Don’t let the sleepy pictures fool you. This kid is as much work as any baby. A baby with teeth. Who can run really fast. And likes the feel of leather in her teeth. But like any baby, her cuteness saves her. Even at 3 AM when I am out in the back yard...
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Today is the first day of Christmas break at our house– oh the loveliness of it! Last night I was thinking how nice it would be to sleep in. But at 7:45 a kitten ran across my pillow, and two more thundered across my bedroom floor on the way to my bathroom where they...
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Look at our new baby! ~~
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Seems like I have the hardest time writing on Mondays. This morning it was the usual painful transition back to the school week after the weekend. Both students and teacher were less than enthusiastic.  Christmas break starts in a week for us. We’ll still be doing a few things (reading, some educational games) but...
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My post for today is over at the Zehlahlum Family blog.  Jamey is a fellow adoptive mom, and the mother of three teeny kiddos.  She and I did a Q&A last week, which she posted on her blog today.  Go check it out, and tell her hi!
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She walks to the front of the church, 12 years old, the daughter of my cousin.  Tucking her hair behind her ear and picking up her mike, she begins to sing.  Though her hands speak of nerves, her voice is quietly confident, unassuming, equally sure on high notes and low. The kind of voice...
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Along with doing random garden-finishing projects and keeping people reasonably clean, fed, and groomed, I passed my time this week by: teaching 4 kids to add positive and negative integers, which included a goodly dose of me banging my head on the nearest wall.   I THINK/HOPE/PRAY they’re finally getting it. making space in...
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Most of the time we have our cats outside, but with the kittens being so little, they’re currently house cats. A major problem with indoor cats is the litter box. When we had our first house and our first cat, we stuck the litter box behind the couch, out of sight of our toddler....
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Morning begins with kids asking to go skating, but I can’t see past work that needs doing, and so I reluctantly say no.  Instead we dive into bedroom-cleaning and school-schedule-planning, neither of which seem to progress well. But two loads of laundry cycle through, and the living room gets vacuumed.  So there is some...
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Ever thought about what makes your family ‘super’?  Here’s what I wrote.  And I’d love to hear what makes your own family amazing.
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