kenny has been playing the piano a lot lately, much to the enjoyment of his family! he’s been playing every single week in church while the other pianists take a break for various reasons; he’s been playing the piano in our home in the evenings — The Messiah during christmas, and some very complicated too-many-notes*
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last october, the boys got to spend a whole weekend with my parents (oh my goodness, the anticipation of that weekend was almost too much for them!) while kenny whisked me away on a romantic getaway to the middle of the state. my parents were troopers keeping the boys on a cold, rainy/windy weekend with
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even homeschoolers find themselves stuck in boring teaching and learning ruts. i’m now pretty good at seeing one coming, and for us, it’s always about MATH! as i’ve said before, i’ve never been a math person. give me a Shakespeare comedy or Sophocles tragedy to disect, and i’m a happy girl…but once you start
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we got rid of our television before christmas. well, okay – we have a television in our basement but it’s only hooked up to netflix and the boys’ video games. our rule is weekend-only videos/video games, and even the weekend time is limited. i have issues with artificial entertainment, and i’m one of those prudes
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Our friend, Bill Campbell, stated the following as his facebook status last week and I’ve been pondering it ever since. Pondering it as I rise in the dark mornings, as I run, heart pounding with music throbbing through my head, as I pull laundry from the washer to the dryer, feed hungry kids, soothe the
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all he wanted to know was what i wanted for christmas this year. and i gave him an earful about how i don’t want any gifts or presents, and that i think we should just do away with the whole gift-giving part of christmas forever because it makes me so uncomfortable anymore. my husband knows
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