PROPELLED INTO BLOGGING BY MY CHILDREN....

I have no idea how to go about "blogging" but my children have told me to start blogging instead of sending them long e-mails and texts in the wee hours of the early morning!  They created this blog site for me as my Christmas present and I had to ask my husband Francis how to get on it this morning :) So here is my first test post to see how this "blog thing" works....

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