, I have been absent from my blog for a REALLY long time.I didn't...

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Wilted Acres Update

The other day I sat down and did a massive Brain Dump at work.  I had what felt like a million thoughts racing around in my brain and I could not focus on all of the things that I needed to finish. So...

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Money Saving Monday: Life After a Terminal Degree

I was so blessed to have gone through my undergraduate and graduate degrees without the need for student loans and the accompanying debt.  However, I was not as fortunate when it came to my Ed.D. I...

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Long Overdue Update!

Time has flown by here at Wilted Acres!  Miss Priss and I went back to school the first week in August and it has not slowed down one bit!First Day of First Grade!Despite the early start to the school...

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Farm Living Friday

While we live on two acres, we do not live on a farm.  That doesn't mean we don't embrace farm living.  We reside in a rural community and the hubs has spent more than half of his life working in the...

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Farm Living Friday

Recently, Miss Priss and I went to visit my Dad.  While we were there we went to Wade's Mill.  If you want information about it, you can find it here.  Wade's Mill has been producing stone ground...

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