Archive for September, 2011:


my husband is a rockstar!

i ran my first 5K this weekend all by myself. but i didn’t do it without the support (and encouragement, and transportation, and care-of our boys, and pride) of kenny. i’m so thankful for the incredible support kenny has given me since the moment i said to him in May: “will you go running with me?”

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there is always a bright side

after last week’s math meltdown in our home, we’ve had a week of nothing but pure joy, and absolute mayhem. and it INCLUDED more math. one evening last week, after sitting down to dinner at 7:30, i sighed heavily with a smile on my face and said, “i love our crazy, full life together!” and

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weeks in review ~ the real story

last year, when i had my weekly ducks in a row, and had enough energy to blog at the end of some weeks during the school year, i published homeschooling weekly reviews on fridays. i haven’t done one yet this year, and here we are, three weeks into school already! one reason is that i

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seven!

Published by in family on September 11th, 2011

happy birthday, sawyer cole! you bring us so much laughter on a daily basis. we love you, star-wars maniac!

ten years.

Published by in family on September 10th, 2011

it was kenny’s second day of his new job in my office building. it was six weeks before our wedding day. it was a lovely end-of-summer, beginning-of-autumn morning. i planned to do some pumpkin-bread baking that night. i was excited about all the newness in the air – fall, our upcoming nuptials, kenny’s great new

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