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I just spent about an hour re-reading old posts from a long forgotten blog.  I’d gone looking for some long-lost poem I’d written for jme… I wanted to find it and re-gift it to him for Valentines Day.
Reading the stories of my life over the past 5 years was rather cathartic.  Loads of drama.  A [...]

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We spent two weeks with family this summer… it was great!  It was a whirlwind tour of Washington D.C. , Busch Gardens, Jamestown & Williamsburg.   There is so much I could say, but I’ll just let our pictures speak for themselves…
~ Natural History Museum ~

~ Busch Gardens ~

~ Jamestown ~

~ Colonial Williamsburg ~

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Emily tagged me… so I’ll oblige, but I won’t tag anyone else. I will however challenge your readers to do your own and post a comment here if you do!
1. What did you do 10 years ago?
In July of 1998 I was in Birobidzhan, Far East Russia as a missionary. While there I [...]

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I didn’t have allergies ’till I moved to Chattanooga.  Ugh.
*sniff*
This past week was a blur…
The garden is ready to be planted (tomorrow, hopefully!)
I learned that my friend Ken is incredibly wise in animal identification.
I got fillings in my teeth (it hurt a lot) and now ice cream hurts (this is going to be a serious [...]

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Kater & Em’s Little House display…
Finished off with a barn, animals, trees and family.
I’m so proud of them – they worked so hard
and I’m pretty amazed at their creativity!

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Little House on the Children’s Table

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Magic.
I had something completely different planned for letter M – but I did a lot of thinking yesterday… I went to Montessori to paint shelves and had 3 hours of silence in which to do a lot of mulling over.
This is gonna be longer then usual… so go re-fill your coffee mug and settle in [...]

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G is for…

Grandmas.
I like grandmas. I hope someday I’m a rockin’ old grandma who makes amazing cookies… but since my cookies often leave a lot to be desired I may have some practicing to do.
My mom is a pretty cool grandma – though the kids call her Omah. She does cool things like take them [...]

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D is for…

Dolls
 
Daughters
 
Dance
 
We have loads of all three around here… and for your flashback enjoyment, a little bit of me dancing as kiddo.
 

 
I didn’t post yesterday because I was Dead to the world. I had the flu. I was asleep a lot. My neighbor Lauren saved me by taking the girls for the whole afternoon and [...]

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