7 Quick Takes – Heaven, 40 Days For Life and Real Estate

I’m posting up this week’s Quick Takes now, and hopefully later today will be able to add both the pictures and the proper link to a finished retreat post! 1. The doula place finally called me back last week. The lady who was my doula last time would like to do it again so that’s [...]

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CCO Fall Retreat Sept 11-13

A few weeks ago I went on CCO’s annual Fall Retreat. I’d never been on any real retreat (where you actually go away) and it was a really good experience. There were a series of talks and discussion sessions as well as praise and worship, some personal prayer time each day and time for fun. [...]

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7 Quick Takes – 32 Week Ultrasound, Birthday Lunch and Pickles!

Here is this weeks Quick Takes post, up on time and with pictures! 1. I have decided it is officially Fall enough to start classifying my pictures as Fall and not Summer. I officially started this on Sept 7, much to the annoyance of DH who keeps insisting it’s not officially fall. But the cooler [...]

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7 Quick Takes – I’m 23

I’m going to try to keep this week’s Quick Takes post short and sweet, since I still haven’t got the photos into last week’s… 1. Last week we took a day trip to the local wildlife park. Afterwards we played mini golf at Mastodon ridge, which has a model house and car from the Flintstones. [...]

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Cottage Trip – Aug 17-20 2009

A few weeks ago we went down to my cottage for a few days. This has been MY summer place since childhood. Our cottage is not your conventional summer home away from home, it has no electricity and no running water. We have a wood stove for heat, oil lamps for light in the evening [...]

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7 Quick Takes – The Gang’s All Here :)

Once again, because of the sheer volume of pictures and activities, this Quick Takes spans a few weeks. Week of Aug 21 1. On Sunday we went to the annual sandcastle competition. The entries weren’t quite as spectacular as last year but that’s probably because the tide was coming in and some of them had [...]

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