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  • A Book Jamboree

    A Book Jamboree

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    My nuclear family exchanged twenty-four books betwixt us this Christmas– we’re a jolly bookish lot, it seems. The following’s a smattering of those titles, plus a few additional reads we’ve recently enjoyed… To: Handsome Husband; From: Heart-Eyed Wifey To: Heart-Eyed Wifey; From: Handsome Husband To: Mama Mia; From: Papadapolis (father-in-law) To: Firstborn; From: Your Bookish Parents To Firstborn;…

  • Noel

    Noel

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    Merry Christmas from me & mine to you & yours. We’re grateful to have been able to celebrate the birth of our Savior, God’s redemption in the form of a baby, with joyful traditions and feasting. Our Christmas jammies tradition is one of my very favorite. My step-mom was doing this before it was cool.…

  • A Charlie Brown Christmas

    A Charlie Brown Christmas

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    In early Fall, Firstborn auditioned for a role in a local production of A Charlie Brown Christmas. She was cast as Violet Brown, and a rigorous rehearsal schedule ensued. It was a big, several months commitment from the whole family (memorizing lines, learning songs & dances, driving across town several times a week) but one…

  • True Confessions from a Working Homeschool Mom

    True Confessions from a Working Homeschool Mom

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    Little known fact about this frumpy homeschool mom: I have a fancy-pants professional past-life; I’ve been a Realtor for seventeen years. You’d never guess it from looking at me now, leading field trips in Birkenstocks, 19-digit library card number memorized, but I used to wear business suits every day and drive a zippy sports car. I…

  • Grandma Norah

    Grandma Norah

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    Today’s the second anniversary of my Grandma’s passing. I miss her every day.

  • Ocean’s Nine

    Ocean’s Nine

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    A rag-tag group of nine notorious scallywags recently took over the Oregon Coast Aquarium for an impromptu field trip: My much older sister, m’self, my three, her three, and the ringleader of our syndicate, Grandma Tina. (Our zoo membership provided free admission for the entire month of November.) The weather was so lovely that we…

  • Feasting, Hall-Decking, & Hustlin’

    Feasting, Hall-Decking, & Hustlin’

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    For the first time in nearly a decade, we ventured over the mountains to feast with Husband’s folks for Thanksgiving. Once home, we availed ourselves of a stately conifer and set to decking the halls for Christmas.   Besides merry-making, hall-decking, and shuttling offspring hither and yon to activities, I’ve been reading even more than usual…

  • Giving Thanks

    Giving Thanks

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    Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever. -1 Chronicles 16:34 “… set apart the last Thursday of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.” -Abraham Lincoln A brief account of things I’m particularly grateful for:  “Summer days are…

  • The Misadventures of Home-Education

    The Misadventures of Home-Education

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    Sometimes homeschool isn’t all lollipops and roses, read-alouds and kumbaya… … Sometimes a routine car-ride requires extra division in the back seat. … Sometimes compliant completion of copy work requires extra coercion. … Sometimes it takes three tries to find a suitable film adaptation of Shakespeare’s MacBeth, as the 1970’s rendition turns out to be a…