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Thankfuls continued…
“Were there no God we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.” — Christina Rosetti Continuing my list of one-thousand gifts… #51) swimming pools in summer #52) sisters having fun #53) colors — imagine the world without them! #54) laughter #55) a refrigerator to keep food from spoiling…
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One year ago, we met our teenage daughter
One year ago yesterday, we met Lindsey — or as Kathryn puts it, “looked into her eyeballs” — for the first time. Back then, we couldn’t share her real name or her show her face in photos. So I got creative in our 1st photo. There were so many emotions wrapped up in that day,…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Early Days of Summer
This just felt like a week that needed a weekly wrap-up, even though we are taking a summer break from school. We did an unplanned nature study on balloon flowers (a.k.a. Chinese bell flowers). Lindsey has deemed them one of her favorite varieties of flowers, because they are a pretty purple color, and because they…
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Birthday flowers, tea, & friends!
For at least the past three years, our daylilies have begun blooming exactly on my birthday. So even though roses are my birth flower, these daylilies are evidently my birth-day flower. I was saying all week that they’d start blooming on Wednesday, and they did. Kathryn noticed the blooms before I did, and was so…
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It’s My Birthday!
Thirty-[mumble] years ago today, I was born! I was a scrawny little thing, arriving a few weeks early, weighing a little over 5 1/2 pounds. Last month, one of our sermons at church was about the Titus 2 woman, and my pastor said he left it up to our Women’s Ministry to define what an…