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A Quiet Spot: Also, a white picket fence
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Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Also, a white picket fence. A dinnertime conversation with my three year old: . When I grow up, I'm going to be TWO THINGS! A mommy, and an astronaut! How many kids are you going to have? Holds up three fingers.]. Do you know what you're going to name them? Francis, and Katherine, and . Lily. . Francis is a boy. . Aha How old will they be? One, and two, and three. . Wow, you will be such a busy mom! And a good one, too! From th...
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Beyond the White Picket Fence: The Week I Was Going To Have It All Together
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Beyond the White Picket Fence. Come on in. There's a whole world waiting. Sunday, January 26, 2014. The Week I Was Going To Have It All Together. I wake to find our sweet boxer sleeping in a lake of her own urine. Her continence and hips have been failing for a couple months now. When our campers return, I notice the pile of laundry they dump in the hallway only long enough to schedule it for Monday morning's first load of launch. And please us he does. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Week I Was ...
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A Quiet Spot: Everything But the Trapper Keeper
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Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Everything But the Trapper Keeper. Well, knock my socks off and straight into the wash, as Paula Deen would say. My children appear to be channeling normal. Don't get too excited, though; notice the shirt still hangs loose.). Either that, or they're fresh off their first day of Classical Conversations. She's a big personality in a small package," commented one of the room moms from Caroline's class during lunch. Yep. I made th...
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A Quiet Spot: A River Ran Through It
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Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Saturday, August 20, 2011. A River Ran Through It. Well, not a river, exactly, but a good, hearty, rushing creek. The one where we've spent hours wading, swimming, building dams, enjoying the natural water slide. Now there's not a drop of water to be found. Hello, historic Texas drought.). Boyhood and Beyond: Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man. A terrific book being read at night by the father and son in this house). August 20, 2011 at 2:12 PM. Bull C...
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A Quiet Spot: Perhaps He Needs Some Woolen Socks?
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Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Thursday, September 1, 2011. Perhaps He Needs Some Woolen Socks? Mom," said Caroline as we drove along - truly, there's no place like the car for great discussions - "I think the earth must really be shaped like a teardrop. Because Mt. Everest is so, so tall. It's, like, a spiky point, and the earth is a ball.". She burst out compassionately. "Those mountains are so big and sharp, they must hurt His feet when He rests them there. Ouchies! September 3, ...
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A Quiet Spot: How to Completely Surprise Yourself
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Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. How to Completely Surprise Yourself. As promised yesterday, here is my Guide to Running a Half Marathon for NonAthletes. Because we hold this truth to be self-evident: If I can do this, you can too. Remember, my sport of choice in high school = piano.). So here are a few tips that washed up the shore of my conscious mind during the two hours and thirty one minutes it took me to run the Livestrong Half Marathon. 2 Find a group.
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A Quiet Spot: For the Days that Aren't So Spectacular
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Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. For the Days that Aren't So Spectacular. Today I'm thinking about a certain yawning chasm. It's the chasm between my ideals and my real, actual life. Lying down to rest this afternoon, I read this post. From someone who has those moments as well. Then a friend kindly sent me a Facebook photo of one of the messiest rooms of her house, a room that is in the process of being remodeled. And I remembered . we are all toddling...
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A Quiet Spot: Hanging in There
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Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Sunday, August 28, 2011. Hope you all had a pleasant weekend. If you were able to go outside, because it wasn't either a) hurricaning in your general direction, or b) 110 degrees, may I congratulate you? Oh, wait. Sorry, just checked Facebook. Make that 112 degrees.). Dear friends in the Pacific Northwest . got a house to sell us? I'm really only half kidding. Stuff you'd like to see on the new blog (or not see)? Let me know.). Wet trampolining is one ...
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A Quiet Spot: Love believes the best
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Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Love believes the best. So I know that at YOUR house, complete harmony among siblings is the order of the day. But chez moi? In the last few. Months, my girls have remained frozen in a sort of suspended animation, constantly hovering between friendly play and all out bickerments. You know what, though? You are a MEAN CHILD! Which I want to do sometimes now, since the former "victim" has become the new "tormentor.". Here's what...
