From the monthly archives:
Grace recently turned 7. One of her gifts was the classic game Operation. The first time the children played it together, it was pretty much an unfair fight. Jaron, our current 10 yr old was getting piece after piece out with steadied hand ease, causing the 8, 7, & 4 yr old girls to become a [...]
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I’ve done a lot of reading, thinking, and praying over the years about how to train my children. I’ve said before that I’m no expert, not by far, but that we are blessed with relatively well-behaved children. We have never had any serious parent-dissing type behavior nor any truly foul attitudes (well, besides crabby preschoolers). [...]
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HSB friends, and anyone else who happens by this place, I’d love to have you visit at the new blog! www.anordinarymom.com Enjoying them, because of Him, ali
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A southern friend mentioned the daffodils popping up. I did a quick reality check, yep, it was still the middle of January. Living in The Frozen Tundra*, we’d have to take a trip to a conservatory, or at least to the floral section at the local grocery store, to see anything green (besides the evergreens, [...]
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201. puppies and all of the smiles and giggles they bring 202. boys to train the puppies 203. biscuits and sausage gravy for weekend breakfasts 204. the art of making gravy from scratch 205. baking shortbread 206. slowly, but surely, cleaning out the closets 207. buckets, bleach, and plenty of washcloths to clean and disinfect [...]
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Sickness is still in the house. I thought it may have been gone- I was wrong. I still plan to get back to the bottom left quarter of my closet today, the part with the old shoe pile, but it may be some hours from now and I wanted to get a post up yet [...]
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Oh, my, our lives may have just changed forever. Some friends had puppies, well, ok, their dog had puppies- husky & yellow lab mix. The children are smitten, the grown-ups are smitten, except for the slightly tired and crabby issues we’re having today after last night’s whine-fest. What was up with that? Did they program [...]
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Oh, my, our lives may have just changed forever. Some friends had puppies, well, ok, their dog had puppies- husky & yellow lab mix. The children are smitten, the grown-ups are smitten, except for the slightly tired and crabby issues we’re having today after last night’s whine-fest. What was up with that? Did they program [...]
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