Oh, how I love blogging!!

Ok…I have to ck out all your wonderful blog posts from yesterday  as my modem decided to drop its drivers and my son used the back-up disk as a hockey puck….but that isn’t what is so WOW about today.
My twin girls LLOOOOOOVE Hilda Van Stockum books…you know, like the Mitchels Five for Victory…etc?  Well, in [...]

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Overheard in the Kitchen

DD#2(12) is mixing pumpkin bread.Sunshine Boy(3), all smiles,  climbs up on 2 grain buckets and happily observes her every move.
Sunshine Boy…can I ask a question?Dd#2 …Sure!  What do you want to know?Sunshine Boy…can I spit in the bowl?Dd#2  Umm…eew?  Why would you want to do that?Look at it this way,  Spit is special and [...]

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Thanksgiving Tree

We are a bit late in posting this because of being sick…but!  We wanted to share our virtue theme of Thankfulness!  Following Karen’s lead we made our own Thanksgiving tree!  (Sorry no pics…someday that darned camera will behave for me!!)
Each child cut out his/her hand prints in their favorite fall color and wrote their [...]

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Oh, how I can relate!

I love the Domestic Church comics found here!
We pray the family rosary and I know as they say perfection is God’s business….our’s is just the trying…?

HT: to Julie!

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Oh the Glories of GOOD Coconut Oil!!

In my research for better living, I have come across some great information on Coconut Oil.  Here are some articles on the glories of using it!  I know some people that will give up everything in order to keep it in their diets.  There was one elderly gentleman in particular who told me that he [...]

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Life at the Funny Farm

Note to self:Be careful what you tell large motor boy(7) to do unsupervised.  hmmm…do you think a pressured garden hose and some soap are a recipe for disaster?  I mean…i just wanted him to rinse out the shop vac quickly.  How long do you think it will take that half-filled bottle of dish washing detergent [...]

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Looking for the Beauty in the Little things

One pudgy toddler finger in my cheek and in the twinkling of her little eyes my dd pronounced the name "Mop"The other pudgy toddler finger in her cheek and in the twinkling of her little eyes my dd pronounced the name "Me"With one set of toddler arms wrapped around my neck, she pronounced "Ah luf [...]

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The beginning of a diary of a dieting family!

It has been so long since I posted that I almost don’t know how…LOL!  We have been going round and round with illness here and just when I thought we were all healthy again …here comes a cold.  I pray I am immune THIS time!

I am about to embark on a brand new adventure.  My [...]

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When Life Hands You Lemons…

Well, I knew this wouldn’t last…
…The washing machine died…
 
It died while I was soaking diapers. 
Very dirty diapers….It is leaking out of the bottom and it won’t go on at all….
Can’t drain it, Can’t spin that icky water out… 
What is that saying about God shining through our weaknesses?
I would love to see His shining [...]

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Poetic Fridays

My children love to memorize poetry.  For years to come I know that our favorites will include poetry from Robert Lewis Stevenson because we started with him.  He got us hooked on the beautiful rythmic beauty that poetry possesses and the sweet artful images that are contained in each line.  The first time I picked up [...]

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