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June Birthday Parade
June’s always a busy birthday-month in our house, rivaled only by April… In addition to marking our anniversary and Father’s Day (we celebrated both in Prince Edward Island), we also have five birthdays in our extended family and several friends we celebrate, as well. Husband spoiled me royally on my day, which did soften the…
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A New England, Maritime Tour (our bonus vacay)
When Husband was plotting our literary pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island, he quickly discovered that direct flights to the island were pretty spendy. Flying into Halifax, Nova Scotia, from where we could take the ferry over, would be considerably less costly; and cheaper still were flights out of major hub Logan International in Boston. When…
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Green Gables Literary Tour
We’ve just returned home from a glorious vacation– a pilgrimage back to my mother’s homeland, Prince Edward Island, for a sentimental sabbatical and literary field-trip to cap off our homeschool year. For a week in Green Gables I’m going to do absolutely nothing but run free in a green world of summer. (Anne of Windy Poplars)…
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The Breakfast Club
I’m emptying my camera roll of the last few months’ homeschool activities– to put a bow on our year, for posterity’s sake… Our homeschool’s comprised of a Breakfast Club of characters: A jock (Little Man), a rebel (Firstborn), a princess (Center Sister), a brain (Husband), and a basket case (me). Theatre: Tidepools & Aquarium with…
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Tweenager
Center Sister turned TWELVE today and I can’t get over how she’s growing before my eyes. On her first birthday she perched atop my hip delighting in the live baby lambs that frolicked in our backyard during her barnyard bash. This past year she surpassed me in height and all she wanted to do to…
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Garden Party
How’s a family to bless a hip Grandma on her birthday when it seems she’s already got everything she needs? Why, slave labor in the garden, of course! Our fearsome “inmate crew” descended upon Grandma Tina’s garden bearing flowers, seeds, bark, sustenance, and gumption aplenty. BYOS[shovels] We couldn’t have ordered better weather– it was sunny…
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Fudge-a-Mania
In addition to immersing in all things Lucy Maude Montgomery, I’m presently reading classic Judy Blume tomes with Little Man and he is all about Farley Drexel Hatcher– aka Fudge. The only thing better than a good book is a good book series! It’s precious to revisit characters I grew up with and introduce them…
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Hard Knock Life
Back in January, Firstborn was thrilled to land a role in another local theatre production– this time the musical classic, Annie. She was cast as French maid, Annette, servant to Daddy Warbucks. I gotta tell you, it blessed me to see her in that role, cleaning compulsively. I told her she could “rehearse” around the…
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Motherlode
Sometimes it feels like I’m surrounded by mothers: Mom, step-mom, mother-in-law, grandmother, spiritual mentor-mothers, a sister who’s a mom, a multitude of magnificent mommy friends… Mothers make the world go round and I’m blessed to be surrounded by a pack of them who inspire, instruct, and encourage. “As iron sharpens iron, so one [mother] sharpens…
