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Homeschool Organization
One of the little things I enjoyed most about homeschooling was having an excuse to add to my home library. Every year when the new Sonlight catalog came out (usually April 1) and the school year was winding down, I took inventory of my Sonlight library. I checked to see which books were still on the shelf where they belonged and which had “walked…
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A Walk in the Park
Lately I’ve been trying to fit more walking into my lifestyle. A few Saturdays ago I convinced Lyle and Rebecca (and Cookie) to go with me for a walk in the park by our house. It has a pretty extensive walking trail… and it’s just down the street… but in the almost-two years we’ve lived here I had never visited…
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Catching Up
Winter has arrived in Colorado, whether the calendar says it’s time or not. If it was up to me, it would not be allowed to snow in the fall or the spring. Only in the official winter months, and preferably only between Christmas and Valentines Day. But no one asked me. Last week I indulged in a “staycation.” After my…
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Grandmother’s Brown Sugar Icing
For today’s post I gathered all the pictures we have of my childhood birthday cakes. We always had a birthday cake, but we rarely had a party, and we didn’t have a camera for a lot of years… which is why there aren’t very many pictures. I am told we had two “parties” for my first birthday. One with a…
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Counting 1000 Gifts – Part 3
This is the time of year when many of us take time to count our blessings… or at least try to name a few of them. I took on the Joy Dare challenge a few weeks ago, and while I have no problem noticing the small (and large) things I’m grateful for, the challenge comes in naming something for each…
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Currently Reading
Currently Reading: All Things Hidden by Tracie Peterson and Kimberley Woodhouse Song of the Road (Route 66 Series) by Dorothy Garlock Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook by Pearl Barrett and Serene Allison The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel Currently Listening To: Inescapable (Road to Kingdom Book #1) by Nancy Mehl Recently Read: Orchard of Hope by Ann H. Gabhart Runaway Saint by Lisa…
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Purse Essentials and Organization
Disclosure: This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BeHealthyForEveryPartofLife #CollectiveBias #shop #adI carry a big purse. A heavy, big purse. It’s more like a purse/brief case/tote bag combined. The thing is, I’m often out of the house for a whole day at a time, and I just never know what…
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Our Visit to the Grand Canyon
So… you remember how back in the 1950s Great-aunt Thelma would invite all the neighbors over to look at the hundreds of slides that she had taken on her trip to the Grand Canyon? Yeah, me neither. I did have a Great-aunt Thelma. And she did take slide pictures on vacation. But the 1950s were before my time. And I…
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Guest Post: The USO
My guest today is my friend Michael Ann Rentz who is a career Air Force wife and USO volunteer. Earlier this year she was telling me about her experience with the USO so I asked her to write a little piece for Veteran’s Day. She doesn’t yet have a blog but I’m hoping she will soon. Thank you for sharing,…
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Road Trip Tallies and Stats
We are back from our anniversary road trip. We had a lovely low-key time. Four days just wasn’t long enough. We traveled southwest from here (Denver) through the mountains down into Arizona. We visited the Grand Canyon and then came home a different route through the mountains. It’s what you call “taking the scenic route”… and it was definitely scenic. I…
