• Her Great Grandparents’ Song

    When our neighbor asked her if she wanted an old piece of wood flooring, she jumped on the offer. I asked her what she planned to do with the heavy wood and she told me it would make the perfect stage. She’s loved a good…

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  • A 90th birthday bash

    Over the weekend we celebrated my grandpa’s 90th birthday. In a lot of ways it was a family reunion too. I think it has been about 30 years since most of us have all been together. We were missing one of my cousins and his…

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  • oh hey…it’s random Friday!

    Every now and then I have a melting pot post. It is one of those days – the kind where I have a lot of random things to announce and choose to do it all in one big random-filled post! Let’s start with a super…

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  • the superhero backpack

    Our school year has officially begun. We started back at our Classical Conversations homeschool community (kids meet once a week with their peers in a classroom setting). This year we are tackling K, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 7th. My oldest started back about 3 weeks…

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  • 4 years together.

    This weekend we celebrated 4 years as a family of 7! On one hand I really never think about adoption, but on the other hand in some ways I think about it often. In the day to day life interactions with my kids – it…

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