Author: Jamie
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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…
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Practicing Gratitude
“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us — and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence a gift of grace.” ~Thomas Merton Continuing my list of “one-thousand gifts”… #26) The Bible, and it’s availability…
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Dog Playing Poker (or Apples to Apples!)
We try to have family game nights every week. And sometimes, even the dog participates! While we were playing last night, I got up to get something, and Lacy came and sat in my place. I didn’t even have time to change any of my camera settings because our dog is infamous for disappearing as…