tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252665842024-03-14T06:33:29.258-07:00embracing the chaosI'm Holly, mom and wife to this chaotic crew.
We are one homeschooling, military, Jesus-loving, girly family.
I'm an Army brat who married and AirForce guy.
I've lived 12 different places.
I've loved them all.
I'm a homeschool graduate now homeschooling my own girls.
Yes, they are close in age, yes they are twins, yes they are identical, no they do not run in our family, no we're not 'going' for the boy. Yes, my hands are full and I wouldn't change a thing.Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.comBlogger2727125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-26658921580661018042015-02-16T21:35:00.000-08:002015-02-16T21:35:21.785-08:00Basketball Lenora and Sophie 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(Sophie, purple shorts, Lenora, pink shorts)</div>
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Our electricity went out yesterday morning and stayed out for 15 hrs.</div>
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Nothing like going without to make you remember what you have.</div>
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When our electricity goes out, so does our water, because the pump is electric.</div>
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And so does our cell phone coverage.</div>
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And so does our phone, apparently.</div>
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And the generator that came with the house that started up just fine last year, wouldn't start and the $6 phone I bought that says 'WORKS IN POWER OUTAGE' (liars) didn't work. </div>
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This is all really depressing when you can hear all your surrounding neighbor's generators roaring at full blast. </div>
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I think they were actually audibly laughing at us. </div>
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No, I know they were.</div>
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I had to drive down the hill to call anyone .</div>
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Like <b>the power company</b>, whose message on the machine says that you can now check power outages online? um....this makes sense if you live in a city but is almost comical here. </div>
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1 half cleaned fish tank sitting in the kitchen sink because the power went out right in the middle of me cleaning that nasty thing out...</div>
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but not before we discovered that 10 min's prior to me deciding to clean it out, the cat ate the fish.</div>
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The end.</div>
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ME: "_____(insert daughter's name) please go do your school"</div>
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ME: "Noooo!!!! (wait, let me get the camera...but then STOP IT FOR GOODNESS SAKES!)"</div>
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I should just stop buying school items with string.</div>
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<br />Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-70570244894673945432014-12-29T11:30:00.001-08:002014-12-29T11:30:30.673-08:00December thoughts - what is going ON!?<div style="text-align: center;">
1. This month's issue of Voice of the Martyr's has wrecked me all over again.</div>
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Did you see it?</div>
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Stuff straight out of the Old Testament. Only it happened this year. We live in a bubble over here people. The padded room variety.</div>
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You can adopt a front line worker this year...did you know that? </div>
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Like child sponsorship, but adults.</div>
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<a href="https://secure.persecution.com/giftslip/giftslip0714.aspx?land=1">Be cool like me and do it!</a> </div>
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2. I love Christmas cards. Late or not. I really love getting them but my favorite part is going through my address book and remembering the part that each person has played in my story.</div>
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I have a rich rich story.</div>
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There were 185 cards this year. Not 'cause we're cool but because I rarely take anyone off. Because once you're a part of my story, there's no erasing it.</div>
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If you find a tear or two on your card....it's just me. Being uncool.</div>
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(they go in the mail today baby! I managed to track down all the changed addresses except one but they are in Russia so they get the 'it's ok 'cause you live in another country' free pass)</div>
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3. We showed the girls Elf for the first time this year.</div>
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I think that movie is ok. Not like my favorite, just cute. </div>
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BUT<i> it is</i> my favorite movie to watch with Samantha. </div>
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The girl's humor is right up Will Ferrell's alley.</div>
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Sister loves her some burping humor and the escalator scene just about made her pee her pants. </div>
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Her belly laugh was almost too much for me!</div>
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She was curled into fetal position almost the whole movie.</div>
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4. White Christmas (my actual favorite) </div>
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I cry at the last scene when the general comes in...every. single. year.</div>
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Lenora is the girl to watch that movie with. </div>
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That girl picks out the funniest stuff to repeat from movies </div>
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and she has "The Best Things Happen When You're Dancing" song <i>memorized</i>. (she has a lot of other songs memorized from that movie too....but that one is just quirky for her to memorize to me!?)</div>
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Her favorite thing to watch in that movie are people's feet.</div>
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And 'Mutual, I'm sure' is a line that she uses all year long. </div>
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Bet you never even really paid attention to who says that in the movie before...I never had. </div>
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But Lenora....she heard it once and it was locked. The same character says, "Isn't this a lovely party?" later in the movie and that gets repeated all year as well.</div>
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So funny. (do you know the characters name!? we do...)</div>
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4.5. I cry through the entire movie of Nativity Story every year. This year I cried over who Elizabeth was to Mary...like, ugly cried. I think I would have wanted to be Elizabeth in the story.</div>
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5. My kids are hysterical.</div>
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6. I got spoiled for Christmas. My girls are getting old enough to have fashion sense and it's awesome. I will now smell good all year and look good too. No more noodle necklaces will be rocked for now.</div>
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7. Our church does this wild Christmas variety show that literally ate, </div>
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And it was awesome. </div>
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Such a fun memory of learning dance moves, singing, costume making, set building....</div>
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We were all in happy places. </div>
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The music pastor and his family are basically the coolest people on the face of the earth (like...besides you!) and we felt spoiled to get to do this with them and with the whole choir. A++ people.</div>
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There were four performances and we all kinda went (are going through) withdrawal!</div>
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Stop what you're doing right now (like stop reading this) and go get yourself this game on Amazon. Dude. SO FUNNY. So so so funny......</div>
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9. Because A Very Merry Christmas Show ate my December for dinner I was worried that Christmas morning would be a bust. The girls presents weren't, in my opinion, very creative or varied in any way.</div>
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Good news. They had no clue and were more than satisfied. It was a perfect morning.</div>
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11. We got to shoot some real guns a few days later at some friend's house. Dude. I'm redneck way down deep or something because I love shooting a gun (like at a piece of paper or tree stump....let's not get weird and start calling the cops on me or anything. I do not, for the absolute forever record, like to shoot guns at anything other than inanimate objects....however, if you mess with my kids in serious ways...you will become an inanimate object, just sayin'.)</div>
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12. I probably shouldn't blog about guns.</div>
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I'm probably being watched by a drone right now.</div>
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13. The two days after Christmas, this year, were so amazingly relaxing. Like, I didn't do anything kind of relaxing.</div>
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These days need to be scheduled that way every year!</div>
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14. I've had the opportunity this month to flex my photography's flabby muscles.</div>
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1 family photo shoot - 1 really really fast family photo shoot!</div>
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and 1 event where I set up a 'studio' at church and took family photos (and just groups of friends photos!) of people living at a rehab center here in my town.</div>
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15. Lydia did this through most of November and December.</div>
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Her absolute favorite thing to do during any and all games was HIGH FIVE every. single. person. for. every. single. play.</div>
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16. My kids and these candles. It's one of their favorite Christmas 'things'.</div>
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16. Jake and I dominated the ugly sweater Christmas party we went to this year.</div>
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That's what happens when you just up and stop blogging everyday.</div>
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I shouldn't do that.</div>
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was that cute?</div>
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All military wife of me and stuff.</div>
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No?</div>
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You're right.</div>
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I'll try harder next time.</div>
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Now go back to the top and go sponsor a VOM Front Line Worker with me!!!!</div>
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All the cool kids are doing it!</div>
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Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-5772591106654958522014-11-20T16:00:00.000-08:002014-11-20T16:00:05.165-08:00yep.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
my thoughts exactly Lydia.</div>
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my thoughts exactly.</div>
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<br />Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-78735194487009700082014-11-18T13:49:00.002-08:002014-11-18T13:57:10.080-08:00and then they were EIGHT.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
sooooo weird.</div>
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so so weird.</div>
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I have twins.</div>
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And they are eight.</div>
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I'm still not over the news that I'm pregnant with twins.</div>
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And yet, they are eight.</div>
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Did I mention they were eight?</div>
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And so full of spunk it isn't funny.</div>
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Sophie left, Lenora right.</div>
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they requested something remote control, they didn't care what, just remote control.</div>
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Sophie. And no, we do not wait 7 min for her to blow out her candles. We love cake too much for that silly business.</div>
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<br />Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-82300804610105186102014-11-15T11:09:00.001-08:002014-11-15T11:09:46.660-08:00A little bit of 'Fall 2014' catch up...ok, a LOT of catch up, whatever...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Fall Party at some friend's house....</div>
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yes, yes we did this.</div>
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no one got sick.</div>
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no one drowned.</div>
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no one died.</div>
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it was awesome.</div>
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I cut my own hair.</div>
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It takes me like a year to make an appointment and get my hair cut.</div>
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I either have to find someone to watch the kids or take them with me, either way it's a huge process and then I have to make small talk (WHICH I ABHOR!) with someone I barely know for over an hour.</div>
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I leave with a trim, I just do.</div>
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I refuse to go to places like Great Clips.</div>
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Which means I pay a bazillion dollars to make small talk and get a hair cut I just kinda like.</div>
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I rarely LOVE it.</div>
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(In all fairness, I do love the gal I have found here, she is adorable and does a great job....but add up the $$ and the time and the childcare situation and I'm still in the hole on benefits...)</div>
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So....someone (hi Carolanne!) made the suggestion to just teach myself.</div>
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Do some YouTube searches.</div>
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Buy some scissors.</div>
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And do it.</div>
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With no further ado.....</div>
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10pm at night.</div>
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After yoga.</div>
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After a shower.</div>
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Kids tucked neatly (well, ok, just tucked) in bed.</div>
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The Before:</div>
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SOOOO SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!! (did I just post this on the world wide web!?)</div>
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I needed a trim...like bad.</div>
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I wanted layers.</div>
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I used this gals approach for the trim:</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlevrcsvbkI">How to Cut Your Own Hair in Long Layers</a></div>
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and when I got my underneath layer the length I wanted, I skipped over to doing the layers like this:</div>
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(this was stupid easy! like, even if you're stupid, you could do this.)</div>
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BOOM!</div>
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the After</div>
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There are <i>photo bombers</i> and then there are <i>photo enhancers</i>.</div>
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Sophie would be the latter.</div>
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For reals.</div>
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I love it.</div>
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It was easy easy easy!!!!!</div>
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And it was 45 min's.</div>
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And it was free'ish.</div>
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So then I just started lining people up.....</div>
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I cut everyone's hair.</div>
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Samantha had a layer that just wasn't working for me, so I blended it.</div>
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Lydia needed a trim and I framed some layers around her face.</div>
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NO JOKE.</div>
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Lenora and Sophie just wanted a trim.</div>
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Their hair was SOOOOO long that I put it in a pony tail, chopped and then realized that that maybe isn't the safest way to cut a child's hair.</div>
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Um..it was like 6 inches shorter than I was going for.</div>
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Now that their hair is short, we love it and it fits them!</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008TBTAAI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">Here are the scissors I ordered.</a><br />
They are good...I think?<br />
I don't know enough about scissors to say anything other than: they cut.<br />
We all have majorly thick hair and I did find myself constantly having to make smaller sections but that may not have been the scissors, just my lack of knowledge on hair.<br />
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And yes, Jake eventually lined up too!!!<br />
No picture but I have cut his three times now.<br />
I used to cut his hair (like but never liked the way it turned out.<br />
After watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ESWCp8_O0&list=UUunT6woa_R58m7LKY_Xo0aA">this tutorial</a> I realized a 1,000 things I was doing wrong and now we both love the way it turns out.<br />
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BEST PART:<br />
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Get this...<br />
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$46 for Jake's clippers<br />
$15 for the scissors<br />
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$61.<br />
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Less than ONE of my hair cuts.<br />
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Jake was spending $25 every two weeks.<br />
$50 a month.<br />
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If we'd have all gotten our hair cuts:<br />
$70 for me<br />
$50 for Jake<br />
$40 total for the girls.<br />
= $160 in one month.<br />
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Savings: $99 so far!<br />
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Scissors and clippers, the gift that just keeps on givin' baby!<br />
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I'm HOOKED!<br />
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Our local <a href="http://www.pregnancyhelptoday.com/">women's pregnancy clinic</a> has a gala every year.</div>
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If you've known me for like 2 seconds you know I LOVE a good excuse to dress up!!!</div>
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Jake has been volunteering at the clinic for a while now. </div>
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We had a blast dressing up and inviting some friends along to dress up and party for a good cause!</div>
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We love our local clinic.</div>
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They are TOP NOTCH.</div>
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They are even TOP NOTCHER.</div>
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I love it when I hear someone say, "let's do a funny picture!" and then I'm the ONLY one who hears it.</div>
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It was an awesome night!!!</div>
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Thank you to all our amazing friends for saying YES to coming!</div>
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(not pictured are the Collins family!! cause they ran away!!!)</div>
Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-77425432291192003332014-10-01T23:00:00.003-07:002014-10-01T23:00:38.303-07:00just a Wednesday....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Lydia and Samantha's birthdays this year we gave them their first tickets to their very first big concert.</div>
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It was a whole gaggle of popular Christian artists.</div>
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We mainly went to see Jaimie Grace....'cause she the bomb and we dance/sing to her daily.</div>
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What the girls DID NOT KNOW is that I invited a few of their bestie's along as well!!!</div>
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I'm pretty crappy at keeping secrets like this but I totally pulled this one off!!!!!</div>
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My main strategy was to NOT tell Lenora.</div>
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She totally doesn't mean to but just can't help her slips!</div>
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(don't know <i>where </i>she gets that from!?)</div>
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We picked their friends up on the way to the concert and they FLIPPED OUT!!!!</div>
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Samantha and Hannah standing up on their chairs clinging to one another in excitement for the next singer to come out!</div>
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Made Samantha's WHOLE YEAR!</div>
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I missed the whole encounter because I was on my hands and knees in an empty auditorium looking under pews for Lydia's missing glasses.</div>
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Minus Jen, because someone had to take the picture, here was our crew:</div>
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Great memories, great concert!</div>
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Ah!</div>
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Like a month ago.</div>
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She's amazing.</div>
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And that is NOT a joke.</div>
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This kid rocks our whole world daily.</div>
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She is kind. Like, puts-us-all-to-shame-kind kind of kind.</div>
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She is faithful to the end.</div>
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With her promises, with her heart, with her all.</div>
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And she wanted to get her nails did for her party.</div>
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I am still getting used to small townness.</div>
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Did you know that all three nail salons we have in our town are CLOSED on Sundays!?</div>
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Because I am that mom.</div>
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And none of those stop because it's summer, so neither do we.</div>
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I think, if I remember right, school historically stopped in the summer because it was harvest time and kids were busy working on their farms.</div>
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I don't care if anyone else stops, but for us, keeping some semblance of routine just makes sense and it's still fun and because, just like all other things home school, we just can, so we do.</div>
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<i>(That's actually my favorite answer to give people when they ask why we home school: </i></div>
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Now. That doesn't mean there aren't weeks, sometimes several, that we don't do our normal school day. I'm not <i>that</i> girl. (Although sometimes I wish I had more of <i>that</i> girl in me!)</div>
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Two weeks of this summer were filled with camps.</div>
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Fine Arts Camp, Sports Camp.</div>
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But, to me, that is school.</div>
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They are learning something we couldn't really do at home and they are loving learning it.</div>
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Other weeks are filled with trips to Oregon, visiting family, days at the river or lake, long hikes, late nights, sleeping in, watermelon, bbq's, Six Flags, etc....</div>
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But our routine is never far from reach.</div>
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We always go back to it.</div>
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And most summers we at least slow down and spice up the routine.</div>
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Some of this summer's spice are these sweet calendar journals.</div>
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A friend (Hi Becky!) told me she did them with her kids last summer and I have been known to copy a time or two so I figured we'd just make it three and get these bad boys goin'.</div>
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I hand draw/measure the squares for the months lightly in pencil, they do everything else. Sometimes we get a whole week behind, sometimes we are right on top of it. </div>
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This and copying the Bible by hand have been two of my favorite things we've done as far as spice goes.</div>
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Our other routines we keep up:</div>
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'cause even a week or two off wipes math facts clean away, I wish my house cleaned it self the way math facts clean themselves when they are ignored!</div>
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<u><b>Language Arts.</b></u></div>
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<a href="http://www.thephonicsroad.com/">Reading, Writing, Grammar, Handwriting, Spelling.</a></div>
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<u><b>Bible.</b></u></div>
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<a href="http://picturesmartbible.com/">Just started a new program this summer.</a></div>
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It's very cool. We lurv it.</div>
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I'd recommend it whether you home school or not, could totally be done just as a family!</div>
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We just started these this summer and they are amazesauce. Highly highly highly recommend.</div>
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100 books = a fun trip with in a days drive.</div>
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("Math Mode" = since Merlin was a kitten we'd sit down to do school and he'd jump up on the table and start rubbing his face in everyone else's face. For some reason it was always during math.</div>
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This is Lydia, doing math, on the deck, Merlin immediate started rubbing his face on hers. Apparently he doesn't need the table to go into this.</div>
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I do love keeping up with routine.</div>
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It helps me, it helps them.</div>
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I will say though that sometimes, when Merlin goes into "Math Mode"and the sun is shining and you're sitting on the deck, it's very hard to turn mixed numbers into improper fractions!</div>
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A little bit quirky, a lot bit talkative.</div>
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A little bit perfect and a lot bit beautiful.</div>
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The child who made me 'Mommy'.</div>
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It all happened 10 years ago.</div>
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Happy Birthday Sweet Girl...</div>
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Where people go when they have a hankering for buying a small country.</div>
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The one store in town where all countries represent yo! (it's almost like GOING on vacation. almost.)</div>
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The store where all people's are required to leave their maneuvering brains at the front door. It's in the card. You wave your card to get in and your maneuvering brain zaps into the card. BAM! You leave the store and it zaps back in! Magic.</div>
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For reals. Today I felt like I was playing Twister with a crowd of people just to get the dang bacon. I'm flexible but not that flexible! Stop standing in the way of my bacon! Stop making me twist in unladylike positions to get my bacon!</div>
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The store where people go to shop <i>with their kids</i> when they have a hankering to visit a medieval torture chamber. "I just <i>feel like</i> having my spine stretched to unfathomable lengths today while my finger nails are being extracted one by one!"</div>
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Newspaper Titles Reads: <i>Customer left maneuvering brain at the entrance and as a result thwacks young child with shopping cart the size of a small country. Child dies.</i></div>
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The store where people go to shop with their kids when they've forgotten what it was like LAST TIME!?</div>
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#1 - it was the easiest store for me to go to with all four of them because the baskets were big enough for us to use both as strollers AND as a grocery cart.</div>
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#2 - I think I know what it felt like to watch the Red Sea part and dry up.</div>
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It's what it feels like to go through Costco with two buggies, and four babies.)</div>
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Last week was hard on my heart.</div>
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Lots of refining going on.</div>
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We'd already had a weekend away to my Grandpa's wife's cabin in eastern Oregon.</div>
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Lots and lots of pictures.</div>
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No, the pictures do not do it justice.</div>
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THE Cabin. Designed BY my Grandpa!</div>
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The cabin is literally as close to the bank of this river as structurally possible! </div>
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(It's not even legal to do that anymore but they've had the property for so long that it was grandfathered in!)</div>
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It was perfect. The company was special and the place was magical.</div>
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We can't wait to go back!</div>
Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-60931928257132838292014-07-17T09:15:00.002-07:002014-07-17T09:15:18.656-07:00oh no you didn't.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I repeat, DO NOT tell me you have never ridden in a shopping cart late at night in the parking lot of a closed coffee shop.</div>
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Because I WILL remedy the situation and liberate you.</div>
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I don't care how old you are or how many kids you have or what church your husband is a pastor at.</div>
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I will do the right thing.</div>
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Sports Camp this week all around.</div>
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You had me at trucker hat....and then you went and made earrings that spell your names.</div>
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I can't even....</div>
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You're the ketchup to my mustard!</div>
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(sophie ketchup, lenora mustard)</div>
Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-34719146181771977752014-07-15T20:28:00.002-07:002014-07-15T20:28:28.955-07:00todays little thing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The sun on Lenora's blue hair and inquisitive face.</div>
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which allows my dining room table to explode with other less annoying things than beads and thread and paint. </div>
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(I have FOUR daughters....FOUR. Dude. Still weird. Will it ever not be?)</div>
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Crafts, beading, sewing and painting started happening on it and I wondered why I hadn't thought of that before!?</div>
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Happy accident.</div>
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or was it Happy laziness?</div>
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Don't matta' to me, now MY stuff can explode on the dining table instead of theirs.</div>
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Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-53272839315521104152014-07-14T20:45:00.000-07:002014-07-14T20:55:15.795-07:0031 ways to catch up:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our little town....</div>
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Our little Sophie.</div>
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Our little town's rickshaw that our little Sophie took a picture of.</div>
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Marie. All of them. They are all named Marie.</div>
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Working hard. Moving up....or in this picture, UP then DOWN.</div>
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Yes, yes, the dogs get mani/pedi's too. Why not?</div>
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Fine Arts Camp.</div>
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Not sure where she gets that from!?</div>
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Two coasts. East traveled West to fill each other's hearts. Old friends. Beautiful.</div>
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Goldenopoly...pool style.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 15.455999374389648px;"><br /></span>
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I love it!</div>
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So sweet!</div>
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Lovin' every second of this 'big kid' stuff!</div>
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amazing memory.</div>
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Lydia slid on her backside ALL THE WAY down this hill because she thought she saw the golden egg and literally sacrificed her backside to get it.</div>
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It wasn't the golden egg but it was an egg and it was amazing!</div>
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the loot 2014</div>
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and then we ate and talked into the night with amazing friends.</div>
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I had a permasmile on my face the whole next day.</div>
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thank you Schmitts and Trests...it was awesome!!!!!!</div>
Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-26668556682068943062014-04-27T22:27:00.002-07:002014-04-27T22:27:31.287-07:00Easter 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Easter 2014.</div>
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It was a blast!</div>
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All the rest were edited and then Photoshop crashed on me two times.</div>
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I'm no dummy.</div>
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I quit and am just posting them unedited!</div>
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freeing:</div>
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Lenora</div>
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Sophie:</div>
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Lydia:</div>
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Samantha:</div>
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yo:</div>
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<br />Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-60192607679972828162014-04-18T07:49:00.003-07:002014-04-18T07:49:39.414-07:00I have no words.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
cats.</div>
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they are so funny.</div>
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his eyes are not just randomly closed.</div>
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he is asleep.</div>
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very very asleep:</div>
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This is what I had to compete with for our history lesson.</div>
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I can't.</div>
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I can't compete with this Digory.</div>
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final score:</div>
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California History 0</div>
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Digory 1,000</div>
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<br />Hollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12870698663706346467noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25266584.post-44309172357435602972014-04-17T12:26:00.004-07:002014-04-17T12:30:17.583-07:00life as a mama of elementary aged kids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Everyone says it.</div>
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No one really understands it.</div>
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I've had babies before.</div>
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I've had toddlers.</div>
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Lots and lots of toddlers...at one time.</div>
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And I felt so busy.</div>
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My body ached and my mind was spent.</div>
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Many many times, it brought me to tears.</div>
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Schedules, eating times, safe environments, keeping them busy, teaching them, keeping them rested, keeping them fed, keeping them sorta clean.</div>
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Why does this list look so short?</div>
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If you know, you know.</div>
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It's deceivingly short...it's not short.</div>
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But everyone says it.</div>
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'This busy will never end, it will just change.'</div>
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Or maybe it's 'This hard will not end, it will just change.'</div>
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In my exhausted, over spent state during those early early years,</div>
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I didn't believe them.</div>
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Or I didn't understand them.</div>
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Not sure which.</div>
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Maybe I just hoped so bad that they were wrong.</div>
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I'm here now.</div>
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I didn't understand <i>and</i></div>
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They were wrong.</div>
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Phew.</div>
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And I feel the need to document it.</div>
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For my own family record keeping purposes.</div>
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I'm still spent.</div>
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It's a happy spent.</div>
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It's a more comfortable spent.</div>
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It's a peaceful and content spent.</div>
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But I'm still spent.</div>
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I just understand it more now.</div>
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I have a little gift called TIME,</div>
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that I was lacking in those early early years.</div>
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Time for my heart to have adjusted.</div>
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Time to reflect on bad attitudes in my own mind and heart.</div>
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Time for God to have molded my heart and attitude into something a little more presentable.</div>
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Time to capture the truth that there is a much greater purpose and plan going on that I was understanding.</div>
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I'm relaxed.</div>
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In my heart.</div>
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If you know me and using the word 'Relax' to describe myself just made you laugh,</div>
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stop.</div>
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It's not nice to laugh at people!</div>
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But, that shows what God has done.</div>
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Taken a girl who laughs at the word relax, and relaxes her.</div>
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Parenting is no joke.</div>
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It ain't funny.</div>
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Well, actually, the kids are hilarious.</div>
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Like, all the time.</div>
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It's the parents who are no laughing matter.</div>
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They were wrong.</div>
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The hard of the early years is unique.</div>
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If you are there, take heart sister.</div>
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IT ENDS.</div>
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It changes<i> and</i> it ends.</div>
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Maybe I just needed it to end.</div>
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I like to finish things.<br />
I do not like unfinished projects or books or movies or or or.</div>
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Parenting is always hard and always changing.</div>
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That, I guess you could say they were right about.</div>
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Things have changed.</div>
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There are new things that are hard about being a parent, </div>
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every day.</div>
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There are new things about being human every day for that matter.</div>
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I don't have a flippin' clue if what we are doing with our girls and how we are raising them right in this very stage or if I need start saving for counseling because it's just that off....</div>
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....but I have time.</div>
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Time to have understood that no matter how bad I screw this up or don't</div>
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there's a much better Planner at work in the hearts of my kids.</div>
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It is not a cop out - I still feel very accountable to give God glory in my parenting.</div>
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But it is much more relaxing to try and please someOne who made it His life purpose to forgive me.</div>
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It's either Him or the world and we all know how gracious the world is.</div>
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Those early years were all about the world for me.</div>
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Even if that world was only me trying to prove something to me.</div>
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It was still just the world.</div>
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That was hard.</div>
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Really really really hard.</div>
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This is hard, but this is time tested and relaxed.</div>
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Deep down in my soul.</div>
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Judging from my schedule and every day going ons would be deceiving right now.</div>
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Because right now, I'm busier than I've ever been in my life.</div>
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In my head, in my heart, in my kitchen, in the laundry room, every where and any where I look, I'm busier than even the early early years.</div>
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I'm dropping balls all over the place.</div>
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It's a mess! The balls are everywhere!</div>
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But that gift....that precious gift of TIME....</div>
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and what God has done with my heart in that time....</div>
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This busy is busy and the hard now comes with the fact that now I know to give the plans back over to the Planner and sometimes I just forget or most times I just get stubborn.</div>
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That, I'm sure will never change and always be hard.</div>
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But that is a battle I will not give up on.</div>
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I just need more time to practice it.</div>
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