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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the spring after we moved into this house, kenny was hankering for our next home improvement project (the first being to rip out our second floor bathroom and install a shower). i strongly urged that we needed a deck. there was a 3×8′ porch off of the back porch, but there wasn’t a nice place
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this past week, the boys spent their mornings at the little local church doing vacation bible school (VBS). it was the first year that adam was old enough to join them and the first time EVER that i had a whole week of three hours of kid-free time. i spent the entire three hours wondering
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For a while, I’ve had some “cranky mid-section” issues a long with several-day-long headaches and I thought it was about time to cut out some foods that I figured were some of the bad culprits: white sugar and white, processed flours. For a few weeks, Kenny and I cut out all carbs from our diet,
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i love holiday candy. i mean, REALLY love buying bags of chocolate and jelly beans and marshmallow peeps and whatever graces the aisles at halloween, christmas, valentine’s day, and easter. but i hate (that word isn’t allowed in our house unless we are referring to something evil. i give myself license here) what all that
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i think i’ve always loved oatmeal. it probably started with the instant envelopes – the peaches and cream were my absolute favorite as a kid and i’d hide them from my brothers. maybe they never noticed. over the past decade – as a young single woman living on her own, then a wife and now
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it’s just “menu planning” now and not “menu planning MONDAY.” because i’m actually posting this sunday night, and some of you might even be reading this on sunday night and i don’t want to confuse anyone. ya know. our breakfasts were very relaxed this past week. i can’t pinpoint why, except that the boys have
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…i don’t know about you, but i’m eager for the temps to go above 60. i can’t wait to get the grill going again – i’m dreaming of our grilled dinners with fresh-from-the-garden greens: a glass of wine on the deck while kenny grills and the boys play; dinner under a hot summer-setting-sun; cookouts at
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