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the symphony

Posted by on Feb 19, 2012 in art & music, family, homeschooling | 1 comment

I have several friends in the Symphony and sometimes I am able to get cheap tickets to their performances. On a spur of the moment decision, I decided to get some $5 tickets and plan a triple date with my friends…can’t beat a $10 date, right? One friend decided they couldn’t go, then the other friend’s husband hurt his back and so they couldn’t come, so just few hours before the concert I was stuck with six tickets. I decided to try to sell them on Facebook. That...

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breakfast in bed

Posted by on Feb 14, 2012 in family | 0 comments

breakfast in bed

This is what I woke up to this morning. What a guy!   He always has some wonderful trick up his sleeve to let the rest of us know how much he loves us. I should be more like him, as I haven’t given Valentine’s Day any thought and now I have only today to create something special for...

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first run

Posted by on Feb 7, 2012 in children, family | 2 comments

We did it. We ran for the first time. Well…not her first time, but my first time in a very long time. Our training schedule for this week is one minute running, two minutes walking, then repeat ten times. I did it. Every single second. I felt like I finished strong. BUT I CAN’T IMAGINE RUNNING FOR LONGER THAN ONE MINUTE AT A TIME. Afterwards, we went to DI (local thrift store) to look for some running clothes for her since the bulk of her sports clothes are cotton and cotton is not...

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the beginning…

Posted by on Feb 7, 2012 in children, family | 2 comments

the beginning…

I have always hated running. I get absolutely no pleasure from running. I have never had a runner’s high or caught my second wind and I have had plenty of chances to do so. My dad was a runner and we entered races all the time, which I invariably won because I am fast and strong and competitive to the max, but I didn’t love it. I loved winning, but not running. I ran track in high school (mostly because it was a way to go on trips every weekend and get out of school on Fridays) and...

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what a week!

Posted by on Feb 5, 2012 in family | 13 comments

Play week. It is a week of great performances, loads of fun, seeing our youth shine, and seeing many, many friends and families at performances. It is also a week of little sleep, food eaten on the run, crazy concession sales, cleaning the play venue again and again and again, helping the actors/actresses do their best, and lots of driving back and forth. This play week was also full of 20+ children in my home, friends and family coming to visit, house projects, my normal iFamily and Gymnastics...

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oooooohhhhhh, such insights!

Posted by on Jan 7, 2012 in books, family | 3 comments

I love family read-aloud time. I love reading high-quality literature with my family and having discussions about what we read. We started The Last Battle a few days ago and though we have read it before, we have never read it as the people we are right now. Each time we read a classic, we are reading a new book because we are new people…and a new family…with new thoughts in our minds and dreams in our hearts. We are facing new challenges and so we see new things in the book. It is...

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some new routines

Posted by on Jan 4, 2012 in family | 4 comments

I struggle with order. I should go to Unorderly Anonymous…except I don’t care about being anonymous. I put my unorderly self out for the world to see all the time. Hmmm, my spell checker says unorderly isn’t a word. I’m still going to use it. Or maybe I should try orderless. That word doesn’t come up flagged, but I like unorderly, it perfectly describes me. Anyway, it is a new year. A time to reevaluate and think through how I can improve my life. We decided to...

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Rewind and Move Forward

Posted by on Dec 31, 2011 in blessings, family, pics | 3 comments

I didn’t get a Christmas Letter (or even a Christmas card) mailed this year. I think it has actually been several years since I have done so. I love receiving letters and pictures from friends and family, but it such an incredibly difficult task for me, that I gave up somewhere around the time of Annesley’s birth…which would make sense since she would have been four weeks old at Christmas of 2008 and I wasn’t up to doing much of anything. It isn’t the writing that...

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decorating for christmas

Posted by on Dec 3, 2011 in christmas, family, pics | 6 comments

decorating for christmas

We finally got our decorations (and by decorations, I mean three nativities and lots of books, not anything fancy-schmancy) and tree up today and had our first night of our month-long Christmas devotionals. We are supposed to start on the 1st, but on that night, I was still sewing our advent calendar and came home in the middle of the night to a sleeping house. Last night we bought the tree and got it set up, but it was 10 p.m. by the time that happened, so we went to bed and put off decorating...

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surely death is better than this?

Posted by on Nov 29, 2011 in family | 3 comments

Or maybe just a morphine drip? It all started in the wee hours of Saturday morning with Keziah hobbling to the bathroom and throwing up. She proceeded to throw up for many hours after and through a brilliant plan of laying on the bathroom floor in a heap, she hit the toilet every time. In between puking episodes, she would moan and whimper and we would try to help her as best we could, but she is a pretty self-sufficient sick person so she didn’t need much, just her water bottle refilled...

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