From the monthly archives:
Really. It’s done. Gone. In the bag. It’s about this time every year that the panic sets in. The walls of impending doom (snow and ice) seem to come closing in on me and I feel an urgent need to “seize the day”, this day and every last one of them until the snow comes [...]
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Better late than never, right? It’s still Monday for a few more minutes… The counting of the multitudes of His blessings continues, as if I could ever actually count them. I may have lettered on my high school Math Team, twice, but I could never count high enough to count my blessings in anything close [...]
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went to a funeral picked up another fruit order went to another chiropractor appointment staying (too) busy taking teenager to soccer practices pizza night with family Mr. Extraordinary’s birthday successfully imitated the best cranberry chicken pasta salad I’ve ever tasted after my husband brought some home from a catered event at work, my new favorite summer [...]
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Life has changed, I don’t even really know how, in what way, but it’s changed. My husband’s words hung heavy in the air, matching the weight of the mood in the room. A little more than 24 hours earlier, a friend of my husband’s, a husband, a father, died in a tragic accident right before [...]
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When I first undertook the task of teaching our oldest child to read, I was so intimidated. Teaching a child to read seemed like such a huge and daunting thing, I mean, learning to read is so life-changing, so empowering, so not something to take lightly. I didn’t take it lightly. While I didn’t take [...]
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I canned my first Peach Jam yesterday. I’m really looking forward to the taste of summer on some warm biscuits, fresh out of the oven, on a chilly fall or winter morning, or spread across a hot buttered pancake. Oh, yum! We’ve been getting a weekly bulk fruit order throughout the summer and it’s been [...]
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Or, more appropriately titled, “12 Reasons Why WE Homeschool”. 1. They’re our children. We believe that, ultimately, it’s our responsibility to raise our children to adulthood and overseeing their education is a big part of that. Our children don’t belong to the state and they don’t belong to any village- they live in the state [...]
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