The other evening hubby and I were playing Apples to Apples Junior with the kids. After three separate rounds of hubby choosing my card (thus giving me a point), and me choosing hubby’s card (thus giving hubby a point), the kids became convinced we were in cahoots. Actually, we just know each other so...
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This week you guys outdid yourselves, telling me stories of people who surprised you with kindness. Reading all those stories convinced me even more of the kind of person I want to be. I ended up choosing two people as my Golden Keyboard winners: Organized Chaos and Ramblin Amblins. Congrats, gals, and thanks everyone...
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This week you guys outdid yourselves, telling me stories of people who surprised you with kindness. Reading all those stories convinced me even more of the kind of person I want to be. I ended up choosing two people as my Golden Keyboard winners: Organized Chaos and Ramblin Amblins. Congrats, gals, and thanks everyone...
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This week you guys outdid yourselves, telling me stories of people who surprised you with kindness. Reading all those stories convinced me even more of the kind of person I want to be. I ended up choosing two people as my Golden Keyboard winners: Organized Chaos and Ramblin Amblins. Congrats, gals, and thanks everyone...
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Or so she called the applesauce she ate at lunch today.
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Today’s theme is Surprised by Kindness. I want to hear your stories of unexpected kindness shown to you. I’ll tell a couple of mine to give you examples. Example #1- At the very start of our very first adoption, a friend I only knew via the internet sent us several hundred dollars — enough...
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“Santa didn’t get me what I wanted, ” declared my four year old soberly at dinner last night. Conversation around the table stopped, and everyone looked her way. “What about your new purple bike?” I asked quickly. “It has training wheels,” she said disdainfully. “I don’t need training wheels.” “Daddy can take them off....
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Christmas morning we heard children thundering out of their beds at 7 am. Yawning, we rolled out of bed ourselves and headed for the coffee pot. Then began the free-for-all. We pushed one couch toward the dining room table to have more space in the living room, and the kids soon had all the...
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…of Christmas, that is! Does this post look extra-bright? Shiny? Crisp? Well, it does from this side of the blog. Why, you ask? Because I got a LAPTOP for Christmas!! (Showing once again that my hubby spoils me completely rotten.) Now if I can only get used to this touchpad ‘mouse’. Gracious, it’s odd....
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There’s an interesting article in Sunday’s New York Times What Should a Billionaire Give– and What Should You? Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton, wrote the article, and he said in part: “We might say that they have a right to spend it on lavish parties, private jets and luxury yachts, or, for...
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