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I've been thinking about the idea of protection, the means by witch we keep ourselves safe.  I for one am a habitual door locker.  To the point where I have locked my husband in the garage.  While he's working on something out there I have to really remind myself to not lock the laundry room door.  Cars and doors are always locked as soon as I step out of them, sometimes even if I am going to need it open in under a minute.  It might be slightly more OCD than real safety concern though.  I do realize that locks don't actually do much.  I mean, if someone wants to break into your house it's not like they walk up to the door, try the knob and say, "Oh darn, foiled by this pesky lock."  No, they BREAK in.  The lock would only just slightly slow them down.  Sorry if I'm starting to worry some of you out there that might believe that those locks are really all you need to protect yourselves. Sure there is things we do to attempt to stay safe and free from har

There have been a lot of heavy things happening around here lately.  Not that there are difficult things my family is personally dealing with but a lot of difficulties happening around us.  I haven't been blogging as much because I just don't know what to say.  Everything I would think to mention just seems so frivolous in comparison to what others are facing.  Yesterday when I got home from picking up my daughter from school she started to cry.  I mean really cry and it took a little while to work out of her what was wrong.  She eventually told me that one of her friends, a girl who was in her class last year that she eats lunch with every day this year wasn't at school.  She had asked about her and was told that this little girls mother had passed away.  I had heard that one of the moms was very sick last year but the information about what child it was hadn't been shared.  Since we didn't hear any more about it I had assumed there was a turn around and she had

As I have mentioned before, I'm cheap.  That cheapness extends to my coffee drinking habits.  Don't get me wrong, I love a good cuppa.  It's not that I dislike the coffee at the many coffee places in the vicinity.  I just can't bring myself to spend that much money when I can make a perfectly acceptable cup in the comfort of my own home.  I once worked with a girl that would bring a coffee for herself and sometimes a friend from one of those places each shift she worked.  I know some of you are thinking it's not that crazy to have a coffee each shift but when you work in a restaurant that serves coffee it's a little more unnecessary.  She once told me she spent $50 a week on these drinks.  Now, I'm not math wiz but that adds up to $200 a month and $2,400 a year!  There are quite a few different ways I would spend that money, I can assure you! We have a 12 cup maker and buy the big containers of grounds.  Each one might cost us I would say an average of $10