Category: Posts
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Praised Be
Feeling especially grateful for the abundance of blessing in our lives this year, we opted to celebrate Thanksgiving not once but twice. My youngest, newlywed sister (alongside her groom) hosted for the first time at their new house, then Handsome Husband and I later hosted his family at our place. Let us come before His…
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Autumn Equinox
Chlorophyll lacking, flamboyant kaleidoscope– foliage ablaze. (An impromptu haiku-collab during a recent excursion through a particularly picturesque tree-lined street. The Willamette Valley’s amazing, come autumn; eat your heart out, New England.)
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Be True to Your School
We’re back at homeschool for our eighth straight year– now with a working/driving highschool Sophomore, an always-dancing 8th-grader in braces, an exceedingly tall (and inquisitive) 3rd-grader, a perpetually befuddled teacher-mom who can’t wrap her brain around how fast time is flying, and a super handsome, stoic school principal/math proctor working from home alongside us. Sophomore:…
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Beach Blanket Bingo
As one last late-summer hurrah, we recently joined Husband’s folks and siblings at the southernmost beach-town in Oregon. My inlaws treated us to a long weekend at their favorite oceanside rental from which we combed the seashore, gathered shells, explored nearby trails, played games, soaked in the (two!) hot tubs, and broke bread as one…
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Summer Vale
It was the briefest of summers. From tardy arrival due to viral pandemic to abrupt, early end from raging inferno and the suffocating ash of a million smoldering acres. Simple pleasures, a slower pace; milestones and mini-vacays… basketball and bicycles, manicures and sleepovers, a first job and a driver’s permit. This, then, is our fond…
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Books Recently Consumed
The following are snapshots of our most recent reads– because reading’s just about one of the only pastimes that persists when viruses and wildfires thwart all other best-laid plans. What should I read next?
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M-I-A (work work work work work)
Despite social distance and quarantine, this has been my workingest summer since I’ve been a mom. The real-estate market is hopping and I just wanted to share a few snapshots from this hectic season for posterity, and as an explanation for why I’ve been M-I-A from this blog for the bulk of the summer. As…
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Wolf Pack
This summer’s been a weird one, with limitations on where, when, and how we can travel, but I think our family’s done a fine job of adventuring within the metes of those restrictions and storing up a whole host of fun memories despite them. Together with our extended family, we recently zipped up to the…
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Girls’ Getaway
Recently I was grateful to sneak away for an adventure and rest-filled girls’ trip to Central Oregon with Handsome Husband’s sister and mother. At the suggestion of my youngest brother who once worked there as a poolside waiter, we stayed at Pronghorn Resort; and even though we might’ve been the only non-golfing patrons present, we…
