Category: Posts
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Ours is lacking in both silver bells and cockle shells… Here in Montana, if it’s not the deer leveling the garden it’s the early frost. Our bounty of tomatoes was decimated, there will be no canning this year. Live and learn– at least we are not starving pioneers, Costco is just ten minutes down the…
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Timehop c.1983
32 years ago today my first best friend was born. My sister. Back when we still thought that Little Man would be a Little Sister, I wrote this piece that shares a smidgen of my heart on the importance of sisters… Reposted from Jan. 2013: Our girls hail from a long line of sisters. My paternal grandmother…
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Heavy Hearts
Yesterday was a somber day. The girls started their extracurricular classes at the local private school again, typically a joyous event. But can you see it? Their puffy, red eyes and forced smiles? Earlier that morning our sweet Sassy kitten passed away at the veterinarian’s office. She took a sudden turn, and, though we rushed, faded away in my…
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You’ve Got Mail
I love mail. Like Steve from Blue Clue’s, I look forward to checking the mailbox with unreasonable giddiness each day. Our friendly mail carrier knows which small box out of the hefty bank of them belongs to us. She knows my kids, and she knows my sexy minivan. Postage and stationary are standard line items in our household budget, unique or…
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Dear Kitten,
Have you seen these videos? We can’t get enough of them in our house. Lest our Alpha Kitty, Mao, feel usurped by our newest addition, I thought I would give her a bit of public praise today… The fearsome huntress’ season tally is currently standing at: 18 voles, 5 birds, and one giant grasshopper– that we know about.…
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Little Man, Lately
This post is all about our incredibly bright Little Man, Smarty-Pants McGee. You’ve been warned. Because biologically I had zero to do with it, I feel I can boast unabashed… He’s rocking his weekly speech therapy appointments, astounding the pathologist at each visit. This week she decided to see if he recognized any letters of the…
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Project: Orphan Kitten
Hi, I’m Mia and I’m an addict. I cannot resist a furry critter. Meet Sassy. This poor girl (we think) was found, cold and starving with her littermates, stuck in the wall of an old farm outbuilding. We suspect mama kitty was hit by a car or eaten by a coyote. The most vocal of the bunch, I…
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How to Homeschool Through Summer (without being the meanest mom ever)
‘Tis the season to field the question: “When does school start back up for you guys?” Truth is, we have kept an abbreviated homeschool schedule throughout the summer months. Daily reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic, in addition to the occasional history and science lessons, have kept us on track and will (God willing!) prevent our typical summer atrophy…
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Me Time
This week Handsome Husband graciously allowed me to slip away overnight with the girls. We zipped up to Flathead Lake for a quick visit with dear friends. I say allowed not because I am an indecisive, delicate flower of a wife (ha!), but because it was Husband’s sacrifice that made the mini-adventure possible. As we have thoroughly…
