The curtains are slightly parted, the sun streams into the room – casting it’s golden glow on the mess the kids made in the living room today. The dishwasher is running, there’s a good audio book playing on the iPad (checked out for free from the libra…
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January 17th, 2012
These Days are Precious
It’s 70°F one day and 30°F the nextwe have sniffles and colds and a fire going in the wood stoveplaying duplo’s, dress-up, jingle bells, broke truck, house, store, cars, kitchenmy husband is facing some potentially severe medical issuesour already he…
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Thank You Blogosphere
So it’s been a bit hectic around here lately and I never can seem to get to the end of my to-do list so I’ve let some things go… folding the socks, updating my blog, making fudge…But – over the past month I’ve been specifically aware of things I’ve…
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This is love
This morning, like every morning, I gave both of my children a big good morning hug and said "you know that I love you!" to both of them. My girl smiles at me and throws her arms around me, gives me a kiss on the cheek and gets one back and says "I love you Mommy." My boy does the same – except he gives me a "kiss nose" and says "My love you Mommy" then looks at his sister and says "and Tay!"
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Cranberry Lemon Cake – last minute awesomeness!
So… Saturday night it dawned on me that I had to make a desert for the church Thanksgiving dinner the next day and I didn’t have all the ingredients for what I had planned to make. I scoured the pantry and found a box of lemon cake mix and a can of w…
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Blog Seasons
Once upon a time I had a blog that I posted at occasionally and hardly ever commented on anyone else’s posts and about a year after I started it I deleted it.Then I had a baby and started working from home and discovered blogging again – Mommy blogs an…
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Preschool at our house: History
I am a history buff. I love history – love reading about earlier times, imagining life "back then" and learning about life without all of our modern conveniences. I enjoy reading historical fiction, visiting history museums, looking through old photographs, hearing stories about my own family and my friends families. So when I started thinking about homeschooling and starting with preschool – I
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She Bakes!
For the Fall Version of the 3-time a year bake sale our church has at one of the huge craft fairs in our town. This is most of what I baked. We also make peanut brittle as a church and some crafts – this sale we netted $1100! Not bad for a bake sale.Fr…
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Preschool at our house – Bible
God is important in our house. Learning the stories of the Bible, memorizing Bible verses, learning "Christian" principals are all things I want my children to do. I want them to understand my faith so that when the time comes it can be their faith – or if they choose to walk away from it that choice will not be made from ignorance of what my faith is based on.I’m pretty particular about details
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What’s Your Excuse?
Today is a sad day for the family and friends of Steve Jobs. I’m a Mac girl myself so I appreciate what he brought to the world of computers but outside of the news frenzy about his death and the empathy I feel as one human for another in hurt the life…
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PreSchool at our House: Reading & Writing
I spent years tutoring kids as young as 2nd grade all the way up to Senior’s in High School and it seems to me that the biggest problem these kids have had is in reading comprehension. Even those I’ve tutored in Math or Science seem to be lacking somet…
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Preschool at our house – An overview
We’ve been doing preschool for close to a month now and I believe we are all enjoying the process. I’ve taken my typical eclectic approach to the task and keep thinking I should post about it here – so that maybe my experience will help someone else an…
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Four
My baby girl is four. FOUR? I can’t hardly believe that it’s true – but it is.We’ve been doing homeschool preschool and she loves it – loves doing worksheets, learning to read, listening to me read from the first book in the History of the World series…
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In Retreat
In retreat
I’m overwhelmed right now
and excited too
my parents will be here for a week in just 4 days
Work is busy
Homeschool Preschool is fun and time-consuming (for Mom!)
and the packing, organizing, storing, cleaning-out… never seems to end
I …
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Then I saw him
Today I stopped at the gas station to fill up my nice, 2003 SUV with leather interior, air conditioning and adjustable seats. Then I saw him.
Dirty, disheveled, holes in his clothes, lying peacefully on the sidewalk in front of the convenience store, …
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This week’s post has been postponed by thieves and goose calling
Saturday night the local young hoodlums struck our neighborhood again. Breaking into both of our vehicles, stealing my nice camera and my GPS. A few weeks ago they stole a laptop, GPS, and some other things from our neighbors two doors down.
Frustrate…
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This week’s post has been postponed by thieves and goose calling
Saturday night the local young hoodlums struck our neighborhood again. Breaking into both of our vehicles, stealing my nice camera and my GPS. A few weeks ago they stole a laptop, GPS, and some other things from our neighbors two doors down.
Frustrate…
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Dabbling with Interior Design – a Kitchen
My parents recently purchased a beat-up house to fix up. One of the big problem areas is the kitchen. Here is what the kitchen looks like now:After talking to Daddy and hearing his vision for the space – dark wood cabinets, light wood floors, butcher b…
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Dabbling with Interior Design – a Kitchen
My parents recently purchased a beat-up house to fix up. One of the big problem areas is the kitchen. Here is what the kitchen looks like now:After talking to Daddy and hearing his vision for the space – dark wood cabinets, light wood floors, butcher b…
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Bowing Out
I’m opinionatedI’m outspokenI’m decisiveI’m not confrontational.I know that this issue has been rehashed time and again in the Mom Blogging world and in the Outdoor Blogging world and I’m sure in every other niche blogging world in the blogosphere at l…
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Bowing Out
I’m opinionatedI’m outspokenI’m decisiveI’m not confrontational.I know that this issue has been rehashed time and again in the Mom Blogging world and in the Outdoor Blogging world and I’m sure in every other niche blogging world in the blogosphere at l…
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Hope
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.Proverbs 13:12, KJVIt’s one of those times… I have so much I want to say, but none of it is coming out right. Some things I want to say, but can’t – because while t…
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Hope
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.Proverbs 13:12, KJVIt’s one of those times… I have so much I want to say, but none of it is coming out right. Some things I want to say, but can’t – because while t…
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Photographing Kids in Motion
The other day I needed to get pictures of the kids in color-coordinated outfits for a project so we went a-photographing…I managed to get one – out of about 100 that worked… but here are some of the out-takes.Our recent professional photo session s…
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Photographing Kids in Motion
The other day I needed to get pictures of the kids in color-coordinated outfits for a project so we went a-photographing…I managed to get one – out of about 100 that worked… but here are some of the out-takes.Our recent professional photo session s…
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Eclectic
My Pandora station is playing a custom quick-mix – black gospel, southern gospel, jazz, big band, blues, swing, classical – and I like it all.My cooking is a reflection of the same eclectic approach to life – spicy Indian curry one night, down-home chi…
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