What a weekend!

My heart is full and overflowing. Another son has left for a mission for our church. To celebrate, we took many photos, spent time together as a family in the temple, took more pictures and tried to just BE together. One acquaintance with 4 sons often...

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Adventures and Good Times

I made my first bike trip to the grocery store on Wednesday and it went pretty well. I used our old Kiddie Kart trailer and it worked like a charm. This trailer is very easy to haul-I hardly felt it behind me, even with 20 or so pounds of produce on...

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Outside

It is finally starting to feel as if spring has properly come. Yesterday I rode my bike to Savage Mill instead of driving and it was wonderful to feel that air blowing past my face again (especially since my hip didn't hurt a bit). My wild hope, now...

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Better

I'm still fighting something, but I feel a bit better. I'm taking my vitamins and have tried to rest whenever I had the chance. I had a few commitments that were really important to me, so I was glad I felt good enough yesterday to make it through the...

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Blegh

I came home from a youth activity last night, sat on my bed to wind down and fell asleep, in my clothes, glasses on, the whole bit. I proceeded to have bad dreams about all sorts of odd things and woke up feeling rotten, still with my glasses on my head....

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Road Trip!

Once upon a time, two sisters that everyone thought were twins when they were growing up  both got married young and had 5 kids in about 10 years, lickety-split.  Sometimes this sister lived far away and I got to go to Utah to see her youngest...

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The Best Sound

I would have to say that, far and away, my favorite sound in the world is my children's voices. Still. After all these years. I'm sitting here catching up on emails, waiting for a load of laundry to finish, taking care of some record-keeping tasks for...

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A Visit and a Journey

We found out last weekend that my parents would be coming in from Arizona to visit the area because of the funeral of a dear old friend. My dad would be speaking at the service. I thought maybe they would come in for a night or two then head back, but...

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I needed a walk last night in the spring sunset air with the trees full-leafed and sheltering I think my heart was just tired of so many different feelings from recent daysand I needed to give it a rest I have to go slowly now because of constant...

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A Museum Visit

There have been several things of late that are deserving of their own posts, so I'll endeavor to catch up a bit, even if things are out of order. I signed up to be a chaperone on Sara's field trip to one of my favorite museums-The Smithsonian American...

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Seventeen

It hardly seems possible, but today my second youngest and only daughter turned seventeen. We had a regular day, but she was blessed by many small expressions of love from family and friends. We aren't big into gifts just for that day, but we did take...

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Pleasant Days

Lately, the days have been characterized by a lightening perhaps, or a slowing. Things have eased up and there is some margin around the edges of my comings and goings. It has been sweet to have 4 of the 5 children home for a brief time-to see their...

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