This afternoon, we opened the regional basketball tournament against the #3 ranked team in the state and they were undefeated. Our fans from each town were in the stands but also fans from area towns gathered. It’s the beauty of small town sports. I played big town high school sports. There wasn’t the broad based community support in my experience…
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A peek into our normal week
Filed Under: Family Values, Life in North Dakota, Motivated Moms Tagged With: family, prairie life, working mom 3 Comments
My sister over at LovelyLaLaLand has a weekly feature from her photo a day project for 2012. I love what she captures and highlights. I realized I take at least a photo every day but am not nearly as artistic or creative with my photos as her. I can’t comprehend being so organized to upload them to the blog. But…
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Stressful Science Fair
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Life is stressful at times when you are a teenager. One of those stresses at our house for our teenager is the annual science fair. You have to choose your project, get yourself organized, plan, find time to get your procedures established, do your testing, analysis and final report. There is a lot more in between to get done. Time…
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Is it a man’s working world?
Filed Under: Motivated Moms Tagged With: being a mom, mommy guilt, motherhood, working mom 17 Comments
He didn’t mean for his question to be ill intended. It was the first question I was asked after talking about my career in agriculture. The question was not malicious. Instead I believe the man’s question I had to answer this week in front of a group of a high school students taking part in a tour of state government was…
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Love is alive
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Last night after taking the girls and three friends to Tae Kwan Do we came home to complete our Valentine’s for the girls to bring to daycare today. They are far from homemade…more like TJ Maxx specials my mom found for us. But they are decorated with love. This is the most decorating with love I got done, a few…
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