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The Boys' Adventure Outing
Here’s that post I promised about the boy’s wilderness camping trip. Zachary, Wesley, Mitch (a friend from Tucson) and Andrew (another friend from Michigan) loaded up their gear and readied themselves to leave one morning after a breakfast of oatmeal and toast(??). Zachary made the breakfast so I’m not sure if he added toast to their fare. Notice the bananas in Wesley’s hands (far right). I gave that to them at the last minute so they’d have some back-up provisions because these boys only took a few homemade bread baguettes to sustain them; the rest of the time they were going to live off the land. Also notice, Andrew (on…
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The Week in Review – 5/9/10
The week started off with Mother’s Day. The kids in Sunday School sang a nice song about mothers and gave us each a red rose as well as these cute little teapots with a tea bag in them. Such a cute idea. This picture was not taken on Sunday. Justus really didn’t wear this spotty t-shirt to church. Really! 🙂 Then we had boys arrive from Tucson and Michigan. My boys and them wanted to test their mountain man skills and live off the land; so they packed up their gear and headed for the woods (about 4 miles from our house) with some bread and bananas. 🙂 The boys took a…
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A Completed Peg Board for My Sewing Area
It’s done. I actually completed my own peg board after being inspired by Cami at Creating by Cami. Here’s one of them… and here’s the second one… (The black string was some I found in our barn that held a hay bale together. 🙂 ) My brother-in-law gave us quite a bit of peg board that he had used in his furniture store. It was pink but my laundry room is beige & black… so Serenity spray painted them. then we hot glued white ric-rac along the edges. Then I used the peg board holders that I purchased from Home Depot and placed them where I wanted. So easy, so…
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Peg Boards for Craft Rooms
When we redid the boy’s bedroom (which reminds me – I haven’t posted pictures of that) my laundry room ended up having an extra little cubbyhole. I am thinking of turning this tiny little spot into a permanent sewing area. By small I mean it’s only about 2 1/2″ – 3′ wide but it has quite a bit of depth so I’ll use some of that space for storage. Serenity really desires to learn to sew and I’m actually in the middle of writing up a unit study that we can do together that will cover learning to sew as well as some of the history & science of it all. I…
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The Week in Review
So many things happened this week that I didn’t post about, so I’m going to just do a week in review with pictures. (that’s me, lots of pictures 🙂 ) Seth left for Manitoba, Canada, Monday morning at 12 a.m. I’m missing him! I grab 8 forks out of the drawer to set the table and then realize, oops! I only need 7. Russell took me on an anniversary get-away. Our anniversary was in April while the 4-H EXPO was going so we had to hold the celebration. 🙂 21 years. Unbelievable that it has went by that quickly! When we arrived home from our time at the Scottsdale Plaza…
