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Diabolical Baby Brigade

Katrin BabbJune 24, 2025

The Mission Log of the Diabolical Baby Brigade has a new post Diabolical Blueberries As Logged by Agent Chase   How does Chase get the dogs going? Find out in: Diabolical Blueberries  

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Writing

Chicken Soup for the Soul is Looking for Stories on Grandmothers

Katrin BabbJune 22, 2025

Chicken Soup for the Soul books are great.  You can sit down with a cup of tea and read one, three, a dozen, or all 101 stories in each book at a time. What’s also great is submitting to them.  And they […]

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Funny Friday

Diabolical Inspiration is Easy with a Baby

Katrin BabbJune 20, 2025

The Diabolical Drei! Someone asked recently where I got the idea for the Diabolical Baby Brigade blog post, Getting Even with Tissues Well…                 It’s pretty easy with a baby.

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Everyday Farm Life

Preparing for Power Outages

Katrin BabbJune 19, 2025

“Mommy, help!  The lights went out!” What do you do when this happens?  Grab a flashlight. Wait, where’s the flashlight? “MOMMY!” Living in a rural area where strong storms are the norm for spring and early summer, the power goes out often.  […]

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Diabolical Baby Brigade

Diabolical Baby Brigade

Katrin BabbJune 17, 2025

The Mission Log of the Diabolical Baby Brigade has a new post A Diabolically Stinky Bed As Logged by Agent West Find out in: A Diabolically Stinky Bed  

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Happy Father’s Day!

Katrin BabbJune 15, 2025

For every monster you scared out from under my bed. For every nighttime story that you read. For every booboo that you bandaged. For every crazy second that you managed. Thank you for always being there. Happy Father’s Day!

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Writing

Writing A Query/Cover Letter for Short Works

Katrin BabbJune 14, 2025

Ah, the dreaded query… You either hate them or don’t really care about them.  I have yet to meet anyone who actually loves writing a query letter, but have met plenty of writers who want to vent about them. In essence, a […]

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Funny Friday

I love hay!

Katrin BabbJune 13, 2025

  Now that’s a happy heifer!

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Family Crafts

The Cushy Stair Slide

Katrin BabbJune 11, 2025

It may not be fancy, but it is the simplest idea that provided our daughter (and everyone) with hours of silly playtime.  I present to you: THE CUSHY STAIR SLIDE The idea came after finding plastic, link together stair slides available for […]

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Everyday Farm Life

Taking Advantage of Overgrown Lawns

Katrin BabbJune 10, 2025

Those two pictures were taken from my kitchen window.  How cool is that?! Our backyard is the low point of our property, meaning that it will remain too wet to mow for months.  Especially, after a spring as wet as this year’s. […]

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Katrin Babb

Katrin Babb

Mother, daughter, wife, and diabolical writer. When not going crazy with farm life, running around like a mad hatter taking care of my family, or scheming about the next scene to write, I'm finally taking some time to relax by training for the next triathlon/duathlon and mud run

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