Haunted House

I haven’t been to a haunted house in years. When I had children I didn’t even want to do Halloween anymore. It’s evil. Too scary. Ungodly. But my husband had different ideas. He wanted us to enjoy the time with our kids. We never celebrated the evil. We didn’t believe in the roots. It was [...]

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West Nile Part 2

About that last West Nile post.. I got all fired up thinking about the way some of the doctors and nurses would treat my dad like something they had to “do”, something to check off the list rather than realizing he was a fully functioning, healthy man just days before he got this weird THING. [...]

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to be continued

I really will finish my West Nile story soon. But in the meantime, check out the updates on MS and Quotes of the Day.
Blessings.
Oh, another nice quote from Jaden sitting here with me, “you smell like poop.” Now he’s sniffing me and telling me, “Actually you don’t smell like poop.” Thank you very much.

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West Nile or Not?

Since I started this blog, I have wanted to encapsulate my summer but it still feels too close to put into a “capsule.” This blog may be shorter than I anticipate or it may be long and torturous, where it will only serve as therapy for me while my readers click away, or I may [...]

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Lifelong friends know too much

Two of my best friends are turning 40 within a month of one another. Glynis, my college roommate, already hit the 4-0 mark. My childhood friend, Amy, hits it in a couple weeks. While I’m not saying 40 is old, I will say that they’re both older than me, which means they’ll probably get dementia before me.  
No longer will Glynis [...]

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Being Five… Again

I don’t remember the exact date I turned five for the second time. It was a gradual occurrence. There was no “Happy Birthday to you,” sung the second time around. There were no presents. It just sort of happened. Funny thing is, I’m pretty certain I was already an adult.
Best I can tell is that [...]

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Mrs. Anderson

Last week while walking through the Oaks Academy at the speed of Jaden (see earlier post by same name), the pre-kindergarten teacher stopped to ask if Jaden would be in her class next year. I told her how he would have been in pre-k this year, had we sent him to the Oaks. However, we [...]

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Pictures from camping

Here are some of my favorite scenes from two weekends of camping in September.
Click on the titles and they should show up on your screen.
Dunes scenery
shirts on sticks 
What happened next
Bret laughing with Jaden
Ethan and Noah at the waterfall
me (in the middle) and my peeps
boys at mccormicks creek
the light at the end of the tunnel
trying to make fire
Chloe making Asher hit himself
peek a boo

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Are all boys pyromaniacs?

I wonder if there are boys out there who aren’t obsessed with fire. This weekend at an annual camping trip with friends, the boys gathered ’round the fire with sticks and paper. They dipped their sticks into the fire just enough to get the tips burning… just enough to write their names in smoke hanging [...]

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Jesus is in the row boat

So often through Scripture we read about Jesus hanging out in boats with his homies. I wonder what kind of boats Jesus would jump in if he had his skin on today. Would he walk around on the QE2 as it crosses the Atlantic, checking out the outrageous buffets? Would he join the modern fishing boats off the [...]

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