a singer

There is nothing better than hearing your two-year-old sing All Things Bright and Beautiful with gusto. Except maybe for realizing that she’s actually singing the right notes.*
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*We love both of our darling daughters immensely, and they have different strengths and blessings. Our firstborn is blessed with being able to remember songs well and make a [...]

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7 weeks, 4 days – Things I Love

I could talk about all of the things that make me nauseous this pregnancy. That list would be abundant and filled with all sorts of thing I should be eating. But I shall not make that list. Instead, today, I’m going to talk about good food that I currently love:

Seaweed Soup – Mmmmmmmmmm! My recipe [...]

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Happy Blogiversary to Me!

Three years ago, I was a new(ish) mom to one toddler. We lived in Michigan in a new house that we built; it sit on a cul-de-sac in a nice suburban neighborhood. We had a big backyard, we were planning our first vegetable garden. I still enjoyed eating a considerable amount of junk food, and [...]

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Welcome to My New Blog! (And Announcement #2!)

So, here’s my new blog home! Don’t forget to change your feed readers and links. Can you believe that tomorrow is my three year blogiversary? I certainly can’t. I had long ago gotten tired of some of my limitations with my free LiveJournal account, but I was hesitant to switch. I didn’t want to lose [...]

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The Announcements

I had to laugh this morning when I went to Bible study and discovered what kind of anxiety I was causing among my friends. So, without further delay, here is Announcement #1:
I have a new blog!
That’s right, folks. After three years, this blog is moving. I will update this location once or twice more in [...]

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home again, and things to come

1.) We’re home! Jason’s safely home from a mission trip to Jamaica with students, and I safely drove 16 hours round-trip alone with two little girls. It helps that our family strategically located themselves all over the state of Michigan, so that I never had to drive more than five hours at one stretch. But [...]

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Ellery is TWO!

Today is my darling baby’s birthday. It’s hard to describe how quickly time passes when you have children. It’s also difficult to write in words how much I love my children.
To see what Ellery (and Maya) is up to, hop on over to her blog.

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eczema update

Maya’s eczema is improving. The lanolin was the only thing to help–sticky, gooey, difficult-to-apply, lanolin. But even this only slowed down the spread. So, we started the steroid cream a couple of days ago. We will treat it until it’s nearly gone, then stick to lanolin only.
Too bad lanolin’s so expensive! We need a sheep [...]

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dirt cheap diapering

Things are looking up. I was hit by the worst cold I’ve had in a long time, but I’m on the mend. Thank God!
Interested in cloth diapering, but don’t have the money for it all up front? Check out Fern and Faerie’s Frugal Diapering pages. Great ideas for recycling/repurposing things to make diapers!

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a break

Hello there!
I’m taking a little blog break because my sinuses are crowding my brain. And, for some reason, I find it hard to type when I can’t breathe for all the snot dripping out of my nose.
And with that, I bid you good night.

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