Adventures
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Year of Mother-Daughter Experiences 2025
Daughter is turning 14 this year! Not sure how, but our “Dates” become more fun every year and she has grown to expect and love these, and refuses to have them stop! I’ve…
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Winter Break: Christmas Vacation
We had a lovely Christmas at home! Then it was: Play, read, eat, repeat. There was lots of Star Wars from watching the movies together (we borrowed every one we don’t own from…
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Year of Mother-Daughter Dates 2024
In-depth inspiration for this year’s ideas here. Here are the Mother-Daughter Date ideas for this year (click on each title to check it out in more detail): Here are some photos to help…
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Christmas 2024
Jer and I were both sick around Christmas, but he still cooked a very special Dutch oven dinner with bbq chicken and potatoes we had with salad and fruit punch. That man amazes…
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November Snapshots
It’s really exciting for me as a parent to experience in the audience all the hard work these musicians have done with practicing their pieces. I’m so thankful to be able to sit…
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Christmas Tree Lot
The place in Elk Ridge where we used to get our Christmas trees outgrew their yard and moved to a local nursery. They still sold hot cocoa (this time with a Hawaiian theme…
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Natural Curiosity Museum
This sweet boy asked me to go with him on his field trip, and we had a blast together. I packed our lunches and he was very concerned that we get to school…
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Picnic Mother-Daughter Date
L and I were having an impromptu sleepover when we woke up in the middle of the early morning and started laughing our heads off planning this picnic. It’s been overdue since June,…
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Hobbits for Halloween
Pumpkin Carving Trick or Treating I’m glad that I still get to take the kids trick or treating! We had to adapt some of our Hobbit / LOTR costumes for colder weather since…
