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Author: Mia

  • Project: Orphan Kitten

    Project: Orphan Kitten

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    Hi, I’m Mia and I’m an addict. I cannot resist a furry critter. Meet Sassy. This poor girl (we think) was found, cold and starving with her littermates, stuck in the wall of an old farm outbuilding. We suspect mama kitty was hit by a car or eaten by a coyote. The most vocal of the bunch, I…

  • How to Homeschool Through Summer (without being the meanest mom ever)

    How to Homeschool Through Summer (without being the meanest mom ever)

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    ‘Tis the season to field the question: “When does school start back up for you guys?” Truth is, we have kept an abbreviated homeschool schedule throughout the summer months. Daily reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic, in addition to the occasional history and science lessons, have kept us on track and will (God willing!) prevent our typical summer atrophy…

  • Me Time

    Me Time

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    This week Handsome Husband graciously allowed me to slip away overnight with the girls. We zipped up to Flathead Lake for a quick visit with dear friends. I say allowed not because I am an indecisive, delicate flower of a wife (ha!), but because it was Husband’s sacrifice that made the mini-adventure possible. As we have thoroughly…

  • Visitors

    Visitors

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    Few material objects bring me truer joy than an Oregon license plate in our driveway. The Lowrys stayed two nights with us, then hosted us one night in The Presidential Suite of their family’s West Yellowstone time-share. (The presidential reference is note-worthy because their kids are all named after former US presidents.) It was such a nice…

  • Warming A House: 8 Great Gift Ideas

    Warming A House: 8 Great Gift Ideas

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    I’m talking about what I know and love again today– brace yourselves! Even though I prefer to host birthday parties sans the customary gift exchange, I love, love, love giving meaningful gifts… Having purchased countless house-warming gifts for clients during my professional years as a Realtor, I have gobs of experience in selecting simple, thoughtful items…

  • Summer, In Snapshots

    Summer, In Snapshots

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    I’ve decided that instead of posting 8 million different blog entries consisting entirely of photographs this summer, I would condense them all into one tidy slideshow right here, regularly updating it with our latest summer snapshots. Go ahead and imagine the song “Holiday Road” playing to these photos…

  • What To Expect When You’re Expecting… To Buy A House

    What To Expect When You’re Expecting… To Buy A House

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    This blog has ADD. The single common denominator betwixt the eclectic array of topics is my crazy-train of thought. But the pros online say to blog about what you know– topics that you have some degree of expertise in. Well I’m not an expert at much– more of a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none kind of girl… Except, perhaps, in one area: The…

  • Sunday Drive

    Sunday Drive

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    What’s a family to do when they ACTUALLY make it out the door for church on time (for once) only to realize, en route, that their youngest is quite snot-nosed and feverish? (hint: don’t go anyway, thereby infecting the entire nursery populous, thankyouverymuch) Answer: Sunday drive.

  • A Case for Giftless Birthday Parties

    A Case for Giftless Birthday Parties

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    Little Man turned three this weekend. yay! sob. hooray! weep. Last year I shared why his birthday will likely always be a bit of a bittersweet anniversary, but this year those sentiments were compounded further by the sobering realization that: 3 = no longer a baby. We hosted a simple backyard celebration with our dear neighbors (old and new), a dash…