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Crafts to kick off the school year
A friend, and prolific blogger, posted a challenge a couple of days ago to share a beginning of school year craft project tradition. The prize for submitting ideas is a craft kit, which I am pretty sure my boys would dismiss as too “girly” (although, S is very into paint and color, and glitter would…
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First grade jitters
S is almost never nervous about anything. He charges at life full steam, and seemingly without any anxiety. Oh, except when he fails, or doesn’t get something right the first time. This summer he had a list of “sight words” to conquer before first grade started. He’s got almost all of them, a few still…
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Triumph over faulty hardware
Yes, that’s a picture of our kitchen garbage. We remodeled our entire home about a decade ago, and the kitchen was a complete redo. We installed all new cabinets, and have loved them, but the kitchen garbage cabinet, which glided smoothly for about two years, and then something went awry, and it wouldn’t slide out…
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Fruitarians
Sunday mornings…laid back, slow. The boys watch tv on Sunday mornings. They almost never watch during the week, but as soon as the sun goes down Saturday night, movie night starts, and the viewing continues for a couple of hours on Sunday. And breakfast is relaxed – this morning their choice was a banana each,…
