Category: Posts
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Re-Adoption
On Monday we re-adopted Little Man. It’s not what you think… November being National Adoption Awareness month, a local adoption/foster-care/orphan-prevention non-profit organized a re-adoption ceremony and celebration before a judge who is a local champion of both international and domestic adoption (and whose joy in presiding over the hearing was evident, pun intended). An attorney– fellow adoptive mom who…
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Signs of Life
Scores of deer move in from the back forty to lurk around our neighborhood in the darkness, each night. Operating covert tactical missions, they silently snoop from the shadows, brazenly peering into windows while we lie unconscious in our beds. It’s creepy, really… reminiscent of an M. Night Shyamalan film, evidence of their stalking plain in…
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Mommy Musings
Firstborn was the unlucky recipient of a nasty curling iron burn, yesterday– her first. It was sad, but as a child of the 80’s/90’s I also recognize it as sort of a rite of passage for my sweet daughter… We chuckled as I retold of branding my own forehead numerous times in my prepubescent quest for The Perfect Bangs. As a…
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Sugar High
Yesterday I busted the girls literally fighting over Halloween candy… … so I levied a hefty “mommy tax“, confiscating the remaining Snickers and Milky Ways for use in a Thanksgiving dessert. (see recipe below) We also pillaged their stash for use as candy organelles on their edible cell model– the girls have started on a new Anatomy…
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Novemberists
Snow! Yesterday, the first flakes of the season arrived to the greater Bozeman area. By this time, most years, snow is old news. We are delighted it has finally arrived. Ask me how I feel about it come March. The kiddos romped with neighbor-friends until after dark while I watched from the window, stirring a big pot…
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Semi Charmed Life
Our kiddos had a pretty rockin’ Halloween this year: Harvest Night at Awanas Wednesday… an enormous Halloweeny package in the mail from Auntie on Thursday… after-school trick-or-treating down Main Street on Friday… and pumpkin patch, carving, and trick-or-treating with Daddy (I stay home and pass out candy) on the 31st. Sorting and graphing their spoils, Tootsie Rolls…
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Homebodies
Last week was exhausting. Too exhausting to try and document until now. In addition to core studies at home, I regularly shuttle the critters to speech therapy, piano, flute, general music, art class, PE, 4-H, and Awanas. I try my best to consolidate all of that into three days of driving, to protect our “at…
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Fry Night: A Cautionary Tale
Consider this post a warning to my Oregon friends who also know my (much older) sister, Bethany… Should she and her husband invite you over for “fry night”, my advice is to bow out gracefully. Actually, run– escape while you still can, lest they ensnare you in their web of deep-fried goodness. Once your eyes have been…
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Grindstone: Back To It.
Vacation hangovers, gotta love ’em… said no mom, ever. Seriously, the battle (“WHAT?! We have to do MATH today? Ughhhhh…”) to resume our regularly scheduled programming is the primary reason I elect to homeschool year round. I tried to covertly sneak in school whilst vacationing, in hopes it would lessen the strife upon returning home… Alternating Disney DVDs with chapters read aloud…
