a day in the life Archives - Page 54 of 62

Hospitality without Grudging

by Dawn Camp | Jan 5, 2008 | a day in the life, faith, family & friends, featured

This new year has been busy and I haven’t had time to properly sit and make my resolutions. I love analysis, resolving to live better, the feeling of a fresh start (recommended reading in this area includes these posts from my cousin Queen Shenaynay at the...

Praying for Rain

by Dawn Camp | Dec 21, 2007 | a day in the life, faith, family & friends

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!

by Dawn Camp | Dec 20, 2007 | a day in the life, featured

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...

October and November Swaps

by Dawn Camp | Dec 10, 2007 | a day in the life, homeschooling

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...

The Drama Queen strikes again

by Dawn Camp | Dec 1, 2007 | a day in the life, family & friends, kid funnies

Our guinea pig died last night. Our precious retired neighbors took our five youngest to eat breakfast with Santa this morning, so no one noticed in the rush to get them out the door at 8 a.m. (my husband realized it after they were gone). With a day full of...

I can’t wait!

by Dawn Camp | Nov 20, 2007 | a day in the life, reading

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about Pride and Prejudice, but it hasn’t been available the library. I finally checked out the book on CD thinking I would listen while I design, but apparently I’m unable to concentrate fully on two things at once....