This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. A few years ago, we moved from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest. My daughter was starting 7th grade, which can be a difficult time for a girl to change schools. Partway through her first year in the new school (where I was also […]
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The last few summers have been a real bummer with fewer opportunities to travel and go camping. But no matter the past, looking at the future and the weeks and months ahead, you are likely making plans to do more travel. There are plenty of locations for travel, but when you want to visit the
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My eight-month old daughter sat in her high chair banging her little palms on the tray. All the while, she was also singing and moaning along. She was hungry, but she was tired of the finger food I had tried to occupy her with. I handed her a piece of bread and she was at
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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Last week I needed to buy some cereal. Actually I didn’t really need it – but it was on sale and I had some coupons which made it almost free. My husband rolls his eyes when he hears this, because I love to save
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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. The other day I was organizing some supplies in my classroom. I had purchased some new boxes of crayons and had decided that it was time to replace the old broken crayons with new ones. I keep the crayons in plastic soap boxes so
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A few years ago I sat on a plane waiting to taxi out from the gate. My youngest daughter and I were to fly to Hawaii and meet my husband and our other daughter for a long awaited vacation. We had some free plane tickets and had to fly on separate airlines to get the
We were sitting at the kitchen table quietly eating our lunch. My husband, our 6 year old daughter, and 3 year old Tiegan, whom we baby sat. We had cared for her several days a week for a year and a half after her mom died of leukemia. As we ate our spaghetti, Tiegan piped
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Last year, I received a beautiful journaling Bible for Christmas from my mom. I have done many different things over the years, to add to or mix up my devotional time in the morning. This year, I really wanted to try my hand at
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I glanced out my window to see acres of diamonds gleaming in the sunlight. I grabbed my coat and my camera and ran out into the frigid air. Two days previous, we had had a terrible ice storm. We had been without power and electricity for 8 hours. I had a Strep infection and had
