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Weekend Whatnot
It was a good weekend. Sunny and rainy and cool and warm. Yep. It was all that in the span of one weekend. I’m feeling pretty random so I think that’s what you’ll be seeing here. I think a twelve-year-old wrote the most recent version of Transformers. (Actually, I think a transformer wrote it. Twelve-year-olds are more clever.) Have you…
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Piper Finnian. The Interview is Back.
You guys. I haven’t done an interview with the kids in forever. And they used to be so much fun. So I’m wishing you and yours a happy Friday and a stellar weekend and I’m asking mine a couple of questions and writing down what she says . . . . Finish this sentence – My name is Piper Finnian…
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Laughter – our favorite survival tool.
Next to grace, if I have to pick one characteristic that has saved our marriage and healed our hearts one piece of the puzzle to plumb the depths of parenting woes and big life decisions one thing that has brought us from the depths and placed us at the heights the one argument changer and situation switcher it has been…
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this girl o’ mine.
Braids down her back. Soft smile and her favorite oversized green sweatshirt. She’s beautiful. And right now we both enjoy this simple pure camaraderie. I want to hold it in my hands forever. To push pause. I dread a future look of scorn or a heavy sigh directed at my back. My heart already hurts at the eventual pulling away…
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True Colors
Kids draw and color during their Sunday School classes. It’s perfectly normal behavior. A regular routine. At our church the completed coloring sheets are frequently featured on a thin bulletin board strip on the hall walls outside of their classrooms. Last week our friend sent us a text. It said something like this: I was walking down the hall at…
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I’m finally remembering to complete the giveaway.
Well guys. I told you I couldn’t keep up. But seriously – I totally forgot about my own tiny music giveaway! So. Today I am taking care of a few details. Like – giving away a song. And the song goes to …………. Alicia! I really hope you like it. Alicia – please send me your e-mail address and I…
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Making Terrariums
After we finished reading The Magician’s Nephew (which I just love, by the way – remember Digory our dog? That’s the book his name came from. Like so many other names, I tired first to name one of our children Digory but with no success) the curriculum suggested several ways to create your own magical world. We landed on terrariums…
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four important words.
The other night at dinner Kevin said to the kids, “Hey guys. I want to teach you four incredibly important words.” I honestly cannot recall if we were chatting about passing the salt correctly or climbing trees or using inside voices. I just know he said he had four important words he wanted them to learn. And so we all…
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At the seashore
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. – Rachel Carson To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there? -Walt Whitman For whatever we lose (like a you or…
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Afternoon Tea Like Tumnus
Last week, in our daily readings from the The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Lucy entered the magical woods of Narnia. She met Mr. Tumnus and enjoyed a tea at the faun’s cozy home. In honor of that special fictional tea, we too celebrated a tea with friends who are also reading their way through the Narnia series this…
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the daily struggle
Oh you guys. I just cannot keep up. It’s teaching five kids school, feeding seven people three meals a day, maintaining my little side online job, doing laundry for seven people, sleeping, reading, living that’s really keeping me busy friends. I’m not complaining. More like explaining. (I just hope you all will still like me and drop by and visit…
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A Weekend Round Up and A Tiny Music Giveaway
So much happening in the past few days. An overload of fun and friends. Some long time buddies trekked it over from Charlotte and we all met at our favorite apple orchard and picked apples – en masse! The next day our family loaded a bunch of those North Carolina apples in the car to share the love…
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Before I Go To Sleep. Before You Go To Sleep. Some Stuff To Tell You.
You guys. Wednesdays are our family’s busiest days. I don’t have any big words for today. I’m pretty exhausted and the kids and I made oatmeal cream pies yesterday for tonight’s group dinner’s dessert and I really just want to go sit in the best chair in our living room and quietly eat one of those remaining delicacies in the incredibly…
