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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Simple Sunday – Mojitos, Pie & Friends
Yesterday we hosted our second annual Summer Pie Day, one of the many made-up, food centric, family holidays that we celebrate. The adults enjoyed refreshing mojitos using this recipe although modified to include mint instead of basil. The kids set … Continue reading
Posted in Food Glorious Food, Simple Sunday
Tagged Children, Family, Food, Friends, Holidays, Lemonade, Life, Mojito, Outdoors, Pie
17 Comments
Babies Come From Vashon Island
Several weeks ago we were invited to a friend’s birthday party which was located on a piece of private beach attached to their neighborhood community center. The open aired structure and bbq area sit atop a grassy hill that slops … Continue reading
Posted in Little Feet
Tagged Babies, Children, Family, Humor, Kids, Life, Nature, Outdoors, Puget Sound, Strawberry Festival, Vashon Island, Vashon Island Strawberry Festival
16 Comments
Simple Sunday – Summer Squash
Today I stayed indoors all day despite the lovely weather so as to finish a concept paper for my Reading and Language Arts class that is due tomorrow. Writing school papers does not make for good blogging material (even though … Continue reading
Posted in Simple Sunday
Tagged Children, Family, Garden, Home, Kids, Language Arts, Outdoors, School, Summer squash
8 Comments
I Still Can’t Believe They Print This Stuff!
Here is the link to my latest newspaper article that ran in the paper on Monday. This is my fifth article since I was offered a chance to be one of five reader columnists for The News Tribune for this … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging/Writing
Tagged Blogging, Columnist, Mormon, Nauvoo, Self-reflection, The News Tribune, Writer, Writing
9 Comments
Simple Sunday – Scrap Wood
One thousand two hundred and twenty pounds of scrap wood loaded into our trailer, driven to the dump, and unloaded from our trailer. Not bad for a Sunday morning. I am sure that Husband and I would not have been … Continue reading
Posted in Simple Sunday
Tagged Children, Kids, Life, Outdoors, safety traffic cones, Yard work
8 Comments
Wishing on a Rock
Yesterday I was a rock star. After creating a lesson plan and presenting that lesson to a group of my cohorts (((who had to pretend to be six and seven year olds (my lesson was teaching near-doubles addition to a … Continue reading
Posted in Little Feet, On Becoming a Teacher
Tagged Beach, Children, Education, Family, Lesson plan, Life, Nature, Outdoors, School, Wishing Rocks
15 Comments