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Happy New Year!
From my family to yours, have a blessed new year!
Merry Christmas in Song
Go here to listen to three minutes and twenty-nine seconds of Christmas cheer! The old version of The Little Drummer Boy always gets to me. I remember how my mother sang it, rolling the "r" in "rum pum pum pum." I heard Snoopy vs. The Red Baron on the radio the other...
Praying for Rain
We are facing a serious drought in our neck of the woods. Friends of ours own a lake house; my first post on this blog was from Memorial Day 2006, which we spent there with them. Here is a photo from that post (my husband is the cutie driving the jet ski): See the...
Whoop-Wii!
This post has been brewing in my head the last few days and was originally to be entitled something like "Wii Schmee" (a less-than-inspired title), until an unexpected twist altered the ending today. My 12-year-old asked for a Wii for Christmas. I told him that we...
My foray into OpenID
I recently experienced difficulty commenting at my Blogger friends blogs using my WordPress blog's URL. Many of you had comments from me that basically said, "Please allow anonymous commenting on your blog again. It is only allowing registered Blogger users to...
Wordless Wednesday: Sleepy Head
Visit 5 Minutes for Mom for more Wordless Wednesdays.
My little cover boy
We recently attended the Christmas concert for our children's music program, and were pleased and surprised to discover our son on the cover of this year's concert program. I hate to admit that I had never gone online and viewed the proofs from yearbook photo day. In...
Girls’ Day Out
My two oldest daughters celebrate birthdays this week. We have combined them, for the most part, since the week of their second and fifth birthdays, when the two-year-old had a nervous breakdown because her sister was opening her presents and she was told her birthday...
October and November Swaps
The Homeschool Blog Awards site is coordinating a monthly swap. I had never heard of a swap, but it has been great fun. Summer at Mom is Teaching was my October swap partner and I received the following goodies, which my daughters immediately tried to confiscate: The...
Christmas blog designs for Blogger
If you're looking for a Christmas blog design for your Blogger blog, please visit my design site, Barefoot Blog Designs. You'll find links in the top of the sidebar for the 4 Christmas templates that are available. Here are previews of each; if you click on the image,...
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