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When my 5 children were growing up, I chose to be a full time homemaker. Because we were far from wealthy at that time, canning and freezing what we grew in our garden helped us use our resources so that we were more able to make financial ends meet each month. The result was not only provision of healthy meals for all of our family, but our children benefited by learning the value of hard work. They learned to grow good food. They learned to cook. They learned team work. They developed their imaginations. And they learned to value each other in a way I'm not sure they would have without all that effort. They now remember all that food-growing and food-preserving as being fun, and they don't remember that they did without anything because they feasted on good food every day. They are now passing all those valuable lessons on to their children.

posted 4 years, 7 months ago
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Delegates? Superdelegates? What happened to "Majority Rule"? One person/one vote? We are approaching rule by an elite group. This is frightening.

posted 5 years, 3 months ago
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