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Houseguests
We have a steady stream of visitors heading eastward from Oregon, again, this summer. *Be our guest, be our guest, put our service to the test…* With Quality Time as my primary Love Language, I feel especially blessed when loved-ones are willing to travel- and use up vacation time– to hang with us. Bestie Courtney & Busy-Bee…
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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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Making a Home
I’m a homemaker. Making and keeping and running our home is a job I actually take pride in. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to share how we strive to maintain an organized, efficient home with a bunch of local high-school Home-Ec students, earlier this week. They returned to tour our house as a field-trip, yesterday afternoon. My friend (the…
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Teacher’s Pets
Welp, the inevitable has happened. I knew this day was coming, but didn’t expect it so soon… Yesterday Firstborn had two math problems that I couldn’t help her with. Even with the teacher’s answer key. We had to save it for Daddy. I suppose that’s to be expected when one breeds with a genius. Fortunately, my ego is…
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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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My Hero
This video has been making the rounds on social media, but it begs repeating… This kid. Can you even handle it? Adorable and aMAZing! More amazing even than Bruce Lee, himself, imo. I love this little five year old from Japan’s obvious dedication to his hero. If you think Bruce Lee is famous here, you should see China. A national hero, his likeness…
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May Flowers
May might very well be my favorite time of year in Montana. And as I especially love holidays, we naturally marked the 5th, on our calendar, as an excuse to get festive… Cinco de Mayo was never particularly marked during my childhood, likely due to the fact that it’s also my baby brother’s birthday. Born when I was a teen,…
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Dustbowl
I have a serious case of yard-envy. It seems we are the only family in our new, rural subdivision who did not finance their landscaping into their mortgage. Ours remains a lifeless dustbowl, but we are steadily earning sweat equity by doing the bulk of the design and labor ourselves. Besides, our plans for our property…
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“An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.” -Charlotte Mason …which reminded me of this precious video from four years ago. “It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
