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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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friends, food, and fhe

Posted by on Dec 13, 2011 in christmas, pics | 1 comment

friends, food, and fhe

We have some dear friends, the Lamoreaux family, who invited us over for a night of festivity. They prepared a full-course Christmas dinner with turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cabbage salad, green beans, cranberry relish, carrots, rolls, pumpkin pie, and Jace’s signature dish, pecan pie. All homemade with healthy ingredients (except the pecan pie) and all delicious. I must get her recipe for cranberry relish…it was the most fantabulous cranberry dish I have ever had. I wish...

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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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bantu knots

Posted by on Nov 17, 2011 in children, pics | 2 comments

bantu knots

Keziah has been looking for a way to get curls in her hair for a while now. We have used curling irons, store-bought soft curlers, rag, and sock buns, all with varying degrees of success. Her hair is thick and it will curl, but the curl has a really hard time staying put. This week we tried Bantu knots. We googled it and watched a few YouTube movies and then we set to work. Some sites recommend putting in two to six knots, but we put in sixteen in the hopes of having luscious curls. We read...

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fiar: the clown of God

Posted by on Nov 10, 2011 in FIAR, homeschooling, language & literature, pics | Comments Off

fiar: the clown of God

Fisher and I are reading The Clown of God by Tomie de Paulo this week. Tomie is one of our favorite authors. If you haven’t read The Art Lesson and Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs, run to your nearest library and check them out today! They are such lovely ways to connect big ideas into our little ones’ hearts. So far, we have we learned how to say “arrivederci” and that it means “till we meet again” in Italian. Ironically, he can say it pretty well! We have...

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this face

Posted by on Nov 8, 2011 in children, pics | 1 comment

this face

I love it.

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pumpkin carving

Posted by on Nov 8, 2011 in family, pics | 7 comments

pumpkin carving

A few weeks ago I attended the wedding of my cousin Josh and came home with six pumpkins from the luncheon decorations. I have never carved a pumpkin. Gasp! How is it possible to have reached this stage of my life and never done something so basic as carving a pumpkin? I don’t know, I just know I never have. Maybe I thought it was too hard or too gross or too what??? Well, whatever I thought, I was wrong…it was fun and messy and I am pretty sure everyone will want to do it next...

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make it for maggie wrap-up

Posted by on Oct 30, 2011 in favorite posts, make it for maggie, pics, save the world projects | 2 comments

make it for maggie wrap-up

Katherine and I are grateful and filled with love for each and every participant in Make It For Maggie. Words cannot do justice to the feelings we have in our hearts after yesterday’s event. I walked through the day with a smile on my face and oodles of gratitude in my heart at the greatness of soul that was demonstrated by our community. It was a privilege to spend a day learning, serving, and laughing with you. There were SO many amazing and wonderful and delightful moments throughout...

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a new place to eat

Posted by on Oct 22, 2011 in decluttering, pics | 9 comments

a new place to eat

Today in the midst of working on Make It For Maggie and a gazillion loads of laundry, I decided I couldn’t live with my dining room disaster another minute. I dove right in and started moving things around, putting things in their correct places, and throwing things away. My friend, Rachel, came over in the midst of the project and said “you are a fall nester!” by which she meant I try to make my house a home every autumn. Her comment intrigued me, so I went back to last...

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so ready for a change

Posted by on Oct 20, 2011 in just a note, pics | 8 comments

so ready for a change

I needed a change. I have been sporting an A-line for the last 25 years or so, with a few short departures of perming it, growing it out, and Demi Moore’s Ghost haircut, but I always go back to the chin length A-line. It is a great cut on me. It looks fabulous with my face, is super easy for me to do, I only have to do my hair about once a week with it, and I can tuck it behind my ears which for some reason is my default hair position. Having said all that, I needed a change. On some deep...

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