family fun


starting school…

…but not for two weeks yet! i’m so glad that we’re still in full summer mode here because i would be completely distracted if i had to “do school” right now. i’m considering a very organic, easy-going start to school in a few weeks’ time, when i can finally put summer behind me and “get

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still a blogger!

Published by in family fun, seasons on August 6th, 2011

i swear…i really am still a blogger! …it’s just that summer keeps us busy and less contemplative. okay, so i’m still contemplative, but i’m doing blog posts in my head, and not on my laptop while the temperatures soar well above 80 (heaven!)… i hope you are having a great summer like we are: endless

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our youngest is FIVE!

Published by in family, family fun on June 10th, 2011

five years ago today, we welcomed Adam Henry Smith into our family! Kenny and I like to tell the boys the story of the day the two older boys came to the hospital to meet Adam for the first time.  Sawyer was just 21 months old, Rowan was several weeks shy of turning 3. Rowan

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surprised by snow

Published by in family fun on February 9th, 2011

we had a field trip planned for yesterday morning and OH! how i dragged my feet about going!  it was 20 degrees outside, the roads were snow covered, and the field trip was a hike outside for two hours. not really my idea of family! fun! i planned and organized the winter outing (which included

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paying better attention ~ the boys

one would think that as i spend every single day, all day long, with my three boys, that i would have had the time to really know them inside and out. this is partly true. i know them very well: i am learning their different learning processes, i know how they’ll react to a certain

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bleak midwinter gives way to…

…a cozy family christmas. Merry Christmas! I hope all of your Christmases were blessed! Enjoy this season of Christmastide!

thanksgiving 2010

we had a lovely thanksgiving traveling 10 hours east to massachusetts to spend with two of kenny’s brothers. thursday was our cooking day…my sister-in-law prepared the standard turkey dinner while i took notes in my head (dry sherry makes an already delicious turkey gravy 100% tastier; a stick of butter inside the cavity of the

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our owl family

i got crafty yesterday. i had to make a few prototypes of corn husk dolls for our homeschool co-op class next week, and adam wanted to paint. i remembered that i saw a great craft earlier that morning on a crafting blog, so i got him the brushes, the crayola paint (my favorite) and the

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school week 1, recap

i hope to recap each or at least every other week of school this year so i have a better record of things we’ve done. pictures at the end of the post! i can honestly say this was the easiest first week of schooling that i’ve ever done!  i know it’s only my third year,

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first day of school: highlight on Bible Class

the first day of school is always fun, sin’t it? the anticipation the night before of waking up to freshly sharpened pencils, new books, new notebooks, and new things to learn are always high on the student’s mind. rowan had a hard time falling asleep last night. maybe it was the “last-day-of-summer ice cream cone”

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