Month: January 2012
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Feminine Appeal
For several years, I’ve enjoyed reading Girltalk, the blog Carolyn Mahaney writes with her three married daughters. The girls are down to earth, sensible and friendly. Mrs. Mahaney’s book, Feminine Appeal – Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother, is filled with the same common sense and practical application that I’ve enjoyed from the blog. […]
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What Happened While I Was Looking
Today was the day that I planned to sign William up for baseball. He’s never played baseball, nor have any of my kids participated in any sort of team sports. We’ve all been excited, but nervous, about the whole thing. The early registration discount expires in the next couple of days, though, so I knew […]
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Accepted!
Re-entry is always tough. We’ve been off the normal schedule of home life for three weeks. My husband has been home on vacation. We’ve slept in and played games and stayed up late watching movies and eaten way too much of all the wrong sorts of food. Today, though, we were to going to get […]
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Goals, Yes! Resolutions, Nope.
We had a fabulous Christmas and spent New Year’s Eve, quietly, here at home watching movies and enjoying a ton of homemade goodies, both sweet and savory. It’s been quite cold and unusually dry. In fact, we’ve needed to run sprinklers on the lawns, and I may irrigate the orchard and vineyard this week if […]