Thursdays this month are for 100 mile one-way drives to gymnastics. Today a friend is driving but for the past two weeks I have driven. This all started with Miss A’s big idea. All she wanted to go was go to gymnastics this summer she said earlier this Spring. Easier said than done. I know you probably have gymnastics in…
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I made the official motherhood proclamation this week that all little girls must stay age six. Forever. They can graduate from kindergarten, lose their front tooth and then a bottom tooth and then just freeze frame right where they are. Then forever, Miss E and I can go on road trips like we did this week. On Memorial Day, we…
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You want to teach your kids to garden? You want them to learn lessons in hard work with watering, weeding and fertilizing. You want them to experience the bounty of their work. Snap off a pea to eat. Pick beans. Dig carrots, potatoes and onions. By teaching kids to garden, you teach them the beginnings of food production. It…
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Do you ever feel like you snapped your fingers and suddenly a moment you had hoped would last longer was gone, forever? You wanted to savor it, to hang on a little longer but before you could, it passed. You couldn’t keep up with it. You couldn’t hang on to it to keep it right where you wanted it. That’s…
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I was spoiled with love this weekend and extra special gifts from a homemade candy and cookies bouquet, homemade cards, apple trees, pear trees and rose bushes. Over the past ten plus days, I have had some ongoing medical issues. It’s a long story for a different day. I’m going to be okay but on Friday afternoon Nathan went with…
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