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Road Trip
It’s been over two years since we’ve been on a cross-country road trip, so we’ve been looking forward to this one for awhile, even though it’s going to be a lot of miles in a short time. We got off to a later start than we had hoped yesterday evening. We planned to drive for several hours after we all…
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Literary Heroine Blog Party
Hosted by Accordion to Kellie… The Questions Introduce yourself! Divulge your life’s vision, likes, dislikes, aspirations, or something completely random! I’ve posted lots of random things about myself before. I aspire to be a writer. I have ideas for a novel formulating in my head, but it’s not cohesive enough to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard, as the case may…
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Training Trip
This week I’m in Colorado to network with the other Sonlight consultants, to learn more about upcoming products for 2012, and to get some fresh ideas for the homeschool convention season. I’ll be hosting the Sonlight booth at 5 different homeschool conventions this year. I love visiting with fellow homeschoolers and sharing my passion for Sonlight. That’s why I become…
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Sunday Afternoon Drive
Daylight hours are short and sunny days are rare this time of year, so when this past Sunday turned out to be sunny Lyle invited me to go for a drive with him on some of the back roads around Coeur d’Alene Lake. We stopped to enjoy the view several times. The above picture was taken at 3:40 p.m. as…
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Midnight Adventure
We had a quiet Thanksgiving at home. (And, yes, Farrah, Thanksgiving Day was my birthday.) It turned out to be one of the times where it didn’t work out for us to go anywhere or have anyone over, so it was just our immediate family. Still, we have our children and our health and far more blessings than we deserve,…
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Give Thanks
1. List three (little) things you wouldn’t want to live without: contact lenses books coffee 2. Name something you had to do without recently: a car 3. What are you most thankful for that you consider a luxury? my “new” car 4. Name an item you use the most throughout your day: a computer 5. What would life be like…
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Thanksgiving Traditions
I’m blogging today about family holiday traditions (and non-traditions) on the Sonlight Blog. Please pop by and leave me a comment there. I love to hear from you. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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Celebrating
The day of our anniversary last week was too full of scheduled activities for much celebrating. That’s the way it happens sometimes, so Lyle and I were tentatively planning to “do something” together on Saturday if he didn’t have to work. On Thursday morning he IMed me: “I don’t suppose you want to go to the Seattle car show?” The…
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Life Experience and Literature
Probably my favorite genre as an emerging reader was pioneer stories. One of my all-time favorite novels was Caddie Woodlawn, so I was very excited to realize it was part of Sonlight’s Intro to American History program. I remembered what exciting adventures Caddie had in the 1860s on the Wisconsin frontier. I can’t tell you how many times I read…
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Families Writing
My mother saved a few of my school papers, as all mothers do, I suppose. It’s interesting to see my little-girl handwriting, but to be perfectly honest, spelling lists and mimeographed worksheets are kind of boring to look it. My mother also saved letters. Boxes and boxes of letters. Now those are fascinating to me. They give a glimpse into relationships and…
