Author Archives | Lauren

About Lauren

Lauren Sommerer is a preschool teacher who likes to build prototypes, grow cats, cook things once, save money, reduce, reuse and recycle.

Note to self

May 13, 2012

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I made some dinner Sunday night. (For those of you who regularly cook that might not be such a big deal, but I haven’t cooked much in quite a while. Saturday night’s dinner was peanut butter sandwiches on stale bread – a real high point.) Anyway, I made some chicken-and-rice thing where the last step [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

May 12, 2012

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Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there, and especially our own. In Lloyd’s own words, “I hope someday I can be half as nice as my mom.” Awwwwwww… that’s very sweet, Lloyd. However, I feel my own Mom is the best, and I’m not just saying that because she has cancer. Yep. She [...]

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Lloyd hates that cat.

May 11, 2012

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Today was a long day. Our summer program starts up next week and we’re having church together as a Center tomorrow night and I had some time-management problems, so it was a late evening. The evening conspired to make itself later. Lloyd had a dinner to go to in Lincoln so I went to the [...]

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Lauren out.

May 10, 2012

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The past couple of weeks have been kind of busy, and I’ve soooo looking forward Thursday night, when I didn’t have anything going on. Just a night of watching television and perhaps zonking out on the couch. As I write this, I have just gotten up to get a drink of water, and I’m going [...]

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Advice for Future Lauren

May 9, 2012

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Dear Lauren, When the ice maker is broken and you can’t get the wire switch-thingy back in its spot, it’s a little white circle about half an inch in and two inches down. Feel for it with your finger, try to thread the wire end into it, try again, try again, and when you start [...]

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WRONG.

May 8, 2012

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One of the things that has ticked me off about living in this otherwise-very-nice state is how messed up they are about two-way stops. Back when I was a youngster in Colorado, we learned that if you are driving toward a stop sign but across the street from you at the other stop sign is [...]

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