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Homeschool! As I caught a whiff of exhaust from a passing school bus today, I thought of another way to sell homeschooling! Do it for the environment’s sake! Think of it… if one parent from every two parent household stayed home every day, rather than commuting to work – think of all of the gas not [...] I just read this post at the Femina blog: An Uplifting Memory. The post itself and the reader’s comments had me almost hyperventilating! Good to know that all of one’s day-to-day small child related disasters are eventually a source of great entertainment – and that eventually one is OUT of that mode of life! (The title [...] Nothing like a family photo that didn't quite turn out We send Christmas letters every year, generally including a family photo. Or, more likely, a picture of our beautiful children. Whom the people we send photos to have possibly never met, and really don’t appreciate as much as we do… but hey, it beats trying [...] Mystie posted on her blog yesterday: “I know Elly began before I dared to start but when the longing was on me (39 weeks), but I don\’c3\’a2\’e2\’82\’ac\’e2\’84\’a2t know what has come of that fit yet.”\par I just moderated 385 comments on my site. I marked them all as spam and ushered them out, only glancing at the comments made in the last 5 days. I don’t want to read any more of them, because I think perhaps I’m not old enough or gross enough to want to read them all! [...] Yesterday, while my friend Mystie was still here my mother-in-law, brother-in-law (same age as Judah), and sister-in-law came over to meet Mystie and to have a play-date for all the boys. We had 5 boys, 3 and under at our house in the morning. It was rather chaotic and noisy, you might say. To put [...] What a blessed holiday! This morning Judah woke up around 7:00, but we didn’t get up until around 7:30. Ezra wasn’t awake yet, and there was a large surprise in the living room so Michael played with Judah in his room while I made breakfast (raspberry buckle – blueberries were too expensive).\par Another Christmas related social event! Last night we went to a Christmas party at some friends’ up in Washington. The event could’ve been highly unpleasant, with the prospect of shepherding two crabby, tired boys around all evening keeping them out of things, but it turned out surprisingly well! Ezra had a nap in the car, [...] I’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with explaining my grandmother’s passing to Judah. He’s nearly 3 years old now, and he doesn’t seem inclined to merely forget Grandma inside a few weeks. Which is good, I think, but it leads to interesting misunderstandings and odd feedback. When she first passed away I [...] Yes, my grandmother, Mildred, passed away at 12:30 am Wednesday morning. My mom called in the morning as I was getting breakfast for the boys. I had been planning on going to see her that morning. She passed peacefully, and one of the employees was with her at the time.\par My grandmother is failing pretty rapidly right now. She’s living at a retirement facility in Molalla, OR. I go and see her every Wednesday, though I think I’m going to go and see her today (Monday) as well. It’s a very odd thing in a way to have a grandparent die of old age. I [...] I remember a man in Les Miserables who married unsatisfactorily and proceeded to cheat on his wife whenever the opportunity arose. Peace with his neglected wife was therefore bought at the price of releasing the financial reigns to her hands, which lead to his subsequent penury. At least, that’s how I remember the story, although [...] I feel like I haven’t posted pictures in quite a while. But I really haven’t taken many recently, either, so I haven’t felt the desire to come down and download them off my camera. Sometimes it just seems like nothing is particularly picture-worthy. Not because the kids aren’t cute… just for some reason I don’t [...] I tried to do some goal-setting for this next year last week. I read a book Michael got out of the library and used the do-it-yourself workshop at the back of the book. The book was all peppy and me-centered, but I thought the idea of sitting back for a moment (or a day) and [...] I was asked to teach a Women’s Self-Defense Class last Thurdsay at our Women of Hope camp to the assemblage of girls at the camp. Boy was it a lot of fun! I did about a half an hour of lecture (be safe, be cautious, trust your intuation, think ahead, that kind of thing), and [...] “Mommy” was feeling a little antsy this morning and decided to take the boys on an outing. So we bustled into the car and drove down the hill to a local coffee place. I had a 50% off coupon for a coffee drink so I bought a 16 ounce mocha breve with whipped cream (heart [...] I bought a bottle of wine at our local grocery store today, and for the first time that I remember, I wasn’t carded! (Keep in mind, I’m not sure I’ve bought a bottle of wine in the last year)\par Just remember – We all think we’re normal, and we’re all wrong. We went and visited my grandmother today, since we’ll be out of town next week, so she won’t get her Wednesday visit from us, like she usually does. The visit went well and Grandma was very happy to see us as usual. It’s so sad to see her vitality starting to fade. Her mind works [...] While I was living with my grandmother for a year I had the opportunity to think long and hard about where and whom I wanted to be when I reach my autumn years. I wrote down a long list of Dos and Don’ts, some of which were directly demonstrated (or not) by my grandmother, but [...] |
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