Week in Review

Meals for the week Chicken burritos Braised chicken with carrots and rice Salisbury steak with mushroom gravy, potatoes au gratin, corn on the cob Apple pancakes, sausage, bacon, scrambled cheese eggs, fresh fruit Turkey breast, mashed potatoes, stuffing, broccoli Chicken sausage and mushroom calzones Thanksgiving sandwiches, fresh fruit Eye Towards Rhythm Circle time was re-established! [...]

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10 Years Ago…

It was a cloudy, scattered rain showers kind of day.  I spent the day in preparation and arrived at the art museum early in the evening for outdoor pictures.  I remember laughing and smiling and hoping for the clouds to stay in the distance for just another hour or so.  The music began at 7, [...]

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Happy Fourth of July

We spent the Fourth at a friend’s house for a cookout and fireworks.  It rained all afternoon and into the evening, which made for some pretty wet kids and some challenges when it came to the fireworks.  Nonetheless, we all still had lots of fun!

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Happy Father’s Day!

We took James fishing at a local park for Father’s Day and within 2 minutes of getting Alex set up with a fishing pole, he caught a good size catfish.  It was about the length of Alex’s forearm, so really quite a large catch for him!  And his Daddy couldn’t have been prouder! Happy Father’s [...]

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Backyard Camping

The boys pitched a tent in the backyard yesterday afternoon and informed me that we were having dinner over the campfire.  Add some friends and a quick run to the grocery store and you have summer bliss! We roasted corn on the cob, hotdogs, and marshmallows over the open flames and did a few hamburgers [...]

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Happy Birthday!

Another birthday celebration here yesterday, this time for one special papa!  I helped Izzy make the cake in the morning.  Alex did the base layer of frosting and…. All three kids got a bag of colored frosting and went to town decorating the perfect birthday cake! I think James liked it!  Even though he had [...]

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Simplicity

I’m back on track with my de-cluttering the house.  No less than 6 cardboard boxes are stacked and waiting to be recycled.  A pile of things to be donated to Goodwill is being accumulated.  I discovered that I do indeed have a countertop in the kitchen and hope to find that I have lots of [...]

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Slowing Down

I was really getting into a good household chore rhythm over the past few weeks and making good headway on spring cleaning and de-cluttering as well until… I threw out my back on Sunday trying to roll my pregnant-self over in bed.  It just sounds pathetic, doesn’t it!?  I could hardly stand, walk, or sit [...]

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First Holy Communion

Alex’s had his First Holy Communion on Saturday and we all had a great day celebrating! I waited until the last minute to shop for a suit jacket, but my procrastinating paid off when I found a great deal on the entire suit for only $13!  The pants required some major altering, both in the [...]

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Busy, busy!

We enjoyed a lovely visit with family from Texas last weekend and then the kids went through grandma and grandpa withdraw.  We seem to be running endless errands this week between co-ops and a midwife appointment.  Wish things were going to slow down for the weekend, but they’re not. Izzy’s has been running a fever [...]

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