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Whenever I need a funny photo, I need look no further than the tail end of my siblings.  The baby sister readily supplies fodder, without either of us putting forth any effort.

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Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life, with Like Mother, Like Daughter.

Seven (Quick) Quick Takes: Volume 19

Linking up with Conversion Diary for Seven Quick Takes Friday.

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We've got colds again around here, and I'm seriously thinking of treating the virus with a Knickerbocker Glory.  Ice cream makes everything better.

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The latest in the Harry Potter book club is up at Spinning Straw into Gold.

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So is the latest copy of Soul Gardening, which is cheap-as-free, so why aren't you subscribed yet?

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Please join us in praying a Chaplet of Divine Mercy for a Catholic Students Union friend of my sisters'.  He went missing out in his kayak in Pensacola four days ago.  They called off the search yesterday.  Mary, Star of the Sea, pray for us.  Stella Maris, ora pro nobis!

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I don't think I've shared this yet, which I must, because it is a treat.

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Affiliate with me!  Let's swap buttons or somethin'.

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Yesterday, we saw The Great Gatsby in the theater  and the whole experience, for me, is best summarized by the statement, "That was the best movie I've ever seen in my life."

Not hyperbole.

Theme Thursday: Animals

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Oh Scout, I hate to love you.  You showed up a mere weeks before my wedding with your brothers, half-starved and nearly frozen, and slept curled up underneath my chin those first nights back, crawling and inching forward until you couldn't get any higher than smothering-me-height.  My mom thought you were a coyote (???).

Your primary talent is biting the heck out of tires on cars driving at ten miles an hour.  It's a good thing you don't have a bank account because you'd owe me at least $1,000 in new rubber.

Secondary talent: licking the Squirt until he's a mewling, squealing fuss-bucket.

Clan Donaldson has more animals this week for Theme Thursday!