A little of This and a little of That

This:
It is raining outside, no surprise in the Northwest. Christmas music is playing and the banana bread is smelling yummy. This morning started off with cleaning and more cleaning. I cannot believe how messy a girls room can get. Well, I’ve blogged on that before and believe me when I say I [...]

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How was your Thanksgiving?

We had a good time. It was pretty mellow and the long weekend was very relaxing.  While I did not join the masses at 4am or even 7am, I did manage to get a little shopping in here and there throughout the weekend.  I am happy to report that I am nearly finished with my [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday with friends, family and maybe even strangers. We will be at church tonight for the annual simple supper service. We will have soup, bread and water, and then a lovely service with music, testimonies, teaching, and giving. Tomorrow we drive all the way across town [...]

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What a great day with friends

We were invited to brunch over at some friends house.  If there is a perfect family match for us, this particular family is it. They have three daughters, all blond as blond can be, all within the same ages as my brunettes. The girls love each other.  The mom and I get a long great, [...]

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Have you thought about it yet?

You know, Christmas. It is coming right up quicker than you can get to the middle of a tootsie roll centered lollipop.
Well, I have.  I have thought about how every year, I am going to do something different. I am going to make it simple, and stress free. HA!  Never happens.  I really want to [...]

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Food again

Is it just me or is food getting more expensive?  Or is it that I have more children than 10 years ago, or that maybe said children are getting bigger and are eating more like an adult?  Whatever the reason is, it seems as if I cannot keep food in the house, and it seems [...]

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Photo time

Max, a hair cut gone bad. This is NOT a poodle.

Princess, Pixie, and Peanut in our backyard

Jamestown replica- free download at homeschoolinthewoods

Reading time with my Kinesthetic Peanut

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Food Help! Please!

I’m in a funk. I have no idea what to feed my kids for lunches. I am a sandwich girl. I like to just throw lunch together. I am not into actually cooking a hot meal for lunch.  I have a child who doesn’t like sandwiches. She also may be lactose intolerant so we are [...]

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Early Christmas?

Well, not really but it sure felt like it on Friday.  I’m sure you remember about me complaining about floundering in school this year.  Well, after lots of reading and research I decided to purchase an almost full curriculum.  Almost full because it doesn’t include math and language.  I am already pleased with what we [...]

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too cute!

Last night we were supposed to go to small group but one of our children had a slight cold and we could not expose her to another child who is currently very ill, so we made other plans.  My friend from small group came by last night to drop off a small bag of candy [...]

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