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Kids Spotlight: End of 2025-2026 School Year
It’s the end of the school year! L earned an “All A’s – 4.0 GPA” Award at school that came with a certificate, complete with a nice gold foil stamp on it! She…
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Mother-Daughter Dates 2026 So Far
This year we decided to try a little something different with our parent-and-kid dates. The kids each get $20/month for their date, and can roll any left over into the next month. L…
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March Moments in Photos
We’ve had some slower times lately, and Jer made delicious warm meals for us in his skillet and Dutch oven pot. He rode bikes with the boys to their school. They had some…
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February Family Updates
Our very dead Christmas tree is still up. I cooked for the first time in months (Peruvian chicken, Mexican Picadillo, chicken tortilla soup) and this crew must be desperate for home cooked meals…
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Be My Valentine
I ordered the kids’ classroom exchange cards online because I haven’t had time to go to a store. Feels kinda apathetic but I’m at a “whatever is convenient- done is better than perfect”…
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Creative Kids… Back In My Day
Fletcher has this icebreaker idea at the dinner table where we pretend we are old folks. In a silly almost Southern accent he says things like, “Back in my day, we didn’t have…
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Burger Restaurant Mother-Daughter Date
Our mother-daughter dates this year continue! This month we had a special sit-down dining experience somewhere we wouldn’t normally go. L chose to have juicy burgers because she was famished after we visited…
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Kids September Update
Soccer season is done and I’m so relieved! What with baby coming a lot earlier than expected, we’ve had some tender mercies including all our kids having the same coach so able to…
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Mother-Daughter Book Club Date
We actually chose Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen as our book to read, however I did not finish it… but you know what book we both have read? She read it in…
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Happy 14th Birthday, Lily!
L has had some pretty epic birthdays in the past since she’s our firstborn and only daughter. This year’s celebrations are small and simple in comparison, but I hope that our children know…
