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Terrie Soberg is a mother of 9 children and grandmomma of Lil Scotty and Jayden, and Kaeden. She keeps busy taking care of her new husband, Dave, and the children at home: Annika, Jared, Aimee, and Bonnie. She also owns a photovideography and web design business, reads, paints, and does her own genealogy as well as helps others to find their dead people. She counts this blog as her journal, so it better be good!

David Soberg is a very brave man. He agreed to marry Terrie, knowing that she came with the brood in a package deal. Dave is a graduate of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He is the Operations Manager of a contract cleaning service. He enjoys fishing, making jokes, watching the Colbert Report and being cynical. And he is the luckiest man on earth, by his own admission!

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Word of the Day

Word of the Day–Truculent

Boy, is this one timely!
The Word of the Day for April 23 is:
truculent \TRUCK-yuh-lunt\ adjective
1 : feeling or displaying ferocity : cruel, savage
2 : deadly, destructive
*3 : scathingly harsh : vitriolic
4 : aggressively self-assertive : belligerent
Example sentence:
“I lived with that THING for 17 years,” said the truculent man of his ex-wife.

Intelligent Conversations

Here is an example of one of the intelligent, yet humorous exchanges between Dave and myself:
Dave told Annika, “Nevertheless, you can’t do that.”
I said, “Hey, nevertheless is one of my words.”
Dave immediately went on WordReference.com and started to look up words he could use.
He asked me if he could have “theretofore” or did I already […]

WOTD: Folderal

The Word of the Day for December 14, 2007 is:
folderol • \FAHL-duh-rahl\ noun

1 : a useless ornament or accessory : trifle
2 : nonsense

Example Sentence:
Cherie dismissed the tabloid article as useless folderol.
Some of my favorite folderalic (I made that up!) words are:

Hogwash
Claptrap
Hooey
Drivel
Malarkey

According to […]