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Giving Love Notes & a Few Inexpensive Gifts for Valentine’s Day
I love having special traditions and celebrating occasions. Well guess what occasion I’m preparing for? Hint… it’s all about love and hearts. Valentine’s Day! So much fun making my family feel special and it also gives me a chance to be a little creative. My sweet and thoughtful family (I just lurve them!) bought me a Silhouette Cameo for Christmas and I’ve been having fun with it! You can go to their blog and see the kinds of things you can do with one. They’re pretty amazing. So for the past week I’ve been giving them little notes and putting them in mini mailboxes I bought at Target a few…
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Moving Forward Towards Long-term Income
Five years ago, my oldest son graduated from our homeschool high school. I rode him heavy about furthering his education since he was such a perfect student (so studious!). He could have been a poster child for any school. They would have been proud to call him their own. High school was over and now the next step was to go to college. Russell wasn’t big on college. He didn’t like the college scene idea, among other things. I talked to Seth a bit I talked to him till I was blue in the face to get him to head for college, to become an engineer since math seemed to be his passion. He didn’t really…
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Never Assume
Justus had just poured the dry ingredients for the waffles we were making in with the wet batter. The Kitchen-Aid was turned on but didn’t get the sides clean. I suggested that Justus get a spatula. He did. But it was a metal spatula, and metal spatulas just don’t work too well when cleaning the sides of a bowl. 🙂 Never assume they know the basics. I felt like I had Amelia Bedilia in the kitchen; you know, the lady who takes everything literally. 🙂 It’s just so completely adorable how these little guys think. Enjoy the moments with your small children today, they pass quickly.
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Commercial Ice Fishing in Canada
It is interesting to see the different flavors of people. For example, I’m quite happy if my house is at least 75°F and get cold very quickly if I step outside to “chilly weather.” Then there’s my son who spent a month and a half in Canada this past November/December. The weather outside would down to -22°F some days and it didn’t bother him a bit! He went there to learn how to commercial ice fish. My sister-in-law’s family has a commercial fishing operation that operates in both the summer and winter. A view of the frozen lake with an island right in the middle where you see the trees. This picture…
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An Unusual Place for an Engagement Party
Did you know it is possible to throw an engagement party in an airport? My dear husband decided we should welcome back the happily engaged couple who had went, along with my son, to a youth retreat in Tennessee and then up to visit friends in Michigan, as well. It was a red-eye flight, the airport was quietening down after a day of thousands bustling through its corridors. Restaurants had closed but not before we had received permission to set up in one of them. Justus and Audrey were so happy to see their brother Zachary. Since he became engaged they have really latched on to him. Pretty nice, Russell. Pretty nice. (I think he…
