Tag Archives: Children

Simple Sunday – The Things Found at the End of our Hallway

This morning I slept in.  I laid in bed and listened to the boys playing in their not so quiet way.  I heard Husband make the coffee.  When I got out of bed this is what I found at the … Continue reading

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Mini Math Muffins

This year not only did I sign up to be one of the room moms in Cody’s classroom (something I vowed I would not do again) but I also signed up to help out with the school’s largest fundraiser, XtraMath.  … Continue reading

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Excuse Me Ma’am but There’s a Fly in My Bowl

I don’t like fish.  They swim around and around, staring with their big unblinking fisheyes.  They don’t just quietly hang out, oh no, they lurk and lurking in my book is plain creepy. Fish.  They unnerve me mostly because I … Continue reading

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Where Are You?

It is close to dinnertime.  I am in the kitchen cooking.  The pots and pans are being rattled, the water turns on and off, a timer beeps alerting me that something is done or needs to be checked.  I am … Continue reading

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Simple Sunday – Listening to Carter’s Bones

Carter does not have school on Friday.  To entertain ourselves we went to a local playground.  As we were almost there Carter spied a trail he wanted to check out and told me his bones were telling him they needed … Continue reading

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Beer Goggles Carter Style

I was looking through old photographs for a picture of Carter as a little guy to put in my Skater Boy post and came across this picture from June of 2010. It made me laugh out loud and I love … Continue reading

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Hanging with the Skater Boys on a Tuesday Afternoon

Ever since Carter can remember, he and I have been making almost weekly trips to the local skate park.  When he was a baby and a small toddler he rode in his stroller and later, as the years went by, … Continue reading

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The Cat Conundrum Continues

I don’t know about you but when I hear about a child being abducted, it chills me to my core.  When I hear that the child was abducted by family, for wrong or right, it lessens my horror, especially if … Continue reading

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Simple Sunday–Café Cody

One morning Cody asked me to help him write a menu for his café, I transcribed his dictation. I do not see myself going there for a cup of coffee any time soon.

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Fort Flagler – One Point on the Triangle of Fire

I will never be a historian or a historical writer so if you want the history of the three forts Fort Warden, Fort Casey, and Fort Flagler that make up the “Triangle of Fire” you have come to the wrong … Continue reading

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