In the Midst of It: A Heartful
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Say, hypothetically speaking, that you’re in the car with your one year old, and you arrive at Walmart, at which time she takes one look out the window and joyfully shouts out,”Home!” Would that mean you have a shopping problem?
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The ladies at our church are organizing a wedding dress fashion show for our annual Mother’s Day Tea. So this evening I dug out my wedding dress, and my 16 year old tried it on. This dress is doubly special because it was also my mother’s wedding dress. It’s getting a little yellow, but...
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Lately my 17 month old has been obsessed with the potty chair. I got it out a few weeks ago after she started informing me every time before she went #2. I’ve been lazy and haven’t done anything more with it– she’s really young, after all. But every time she sees it, she feels...
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Here’s a page I did for my oldest daughter. Click on the page to go to a larger view if you want to read the words. I usually cram lots of photos on a page, but along with starting to learn digital scrapbooking, I am experimenting with ideas I read in the book Clean...
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Karen from Chookooloonks asked about everyday things that bring you joy. I thought about my new toy that I heard about on Flip Flops. It is a photo scrapbooking program called LumaPix FotoFusion. I downloaded it the other day and stayed up late last night (yawn) playing. I’ll show you a completed page later...
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So, after dashing off that last post, I headed out to the wilderness (er, my back yard) with my trusty helpers. The three year old was assigned to watch the baby near me, and the rest of kids and I tackled the flowerbed. We have a huge L-shaped flowerbed, one leg of which is...
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So. My daughter is graduating next week– a momentous occasion! Calls for a celebration. We’ve decided to have an open house, with a sundae bar, and invite, oh, 5 dozen or so of our nearest and dearest… Only problem is, our yard is awful. Weeds. Bare patches in the lawn. Overgrown flowerbed. Toys everywhere,...
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I spent most of my ‘free’ time today sorting out the clothes in my little girls’ closet. They have wayyy too many clothes. After a final burst of cleaning at bedtime, I ended up getting their room and closet clean, and three Hefty bags of unneeded things heaped in the hallway to give away....
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