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Encouragement Along the Way
Tuesday night, we had our last monthly meeting of the year for our homeschool support group. This time, instead of our usual meeting, we celebrated with a celebratory tea! Michelle and Kim and the rest of the moms who set all this up must have put a great deal of time and energy into it!…
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Why Adoption?
I’m finally getting around to re-posting some of my old Rose Cottage posts that are relevant here. Like this one from April of 2008… As we’ve told our family and friends that we plan to adopt through the foster care system (meaning we will adopt a child that is currently in foster care here in…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: the home stretch
Somewhere along the way this year, we got behind schedule. There is no way we’re going to make it eight more weeks of doing what we’re doing (without somebody — like me — going bananas), and we have an out-of-state wedding to shoot at the end of May, so I’ve decided to double-up on what…
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Lucky Clover
I have an odd talent for finding four-leaf clovers. Just this week, I’ve found seven, and I wasn’t even really looking. My mom is the same way. We also have a knack for finding typos in books and such, and I think the four-leaf clover thing is somehow related; to my eye, the anomaly of…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Children Around the World
We’re traveling (virtually) in Asia now, in our “Children Around the World” program from WinterPromise. The girls’ travel notebooks and passports are getting quite full! After Asia, we have Oceania/Pacific Islands, and then we are done. That will still take about seven or so more weeks. This week in our geography study, Kathryn labeled the…
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Lacy the Lurcher
On our routine visit to the vet last Friday, everyone fell in love with Lacy, and told her how sweet and pretty she is. She loved the praise, and had a great time. 🙂 They asked where I found her, and if we knew what she was mixed with, since they see quite a few…