My house usually starts out in the morning fairly clean. But by the end of the school morning, the living room is always a mess: schoolbooks and pencils and Barbies and blocks, all in a mish-mash. The mess might drive me nuts except that I know right after lunch, everyone will spring into action...
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Possibly my most eclectic link list yet Vintage Frugalities - my grocery frugality posts mirror lots of this advice Inside the mind of a marathoner — not that I’m thinking of running a marathon Training kids to work — this is how my mom taught me to clean a bathroom — I use this...
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For the next few months I’ll be participating in a monthly blogging project called Faith of Our Children with several other mom-bloggers. This month we’re talking about the impact of traditions on our kids’ faith. When I think about traditions, the image that comes first to my mind is Christmas eve at my mom’s...
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Gypsy Mama has something called 5 Minute Friday, where she gives a writing prompt and asks people to set a timer and just write, no editing. This week’s theme was Backwards, and I set out to give it a try. Except then one kid needed something, and another kid needed something, and with at...
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The winner of ‘The Americans on D-Day’ is commenter #32, Christy. Congrats, Christy!
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I’m definitely still catching up from vacation over here. Here are some of the last pictures we took there– I’ve been meaning to edit them for quite awhile! As usual, you can click on them to enlarge. Life is hopping around here. Our son turned 13 last week, and our daughter turns 9 next...
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This year we chose to stay on the southern coast of Oregon, for two reasons. First, we were hoping for sunshine and warmer weather—we definitely had some lovely weather while we were there. And second, we wanted to be close enough to take a day trip to the California redwoods. The day that we...
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(Click on photos to enlarge. Don’t miss the one in the 4th row, right side.)
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