Category: family life
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Twenty-five more of my thousand gifts
I’m still thanking the Lord for more of my one-thousand gifts! Gifts #151 – #175: My friend Tina and her baby (still in the womb) are both safe after a scare last week. The new old car passed emissions! Cheap cars mean cheap ad valorem fees for tags. Sister-time for Lindsey and Kathryn. Vanilla cupcakes…
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My Summer Garden
We aren’t doing formal nature studies right now, but even a trip to the mailbox provides a trip through furiously blooming flowers, busy bees, and fluttering butterflies, like this swallowtail on a purple butterfly bush (aka buddleia). Ken’s birthflower, the gladiola, is so named because it resembles a sword; the Latin word gladiolus means sword….
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4th of July: Food, Fun, Friends, and Puppies!
Lindsey’s friend Deanna spent the weekend with us again. Even when we don’t do much of anything exciting, I think she enjoys just hanging out; she currently lives in a group foster home for girls, and even though it’s a pretty good place, it’s not the same as having a family. And although we really…
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Counting more of my thousand gifts
“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” -Alphonse Karr Continuing to list one-thousand gifts as part of the Gratitude Community: 126) a new [old] car: 1995 Mazda Protege 127) we made it two years as a one-car family 128) I had time this week to clean…
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Still Practicing Gratitude
“There is always something for which to be thankful.” -Charles Dickens Listing one-thousand gifts is harder than it looks, but a very worthwhile endeavor! #101) coffee and conversation with my mom #102) living so close to my mom #103) my nature-loving dad #104) cousins that are like siblings #105) friends who pray for me #106)…