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Summer In a Jar

08.17.2010 Uncategorized

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 so much [...]

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12 Reasons To Homeschool

08.13.2010 Homeschool

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 and [...]

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Giant Bubble Wands In Action

08.12.2010 Uncategorized

We’re going to have to do this more often!

Have you blown any big bubbles yet?

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How To Make a Super Bubble Wand

08.11.2010 Uncategorized

Remember these?

I learned how to make these giant bubble wands way back when I was a kid. Okay, it wasn’t really that long ago, I mean, not like the black and white days when my parents were kids (I wasn’t the only kid who actually thought the world was black and white in “the olden days”, am [...]

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Multitude Monday 491-515

08.09.2010 Multitude Monday

491. three weeks in a row of Monday night date nights with Mr. Extraordinary!
492. finding a night that actually seems to work
493. communing with my other half
494. seeking and finding new depth in our most important earthly relationship
495. conversations going way beyond “how was your day?”

496. a decision to “camp” more, electric 4-slot toaster and [...]

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Saturday Snapshots

08.07.2010 Saturday Snapshots

My strawberry lemonade birthday cake

We continued our tradition of attending Braham Pie Day and not actually eating any pie, but the gyros were delish!

Pie Day Posies

I adore these super-colored daisies!

Pie, pie, and more pie…

Pie Day Painted Ladies

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It’s My Birthday And I’ll Cry If I Want To

08.05.2010 Uncategorized

You would cry too if it happened to you…
Or not, you’re probably a much stronger person than I am.
Actually, I’m not crying. It’s really more of a pathetic whimper. When you have crazy allergy sinus headaches that set off nasty migraine headaches, crying really is not a good idea, it just makes the [...]

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Ultrasound This Morning

08.02.2010 Uncategorized

We have a heartbeat!
Just one.
(Did you miss the news?)
We, and by we I mean I, also have what the radiologist called “debris” and what he said could have been a twin… We’ve heard “possible vanishing twin” before. It seems that more often than not my body has released 2 eggs. Twice I’ve cramped and bled [...]

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Saturday Snapshots

07.31.2010 Saturday Snapshots

Our days have been busy, with busier days ahead- if that can even be possible. Well, I’ve looked at my calendar, it is possible.
Summer is flying by way too fast.
I woke this morning to our Gracie singing “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”. I kid you not. I put a stop to that at [...]

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