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Five Finds Friday (eighteen) (throw blankets & maple bars & authors)
FUNNY Living with Ryder is often like living with a toddler. A toddler who reminds me daily of a rug. A moving rug. Last night he drank too much water before bed and had to go outside several times during the middle of the night. Also, at least twice he fell out of the bed. FASHIONABLE This is all about…
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when I think there’s nothing to write about, there usually is . . .
I’m still trying to devise some apparatus that increases the hours in my day. Or blinders so I will ignore all the distractions that keep me from staying on task. It keeps being midnight and I keep still having a lot that hasn’t gotten checked off my list. I’ve been half heartedly listening to an audio book entitled Hands Free…
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on fear and back roads and what once was scary but now is not
This past weekend I was driving in the dark down some Virginia backroads. The dark in rural Virginia feels way more dark than the dark in South Carolina. There aren’t street lights or lamps or houses very close to the road. Neighborhoods aren’t dotting the path and the night seems more dark somehow. Driving the rural roads this weekend reminded…
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the maple weekend: a comedy of errors
Oh goodness, our weekend was plum full of good intentions. (I’m a feelin’ like story telling’, so settle in friends) What We Planned: Drive to Virginia. (The Motherland. The Oasis.) Meet my brother. (That wiley New Zealand one.) Visit the Maple Festival together in Highland County. What Actually Happened: We got to Virginia. That part worked out pretty much just…
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Five Finds Friday (seventeen) (kayaks and gouda grilled cheese and the bad lip reading)
FUNNY I can’t put my finger exactly on why this is so funny. But it just is. There’s Jack Black’s voice in there and it’s such ludicrous lip reading. FASHIONABLE Dapper Ink is a local print shop. Their work is fabulous. (I have the best little business cards designed by Emma and printed by Dapper Ink. I love them.) They…
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that’s right, john ronald reuel
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” …
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Mobi Max Math Game: A Review
(Cheers and party emoticons, you guys – it’s my first Timberdoodle review. Thanks to Timberdoodle I have the opportunity to receive this math game at no cost in exchange for my honest review – with opinions all of my own. The opinions — that’s the easy part!) Math and I aren’t BFFs so when I see anything that can make…
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Book Review: Homecoming
There are some characters in novels that stick with you all of your life. Do you know what I mean? We all remember Ramona Quimby – right? People fall in love with Harry Potter and Frodo and Lucy Pevensie. Maybe you can’t forget Oliver Twist or that one big guy in Of Mice and Men. I remember a girl named…
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an education of sorts
I am learning to come to terms with the fact that my life is both beautiful and hard. I am learning to live content in the presence of both grief and joy. This is a tension not unfamiliar to me. When my mother passed away I received my first taste of the bitter and the beautiful in one life-altering mouthful.…
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Five Finds Friday (sixteen)
Well. This Friday came faster than others now, didn’t it? FUNNY Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves – the kids and I. We get started watching old Tripp & Tyler videos and we just keep clicking and clicking. I don’t know how we missed this one, but the Truth or Dare episode is hilarious. I want to play this…
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The Half Marathon. That I ran. Yes. I did.
Up until a few days ago I had never run farther than six and a half miles at one time. And that was only once. I still don’t know how to exactly think of myself as a runner. Remember my first 5K? I have zero explanation for how this happened but at some point in the past five months…
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dear friends ….
I am very tired. A lot busy. Too many spinning plates. Yesterday might have been an extra day on the calendar but it certainly doesn’t feel like an extra day in my schedule. My to-do list is unnerving and I think I have let the list get lopsided. I have a hard time returning texts and answering phone calls and…
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Five Finds Friday (fifteen) (loose tooth and BBQ sauce. unrelated.)
Hooray. It’s Friday. FUNNY I have six children. They each have a mouth. And in those six mouths you would find the normal human amount of teeth. And – during the course of five of their lives – they have all lost the normal amount of baby teeth. I’m not great at math and I’m unwilling to figure out the…
