Author: Jamie
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Cultivating gratitude in our family
Last Saturday, since it was sunny and not-freezing, Kathryn suggested we all bike to the local pizza place for lunch. So we hooked up the wee rides, and took off. Those 3 1/2 miles take us through streets lined by big oak trees, over the canal, with views of the ocean. We passed beach houses…
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Books read in 2015
I like books. In 2015, I read 38 books ranging in length from 192 to 530 pages, which brought me to a total of more than 12,000 pages read. Not bad, considering everything I had going on this year! Then again, I use books as an escape from stressful times. And as a celebration in…
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A happy December
Ah, December. It’s been a good month, and an appropriate finale to our 2015. As a special fun day, I took the girls to see The Nutcracker ballet in Wilmington. We all enjoyed it, and I think Scout could’ve just floated away with delight. She had never been to anything like that, and I don’t…
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Top posts of 2015
It’s almost the new year, and we’re making an effort to thoroughly enjoy what’s left of this one. The unseasonably warm weather lately has been nice, and I was downright giddy the day the kids and I saw a dolphin in the waterway on an afternoon walk! In addition to some fun outings (like The…
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Christmas Tour from a clutter-phobe
I have all these big ol’ thoughts in my brain, but none of them really want to get thoroughly unwrapped and processed into blog posts right now. So how ’bout we have a little Christmas Tour of our home, since I haven’t shared much of it yet? We’ve been in our little cottage near the…