Weekly Update: Tacky Sweaters, A New Couch and Real Estate Revisited

CCO Pink Girls Night Last week CCO had a girls night (the baby was the only boy lol). The theme was pink, we all wore pink and they had pink flowers, pink napkins and cups, pink drinks, pink cookies and even pink rice crispy squares We played ‘the best game ever’ which is a paper [...]

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Toddler in the Rain

It has been raining all week, just for the record. Today I took my toddler out for his first walk in the rain. We found a big puddle at the end of the neighbor’s driveway, and he sloshed back and forth through it several times with a grin on his face. Next we found a [...]

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Searching for Silence

“Be still and know that I am God” – Psalm 46:10 Yesterday Father preached about finding time for silence in our busy lives. There are so few places where we can find silence these days. I know when I used to try to pray on the deck of our apartment each morning there would always [...]

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SH Christmas Fair

Yesterday my friend and I took the kids to my old High School Christmas Fair. First we went to the toy room where we found an awesome push car, the same idea as what I’d considered buying new-in-store. I was really excited but my friend was more realistic -”Is that going to fit in your [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Summer in November

The thing I was writing about for my first Quick Take got too long and needed to be a separate post in/of it’s own right. The post I was going to replace it with also got too long, so I had to come up with something else. In addition the replacement post merged with another [...]

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Walmart Portrait Studio – A Commentary

I dropped the resume off Saturday and they said they would call, but not before/not until Tuesday or Wednesday, but it’s now Friday. People in this house are trying to tell me they aren’t going to call but when they said they would it was like a sure thing (like ‘the sky is blue’ not [...]

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Summit Gratitude (Baby #2′s First Time Going)

On Friday there was another summit but it was a different priest this time. I sat in my usual spot right at the front, this time with a carseat and a tiny baby next to me. The priest chose to talk (a bit) about surrendering, and he had his own example to personalize the story: [...]

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7 Quick Takes -2 Kids, My dream job? and My Little Photographer in Training

Getting back on track, here is this week’s Quick Takes, better late than never! (photos to follow). 1. Last Saturday evening I had a moment with the in-laws where we were just enjoying each others company, laughing over something that we thought was funnier than it probably really was (‘soo slooow’). Every time I think [...]

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First Snowfall

Friday we had our first snow of the season. When I glanced out the window that morning I was excited to see the trees coated in snow, so much so that I let out a spontaneous squeal and woke my toddler up After breakfast we bundled my toddler up to go outside, while the baby [...]

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5 Minutes to Chaos

This is just a little glimpse into life as a mom, and how much can happen in just 5 minutes. Today I was at my mom’s to work on the baby book and I did get photos on a few more pages… but between 2 kids I didn’t get as much as I’d like done. [...]

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