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I was just looking at some of my older posts and realized as I was browsing how much I use(d?) the word “anyway”.
I was also thinking how, when speaking out loud, we tend to frequently utilize unnecessary words in random places (e.g. So, yeah, like, I really, um, yeah, liked that).
And then I began to [...]

Rebekah and my now 6-year-old sister Alaynah have recently had a birthday. Alaynah had a water slide in the backyard which everyone including the older kids enjoyed…. Oh, and Bekah is getting a new camera. She seems to be delighted in the fact that it’s a little better than mine. Alaynah got a [...]

Here are some more famous smart-aleck “ha ha, you’re just saying that because you can’t say anything else” retorts that I have recently added to my superhuman vocabulary:
1. Congratulations.
2. Congratulations again.
3. I’ve noticed.
4. You’ve mentioned that.
Or if someone is being hypocritical and is in need of assistance realizing it:
5. Wait a minute, wasn’t it you [...]

I have only two minutes left on the computer, so I’ll tell you a couple of my favorite conversation stoppers when I am talking with Rebekah:
1. Cool.
2. So?
3. And?
4. I don’t care.
5. What is that supposed to mean to me/and that means…?
6. Who cares?
7. Whatever.
8. ” [...]

I had forgotten about this one.
Some time late last year I slept over at a friend’s house and we had decided that we would make apple-cinnamon muffins. Yum! Here’s what we did according to the recipe:
1. We mixed the dry ingredients.
2. We mixed the wet ingredients.
3. We mixed butter, cinnamon, [...]