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{31 Days of Real Life} Camera Phone Friday: What I Ate and Where I’m Going Next Week Edition
1. Doubt this is supposed to be scary, but it is (why is she biting her finger?), 2. Sombrero shopping, 3. Fried rice, hibachi style, 4. I may be eating late, but this BLT (oops - no L) looks kinda sorta perfect, 5. Blueberry pancakes in the works, 6. Dutch Puff with...
31 Days of Real Life: The Lasting Effect of Memory Work
Do you realize that those crazy rugrats running around your house have an amazing capacity for memorization? Don't squander it! I wrote about it almost exactly 2 years ago, but the lesson was driven home to me again today by an example from my own childhood. I...
31 Days of Real Life: You are More Than Your Stats
I'd be lying if I said blogging doesn't make me feel like I'm still in high school sometimes. Not the good parts—being young and healthy and able to eat whatever I want without gaining weight—but the ugly stuff: insecurities, doubts. Documenting pageviews and...
31 Days of Real Life: The Lord Provides
One day a week I teach five subjects to a class of homeschool sophomores. This is my second year so I've done it all before, but sometimes things still slip up on me. On the way to church I realized that we're studying mold—bread or cheese—under a microscope this...
{31 Days of Real Life} The Joy of Surprising a Friend: The Boo Bag
When Collective Bias asked members if they'd be interested in putting together and mailing a "boo bag"—a gift bag full of Mars candies and decorated for the fall season—to another Collective Bias member, Stacie at The Divine Miss Mommy immediately came to mind. Stacie...
31 Days of Real Life: A Living Sacrifice
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. ~Romans 12:1 We've discussed how life can be difficult, particularly Sundays. Avoid the easy way out:...
31 Days of Real Life: When Life is Hard
This week's 31 Days of Real Life posts showed the good, the fun, and the lovely in the every day. To be perfectly honest, that's really not what this week has been for me, and I promised myself I'd keep it real when I chose this topic. Empathy makes us vulnerable....
{31 Days of Real Life} Camera Phone Friday: Apple Updates Edition
1. Threatened withholding of Klondike Bars ensures completed assignments & finished lunches :), 2. Thank you @jessicanturner for this from our dear @GitzenGirl!, 3. This is what happens when you eat the chocolate coating off an ice cream bar & then eat the ice...
31 Days of Real Life: Taking the Family to Disney on Ice Dare to Dream
Wednesday evening eight of us attended opening night of Disney on Ice Dare to Dream at Atlanta's Philips Arena. Dare to Dream combines story lines and characters from two new movies, Tangled and The Princess and the Frog, and one classic, Cinderella. Not to steal...
31 Days of Real Life: Fun at the Lake (Wordless Wednesday)
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