Author: Jamie
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Daughters
“A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.” -unknown Last weekend, Kathryn and I attended a Mother-Daughter Tea Party for the GA’s (Girls in Action) from our church. The tea party just happened to be at our very favorite tea room, Tea Leaves and Thyme. We sat by the front windows, Kathryn’s favorite…
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Once upon a chocolate bunny
We’ve never done the Easter Bunny thing — although we do give the kids a basket of goodies. I’m so very thankful and humbled and amazed that Christ died on the cross, rose from the dead, and conquered sin and death. Words are inadequate to express how I feel about that. So instead, I’ll just…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Almost Spring Break!
I am soooooo deliquent in writing my weekly wrap-ups! So let’s see if I can catch up on what we’ve been doing lately. We are still enjoying the Winter Promise “Children Around the World” program. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been studying Africa. We’ve “visited” different regions of the continent, and have specifically studied…
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Our sweet nurse dog
Lacy the WonderDog can be a pain. She barks at the mail carrier. She sheds too much. She sneaks onto the furniture when she isn’t suppose to. She tracks mud into the house. She once ate the cord on the Dyson vacuum, and she has a fondness for stealing socks. But…this is where Lacy has…
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Snowy Fun in the sunny South!
This is a view I don’t often see out my window… On the rare occasions we do get snow here, it tends to be mostly ice, so it’s not very fun to play in. Yesterday, however, we had a nice fluffy snow — about five inches, which is the most Kathryn has ever seen, and…