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Dec. 25, 2006

Home Spun strip #40!!!

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Dec. 24, 2006

Home Spun strip #39

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Dec. 21, 2006

Home Spun strip #38

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Although I modeled Bea (Gramma) after my own grandma, Miguel is modeled after my dad. Marina was the first to call him Buelo, shortened from abuelo or grandfather. Growing up with two different cultural experiences for Christmas did make life interesting! As I've mentioned before, Puerto Ricans celebrate on "Little Christmas" (Epiphany) more than on December 25. It does spread out the festivities and made it easy to know where we would be celebrating--Christmas with mom's family, January 6 for dad's. His tradition is to make a batch of "coquito," which could best be described as a Puerto Rican eggnog. It's a mixture of coconut, vanilla ice cream, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon and Puerto Rican Rum (although I've only had it virgin, I can't stand the taste of alcohol).

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Dec. 20, 2006

Home Spun strip #37

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Dec. 19, 2006

Home Spun strip #36

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I'm being ambitious this week, so I apologize if some of the punchlines don't carry a lot of punch! I changed the ending on this about five times. I think that's called writing yourself into a corner. Maybe I shouldn't rely on my family's reactions. Marina got this one, it only got a half chuckle from my husband, and Chase didn't get it. (When Chase gets it, he usually explains my jokes to me!)

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Dec. 18, 2006

Home Spun strip #35

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So what do you have left to do? We have chocolate dipping, tree trimming, and assembling the edible gifts. We also have religious ed and ballet today, a doctor's appointment, a Christmas party and religious ed tomorrow, Wednesday is Homespun Storytellers (can't get out of that, I run it), Thursday is dress rehearsal for the Christmas pageant, and Friday I collapse on the couch before a weekend of church and visiting (if I don't schedule that it will never happen!)

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Dec. 15, 2006

Home Spun strip #34

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Hello everyone! I'm working hard to keep the new strips coming! We're hard pressed for time right now, but I'm hoping to spend time on it after Christmas (although I am working on some Christmas strips). I also thought I would make use of the mailing list setting to inform my friends when I post new strips. If you would like to be the first to know about a new episode in the lives of Jess, Allen, Coral and Toby Spinner (yes, I did give them names), please e-mail me and I will add you to the elite list of Home Spun comic strip lovers!

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Dec. 13, 2006

Home Spun strip #33

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To all my Australian friends--I hope you are all safe and well and not near the wildfires I've been reading and hearing about. I'll pray for some rain for all of you, sounds like you could use it.

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Dec. 11, 2006

Home Spun strip #32

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Dec. 1, 2006

Home Spun strip #31

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Nov. 29, 2006

Home Spun strip #30

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Nov. 27, 2006

Home Spun strip #29

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Nov. 24, 2006

Home Spun comic strip #28

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Nov. 22, 2006

Home Spun comic strip #27

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

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Nov. 20, 2006

Home Spun comic strip #26

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If anyone has a really good play dough recipe (obviously, I don't) let me know and I'll post it with one of the upcoming comic segments. Get it to me this week and it can be listed with one of the play dough strips!

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Nov. 17, 2006

Home Spun strip #25

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For all who are wondering, I'm feeling a little better, but I did have to cancel my family poetry night.

Oh well, maybe I'll post a few of our poems here when I feel better.
For now, I will be dosing myself with tea and my sure fire remedy of a teaspoon of honey with garlic chopped into it (YUM!).
Enjoy this comic installment. Next week: Play dough!

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Nov. 15, 2006

Home Spun strip #24

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Nov. 13, 2006

Home Spun strip #23

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Here is a thought I had this morning:
I should not concern myself with teaching my children.
Whatever I do, they will learn.
Instead, I should focus on teaching myself:
How I view the world.
How I view myself.
How I view my faith.
Whatever I do, they will learn.

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Nov. 10, 2006

Home Spun strip #22

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Nov. 8, 2006

Home Spun strip #21

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Hey comic fans! For your viewing pleasure, I've reconfigured my blog so that you can see the first 20 (wow! I have 20 already!) comics on one page. Simply choose Home Spun comic strip from the categories list on the sidebar and you can view episodes 1-20 in all their flawed glory! (Still can't get Jess' features consistent. Aargh!)
I am setting up a new category, Home Spun comic part 2, for my next 20 strips, because I'm just so optimistic when I'm sleep deprived and have a migraine (It has to stop hurting sometime, eh?)

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