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Spring Break is upon us, and while I don’t have the ENTIRE week off, I DO have these three days off! So, we will be spending at LEAST a portion of every day soaking up the salt, the sun and the waves. The girls have new suits (LOVE Walmart $9 suits!), fresh sunscreen, I have
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Spring Break for my kiddos, not me. Not their teachers, as they post grades for the 3rd Nine weeks which means……folks, we are moving into the home stretch of the year. HOLY! COW!! As once again, I scratch my head in wonder and confusion at how time DOES that!!! And, so I’ll wrap up my
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Funny how fixing something can make you feel so great…all pumped up with yourself and USEFUL! Our washer pooped out on us this weekend, fortunately it was the second to last load
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Our first foray into tackle football. Spring football. A little less intense, short season, short field. Good intro. Great exercise. Full Saturdays. With 3 games to go, we finally get a “W” on a cloudy (briefly rainy) Saturday.
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Last weekend, my girls and I took a road trip to see my sister, brother-in-law and nephews; while we were there, my sis, my girlfriend and I were going to see my friend’s daughter in “To Kill a Mockingbird”. It was a whirlwind weekend, rainy, cold and eight hours of car time, but we had
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A while back I agreed to do an interview with Pat Gohn from the Among Women pod cast. She’s a wonderful speaker (voice like butter!) and I always enjoy her pod casts: part women Saints history and the other part an interview with various women on various topics. I love getting a glimpse into other
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We have a funny kid in our family. He’s the clown. Always. He brings the funnies potty humor or just plain funny, he’s always honing his act. This year he entered the dreaded Middle school years and….he is flourishing. Opting to join band and learn the French horn he has excelled. First chair. (okay, out
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Wrapping up the week and cruising into the weekend. Join me and others from around the world @ Conversion Diary and see what everyone’s been up to! Personally, I am OFF of work today. Though I am still up at o’dark hundred to get the kids to school. I’m just looking at it as a
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To properly welcome back “my Precious” to the blog world, I thought I’d post some pictures from our time away…even though I was still click, click, clicking way with my camera and my phone. Caught a glimpse the leftovers from a very busy spider one morning on the way out… We’ve had some amazing weather…
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Perhaps you know (maybe you don’t), today is Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of Lent. 40 days (not counting Sundays–also known as Little Easters–thanks, A!), before Easter. A time to reflect, repent, fast, be charitable and grow in our relationship with Christ. My very good friend, (whom I am trying to get going
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Trekking through life: Faith, family, friends and a whole lot of coffee!
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