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Feb 7, 2020
4 min

A Tale of Two Mailboxes

It's Friday and snow is falling light and sweet and covering everything again. I finally let my inner Valentine's excitement come out and...

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Jan 30, 2020
4 min

This one's for the home team

One has just discovered the Rubix Cube and it's many faceted mathematical equations, One printed out the Morse Tap Code for his school cu...

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Jan 21, 2020
4 min

Marriage, Ministry and Mickey-D's

We're still sweeping up confetti from my husband's birthday on Sunday. We are amazed at how quickly the years fly by and how many milesto...

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Dec 31, 2019
4 min

20 for 20

Hello dear friends. It's the Eve of a New Year and our home is still buzzing from the Ghost of Christmas Past. I am reminded that a gallo...

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Dec 12, 2019
5 min

My Little Women

My anniversary takes for ever and a day to arrive each year and we won't even begin to talk about how long I wait for my birthday to make...

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Nov 30, 2019
5 min

Faithfully moving right along.

These are the days of movings. Of moving everything out of the kitchen and dinning room to prepare for 37 people we love. Of moving chair...

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Nov 17, 2019
5 min

Love is a many spendored green

Hi folks. November is flying by. The kids have all passed their October poem, "When the Frost is on the Punkin," by James Whitcomb Riley ...

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Oct 25, 2019
5 min

Death looks good on you.

These are the days when I fight three teenagers for the shower EVERY morning. I'm half frustrated because I want hot water and half thril...

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Oct 10, 2019
5 min

One-stop Shop

Hello friends. It's time for that two week shopping trip around here. Time to enjoy those things that eeked out of your budget when the k...

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Oct 1, 2019
5 min

Put your honey where your mouth is.

It's October and the laptop is sticky from meal preps and possibly too many snacks. With Walmart decked out in all things Halloween I enj...

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Sep 28, 2019
7 min

I know I've seen you before...

When you have six kids riding with your husband to the fill-up station qualifies as a date of sorts. Sometimes these snippets of time bec...

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Sep 19, 2019
5 min

Fan-fare

I ran cross country for one grueling season. I ONLY ran cross country because my Dad had and I so wanted to make him proud of me. I lost...

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Sep 14, 2019
4 min

Where the Wild things are

I've always had such a love for wild flowers. I was that kid who brought bunches of dandelions and daises home. For as long as I can reme...

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Sep 5, 2019
6 min

This old Mom

The Irises are blooming yet again. Not in their entirety but enough to remind me that everything old is new again. Pencils are sharpened,...

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Sep 1, 2019
6 min

To Have and to Hang-on to for dear life

The fact that I have made it through this past week without running away and joining the circus is something I am quite proud of friends....

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Aug 22, 2019
5 min

Change and the Unchangable

I superglued my fingers together first thing this morning. Happy Thursday friends. I was trying to fix the heel on my dress shoes after t...

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Deena

Jun 13, 2019
6 min

The sweet smell of friendship

These are the times that try men's souls. Well actually things are pretty great, but I have always wanted to begin a post like that. Sorr...

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Deena

Jun 5, 2019
10 min

Celebration from an audience of One

I'm fully persuaded that if you allowed me to take you to the coffee shop and buy you a hot coffee with crunchy raw sugar dusting some fo...

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May 31, 2019
8 min

One foot in front of the other

We now return to the dirty difficult hike, where wet-wipes and gum are worth more than gold friends. I give you day 3 of the AT. This was...

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May 23, 2019
9 min

Mums the Word.

To be honest, the interest in this hiking trip has taken me plum by surprise friends. Maybe it's because it is interesting to see someone...

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