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Thanksgivings
For helpersand teachersFor this handsome fellaFor no-pesticide corn and "pets!"For creative sleeping habitsFor ups and downsFor thumbs. I never appreciated them enough before.For sonsFor green magicFor...
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Article 22
Not much has been going on around here to speak of. We've been plenty busy though. We've been pulling what's left out of the gardens and getting the beds ready for winter. It's a bit sad seeing all...
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The Best Medicine
We've been infiltrated by the flu virus since last week. Ethan got it first and was just getting over it when Caden got hit, and now Charlotte says she's not feeling so good either. I have no idea...
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Family Campout
I love seeing little girls holding hands.waiting for daddies and uncles to kill the wasps so we could go on a walkIts obvious Jeremiah has been teaching Caden how to drivesadly the park was closed. Try...
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Back to Where it All Began
Did you go outside today? It was nice and warm but boy was it windy. At one point in the Aldi parking lot my hair swirled around my face and straight up in the air like it was being sucked into a...
View ArticleA Time to Pray
While The Football Game was playing in our house last night I was crying in the living room. I was (as is typical) not paying attention to the game. Football bores me so much that it, and not an...
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A Flu, in Three Parts
Blech.I thought about naming this post "My Couch Smells Like Vomit" I wonder how many would be repulsed at a title like that? (Or how many would be strangely attracted?)or "Ode to Clorox Wipes ( How Do...
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Conversations with Charlotte and Caden
Charlotte to Ethan: " You look like an angry horse eating a carrot." Charlotte: "One time, on my Queenie date, Grandpa got SO hungry, he had to make his OWN DINNER! His OWN Dinner. He had to make it...
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Article 14
The kids were eating lunch the other day and suddenly there was a big commotion in the kitchen. I went in and found 3 very excited minions."Look what Charlotte did!"I didn't even mean to!""Look its...
View ArticleEthiopia Have I Loved (Pt 1)
What has been going on lately with the adoption, you ask? Well,I wish I could say something wonderful, but in actuality, there is alot of talk about a shutdown and things are really up in the air right...
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In Which 75% of My Kids Repeatedly Drop The F-Bomb
So...Yesterday I was pulling lunch out of the fridge when Charlotte came into the kitchen. "Mom, Ethan said f%#@ is a bad word."(Insert incredulous snort here, after all, its such a weird, funny word,...
View ArticleEthiopia Have I Loved, Part 2
So, what I said about having always known about corruption in Ethiopia wasn't exactly true.We didn't really know until May of 2011, when we were getting ready to send in our Dossier. At that point we...
View ArticleIn Which Everything is Just...Typical
Well, Thursday came and went with the only news being "no news." "No meeting.""Check back next Thursday."We went to get our fingerprints re-taken with Homeland Security/ Customs and Immigration....
View ArticleEthiopia Have I Loved: The End...and A Beginning
I was wrong in saying "China would be the easy choice."I guess what I should have said was something like, "If you aren't in the middle of this, and you've not been waiting 3 1/2 years for your baby...
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Conversations with Charlotte: the ABC game
Charlotte: "k...kangaroo trainer"Me: "l...lion tamer"Charlotte:"m...mommy. Or money maker"Me: "n...hmm...necklace designer."Charlotte: "ooh.that's a good one! O...octopus actress."Me:" uh...ok...p...a...
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Her name is Lady
But mostly I refer to her as "That Dang Dog!"I've been overruled.Mutinied.Thwarted.Jeremiah and the kids brought her home on Friday. She's a burnese/lab mix, 8-9 weeks old.And no, obviously, we...
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Be Still My Bleating Heart...
The cousins got goats last week, and we went to visit.For being weird creatures to begin with, they sure are cute.They hop hop hop everywhere.Judah kept calling them "Ba" which is his word for dog.Or...
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Look How Clever My Kid Is!
Charlotte has a thing for trees. Up until recently her love for them was confined to climbing. But now, she has figured out another way to express her affection...She did this all by herself. No help...
View ArticleHatching a Plan...
On Monday the 14th, I am going to bring the issue of chicken-keeping before the City Council. Here is the bulk of my proposal...If you are interested in being allowed to have chickens in town, please...
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10 Tiny Updates
I cant wait to get out and dig in the dirt. I will be a very happy girl when I dont have to bring plants in and out everyday. We have 80 tomato starts and 22 jalapenos, among others that are itching to...
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Just Like Magic...
I love these carnations that we got from Baker Creek. They are all differently speckled and striped and like little gems among the weeds.Our first, (and only, so far) pumpkin. So excited for fall...We...
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