Category: Adventure
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Birthday Bike-a-Palooza
Center Sister turned 8 years old this weekend. Tempus fugit. Seems like just yesterday she was the giggly, silly infant we nicknamed Goose. With an unfinished mud-pit for a yard, and a house full of extended family in from out of state, a party at home just wasn’t a reasonable option. We were committed to keeping…
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Cousin Camp
This week my mom, sister, and three nieces drove out from Oregon for some extended family togetheness. We fondly referred to our time together as Cousin Camp, as it was jam-packed with adventure, bonding, and general kumbaya… We had a blast showing them around our region, enjoying much of Big Sky Country’s great outdoors. Our guests enjoyed their first trip…
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Field Trip
It’s for good reason that I’ve been M-I-A (<—-see what I did there?) for the last week: The fam and I just returned from an epic field trip… We did The Disney Thing. It was a blast. We hadn’t done a Disney trip since the girls were 1 & 3, and Little Man obviously had never been.…
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Day Trippers
Happy Mother’s Day! It’s not quite 8am and I’m tranquilly sipping my hot coffee, in a sunbeam, in solitude, as Handsome Husband and kiddos craft me a special breakfast. Picture perfect, right? What I failed to mention is that I’ve been up since 6:30, already unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, washed and folded laundry, stripped sheets off beds, and cleaned up a potty-training disaster.…
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Feeding Their Dreams
When I was a girl, I dreamed of swimming as a mermaid, with manatees (my favorite animals). I suppose Crosby, Stills, & Nash were right, in that we often unintentionally pass our own dreams on to our children… “feed them on your dreams, the ones they picked, the ones you’ll know by…” I won’t take credit for sparking the imagination of…
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Weekend Warriors
Firstborn’s Lowry Ten was a raging success. She and Handsome Husband had a whirlwind adventure in Texas, this weekend, to celebrate both of their recent birthdays with old friends from Oregon. They returned home tuckered out and grinning ear to ear, Firstborn’s voice hoarse from screaming on the roller coasters. Meanwhile, back in Montana, Center Sister, Little Man,…
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Lowry Ten
Handsome Husband’s birthday last week officially ushered in our household’s busy birthday season. Firstborn was actually due on Husband’s birthday, back in 2005, but she’s evidently as punctual as her mother. She waited six more days before making her grand entrance. Today we celebrate her tenth birthday. Ten. 10. 1-0. Gulp. Hitting this milestone– a full decade, double digits– warranted SERIOUS…
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Cheers to Birth-Week
It’s Handsome Husband’s birth week! That’s right, I said week. I heart birthdays, big time. Naturally, they last longer than just one day in our house, BUT if you do happen to see him on Friday be sure to wish him a happy Might-As-Well-Be-Fortieth. The first of his birthdays that we spent together I wasn’t even aware of it until days later…
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Travel Like a Pro (book review)
Though I’m certainly no globe-trotter, I’m still quite passionate about travel. I hope to expose our children to as much of God’s creation as possible. To rouse in them an appreciation for His majesty, creativity, and care. More than ecology or topography, I desire for them to experience humanity— as we are all so varied, yet each made…
