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  • To Read or Not to Read

    To Read or Not to Read

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    Some of my most recent reads and impressions thereof– I’m certain I’ve missed a few but wanted to document regardless.

  • Feels Like Summer

    Feels Like Summer

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    It’s hard to believe that summer’s come to an end, but all in all it’s been a great one. We joined a neighborhood pool, went on several vacations, and Firstborn got a job at a local amusement park. We went to the beach, spent time with friends & family, and Center Sister kept up with…

  • New Beginnings

    New Beginnings

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    My kids started school today… 11th, 9th, and 4th grades, respectively. And for the first time in a long time, I’m not their teacher. The choice to enroll our kids in traditional School was painful but obvious… I spent Spring and Summer spinning in anxious circles attempting to prep & plan another homeschool year, considering…

  • School Wrap

    School Wrap

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    It’s nearly the end of summer and I realized never put a bloggy bow on my kiddos’ school year, but jumped right into the deep-end of summer without really pausing to document. We didn’t know it at the time, but last year appears to have been our final year of homeschool– which makes me especially…

  • Ballpark Birthday

    Ballpark Birthday

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    For his ninth birthday this year, Little Man enjoyed a few of his very favorite things: Sushi, swimming, panda bears, and BASEBALL. After church in the morning and a chill afternoon, he took our extended family “out to a ball game” on a late summer evening where we first tailgated in the parking lot (cake…

  • A Very Merry Unbirthday

    A Very Merry Unbirthday

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    Since Center Sister turned fourteen while we were vacationing for our twentieth anniversary a month ago, we deferred her friend-festivities a few weeks out to this month… Keeping things chill for her fave crew of teens, we booked a private party at the neighborhood pool we joined this summer and pumped up our menagerie of…

  • Biggest Little Birthday

    Biggest Little Birthday

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    In an attempt at ignoring my recent rounded, rather large birthday, I suggested to Handsome Husband that we sneak away with the kids for a bit of adventure. He upped the ante and booked us a road-trip to the Biggest Little City in the World and the third largest lake in the nation. It was…

  • Aloha Anniversary

    Aloha Anniversary

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    Twenty years ago I promised to have and to hold this handsome fella. Score! We were young and madly in love, and after the officiant proclaimed “you may kiss your bride” I tried to steal a second smooch, to the amusement of the entire congregation. Two decades later, I’m still a smitten-kitten and always eager…

  • Camp Gramps

    Camp Gramps

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    For Christmas, my sisters and I gifted our folks a preplanned Memorial weekend trip camping together with all of our husbands, kids, and dogs. We originally booked the lakeside campground that our family’s frequented for generations (my grandparents took their honeymoon there and both sets of THEIR parents famously crashed it), but an unforeseen infestation…