Bookworm Wednesday – on WEDNESDAY!!!

Unfortunately, I have no new book news to report. The dreaded stomach bug hit the men in our house hard this past weekend, and is still slowly exiting. I will spare you the details, as they are beyond ugly. Needless to say, I haven’t been so focused on reading. I AM still working on Twilight, [...]

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Bookworm Wednesday on Thursday – AGAIN

So…it’s been a week…and here I am, late again with Bookworm Wednesday!
For me, not a whole lot of reading ground was covered this week – it was a busy one. I’m still working on Twilight (well over half-way through it), and I did manage to finish Anne Ortlund’s Disciplines of the Heart, which I found [...]

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Bookworm Wednesday (on Thursday)

So it’s only week 1 of my “Bookworm Wednesday” initiative (read more about it here) and I’m already a day late in posting. Oh well.
Anyway, here’s where I’m at with my reading. So far this year I have completed 2 books (that I happened to start in 2008 )! The books I have completed so [...]

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A Birthday Wish

Happy Birthday

to the man who brings me much joy…

…the man that I love…
…home-slices forever.

p.s. W. says Happy Birthday, too.

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A Little Political

OK, allow me to get just a little political for a moment here.
There are, obviously, a lot of things happening in our country now that shouldn’t be happening…and, in the grand scheme of things, I realize that this is — morally speaking, at least — somewhere down at the bottom of the priority list.
HOWEVER, as [...]

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Quotes of the Day

Quote #1:
Today I was teaching preschool at co-op. Our “color for the day” was white, so during circle-time I asked the children “What are some things in this room that are white?”
So one sweet little 3-year-old raised her hand and said “My mom!” (who happened to be the helper in the class today).
I caught her [...]

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A New Year’s Contest

Inspired by this article I read on boundless.com,  I realized that reading used to be one of my top hobbies, but lately, in the wake of the internet and other distractions, it’s dropped to the bottom of my list. I decided that one of my new year’s resolutions would be to read as many books [...]

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Notes from My Prison

I write this as a prisoner, trapped in my own home.
At my dining room table, to be precise.
Just a few minutes ago, I was a free woman, sitting here at my dining room table preparing to feed my son breakfast as he beside me in his high chair. His oatmeal was on the stovetop, and [...]

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