Category: family life
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Your Virtual Christmas Card!
Christmas-card sending is ingrained in my DNA. My grandmother has always been big letter-writer/card-sender. I can guarantee as long as she is living and able, her Christmas card will always be the first one I receive every year, and she will send cards for every single birthday in our family, along with Easter and several…
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Today is a BIG deal!
There are two big reasons today is special: #1) Today marks one year since Lindsey legally became our daughter! (In the courtroom immediately after our adoption finalization last year.) #2) Last night Brandon asked Diane to marry him and she said yes! (Diane and Brandon on a just-because photo session last fall.) JamieI’m a big…
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Chore Reward System
I would love to claim the brilliance of this idea, but I totally copied it from Jenn at Daze of Adventure. It’s just too good not to share with you, too! We don’t do allowance. If you live in this house, you ought to do your part in household chores. Sometimes, though, it feels like…
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Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 701 – 725
Join in the fun of counting your one-thousand gifts! 701) sentimental Christmas ornaments 702) finding a few good (inexpensive) stocking stuffers 703) a good friend who is also mom to an adopted teen — because it’s just different than other types of parenting and/or adoption 704) last week’s homeschool moms’ Christmas party 705) like-minded women…
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Generations
My Granmama has always loved children; she’s rocked many, many little ones in the church nursery over the years, in addition to loving on her many grandbabies and great-grandbabies. Gavin, her first great-great-grandchild, was born after my Grandaddy passed away, so he didn’t get to meet him. Today would’ve been my Grandaddy’s 93rd birthday, and…