Author: Jamie
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Cute & Cheap Art Supply Organizer
I wanted to make a cute art supply organizer that can sit in the middle of our school table and hold supplies. This is what I came up with; it was super-easy, and the total cost was under $17! I bought a $7 wooden lazy susan at IKEA, then found little Valentine’s Day metal pails…
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Wrapping Up Our Homeschool Year
Now that we’ve finished up this school year and I’m finishing plans for the next year, I’ve been reflecting on what went well this year, and what didn’t go so well. This was Lindsey’s first year of homeschooling; before she came to live with us, she’d never even known anyone who homeschooled. We enrolled her…
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One Thousand Gifts
“Rejoice always! Pray constantly. Give thanks in everything, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 I have these verses framed in my kitchen as a constant reminder, and I think “give thanks in everything” means “give thanks in everything,” so I want to be more intentional about thankfulness. After all,…
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Remembering on Memorial Day
This is Kathryn at 8 months old (Memorial Day of 2001) sitting next to the memorial marker for my great-uncle George Walker. He was taken prisoner during WWII and was lost at sea when the ship he was on (as a POW) was sunk. His marker is in the Marietta National Cemetery. As far as…
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My Good-looking Parents: circa 1970 (or thereabouts)
One of my aunts recently sent me a big envelope full of old photos, mostly of me as a kid, but there were a few in there of my parents. I’d seen most of them before, but I can’t recall ever seeing this one. I love it! Retro cheese + my mom’s fab 1970’s outfit…