Holiday Cheer

The holiday season is winding down, and we topped it off by visiting the temple to see the lights. It was beautiful as always. I am happy to live so near the temple. Tonight is new year's eve and I am eschewing resolutions in favor of looking back...

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I did not pose these!

Okay, so these are the moments that make all the challenges of mothering worth it. We got our lovely tall Christmas tree yesterday, got out the ornaments, put out the nativities, hung some garland, and generally made the house festive. In the midst...

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My Day-Before-December Garden

We've had a rather warm, wet fall, and this morning when I took Evan to school, I found these valiant little flowers blooming away to welcome the winter. A rosebud appeared a while ago and I've been watching it, hoping it might survive. The frost never...

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After the Storm

We had an apocolyptic storm last night with torrential rain, wind, lightning, thunder, the works. Then it blew out and as the front left, the timing was perfect for the sun to be dipping below the edge of the clouds to set. As is often the case after...

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Beauty and Bounty of the Farmer's Market

Well, these are not artistic photos of produce, but it all looks really pretty on my table. I found wonderful colored cauliflowers in purple, orange and the lovliest green. I found brussels sprouts still on the stalk, giant sweet potatoes and potatoes...

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Twenty Years Marked

Here's Eric and I down in Williamsburg by the Pond next to the Governor's Palace. We had a lovely couple of days and I have to say that this is absolutely my favorite picture EVER of Eric and I. I love the setting, Eric looks good, we look like ourselves...

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All-nighter

When a mother leaves home without her children for any reason, the process can be compared to a space shuttle launch. The preparation involves huge effort focused on escaping from gravity's pull. Most of the fuel is used up for that purpose. Arranging...

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Giant Journaling

Tonight was Giant Journaling. It has become harder for me to go because Eric has appointments on Tuesday nights, but tonight he was free, so I could go! Such good women. Such fun to connect like that. It just does my heart good to be around them....

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Put Your Hands in the Air and Scream!

I'm waiting for the Sunday Ham to cook, Steph's birthday cake is done (We are going over to Mom's as soon as we finish eating) and I am getting ready to make biscuits. I have to time it right, though, so I'll tap out a few thoughts while I wait for...

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More Photography

Today I did a photo shoot with my nephew. We had a great time and these are my favorite shots. He is a senior and he requested that I do his pictures. I have 2 other requests for photo shoots in the hopper and I have to make some serious decisions...

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Photos, phinally.

Okay, so now it is working. Beta-blogger is having known issues with Safari, but I am having trouble with Firefox, too. Gack! Technology. Anyway, The first is the tranquility that I was able to experience with my pals from Cloverhill as we retreated...

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No photos, sorry

For some reason, blogger beta is not letting me upload photos. I am working on it because I really want to write about the view at the lake at the cottage I got to visit on Monday. It was a day of Ahhhh in the middle of the busy fall. A lovely deep...

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This past week has seen that subtle but wonderful shift in the light, the feel of the air on my face and the colors all around me that signifies the autumnal equinox has actually occurred. Today on the way home from church we noticed a tree beginning...

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New York, New York

I wanna be a part of it-New York, New Yo-ork...Bah bah badada, bah bah badada, bah bah badada dum...This past weekend, my dear friend Guinevere put together a sort of reunion weekend so that all her good friends who had never met could finally meet....

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Seminary and the computer lives!

Well, seminary is off to a pretty good start. I have 20 attending regularly. Brent tried for a couple of days then gave up. That broke my heart a little, but he may let me work with him on a home-study basis. That would be a good thing. The other...

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Waxing Poetic for My 40th Birthday

Sunshine on My ShouldersSo, my other blog is supposed to be all about knitting and I felt conflicted when I would want to just write. So, here I will just write. I will post my poems, my photos that have nothing to do with knitting and maybe I'll relax...

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