Yes, It's a California Post

I'm in the lobby of a chain hotel with a lovely fireplace and the smell of free breakfast in the air: coffee, syrup, and sausage. The tv is playing infomercials (Nutri-Bullet right now,  before was Wen and before that Insanity) and I've been out...

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And Now For Something Completely Different

Nope, it's not knitting, or photography, or even cooking. Not tonight. Tonight was rubber stamping. Yep, that thing I used to do constantly from the time I was about 14 years old but that I haven't done for about 5 or 6 years.  I was SO...

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My Part of the Story

Little Feet Did you know? I'm a grandmother. I really am!  This past week I got to meet a new little person and it was amazing. She's not mine to introduce to you, but I can tell you some wonderful things. But first, here are the answers to...

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The Present Day

I've been working so hard at catching up on the last 4 months that I've lost the thread of what's happening now. And I all have to show for the attempted traveloguing is a bunch of drafts. I have to get writing again about the things that I'm experiencing...

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This Is Really Happening!

There is a sense of heightened everything in my life right now. From the mundane to the precious, it all seems exaggerated.  This weekend, my 4th child and only daughter will be set apart from her peers and her usual pursuits and take on herself...

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Well, Now I Know

My eye, as sketched by me.  Thanks Dr. Strong. This explains a lot. All my life, I've had to sort of turn on and turn off my eyes. I never failed an eye screening or struggled in school or to read, because I was really good at making the switch...

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Some Urban Outfitting, a Wedding and a Trek.

Today is one of those transitional days between summer and autumn that defines the word delightful. The scene around me is colorful with blue skies, golden sun, and green leaves; comfortable with cool air and breezes; and slightly magical with...

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Sam Comes Home

As promised, here is the first installment in my retroactive recount of the last three months of Absolute Crazy: The Odyssey Known as Summer 2013 got started on a wonderful high note June 4th when Sam got home from his mission to Anaheim, California....

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A Strange View

Sometimes I have so much to write about and so many other things to do that I get hopelessly behind, as I am now. So, I'm going to begin where I am and add in posts about the past weeks as I get photos organized and ideas captured. One big thing...

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The Call to Serve

I haven't written about Sam coming home yet. I haven't written about all the fun things I'm doing right now, which is a LOT, but for the moment I'm going to write about this, then I'll get back to my regularly scheduled life, because I've been waiting...

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My kids

I spent the weekend in Utah visiting my kids who live out there. It was filled with some fun activities, many good meals together, laughter, talking and general good times. It's nearly surreal to watch your children be grown-ups, yet at the same...

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Tending Other Gardens

Last year, the scouts were gathering at my house to leave for a week-long camping trip. As we were standing around waiting, the leader, a man I greatly respect and genuinely like, and who is incredibly accomplished and knowledgable in many subjects,...

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Changes Afoot

I'm renovating my blog. Stay tuned. Soon the url will lose the .blogspot, and I'm trying out new templates. I'm also playing around with new names so that my blog can reflect all the things I'm interested in and be an easy place to find my family adventures,...

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Close To My Heart

In my church, everyone is an active participant in the actual organization. Unless you choose not to, if you come to church even semi-regularly, you'll have a job to do, either something specific on Sundays, during the week at auxiliary activities (Youth...

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My Adrenal System is Fine

Sometimes you get a call from your son at 6:03 am and you hear the beep of an open car door but no voice on the other end. You yell into the receiver and hear nothing, then the line goes dead. Panic rises in your throat, but you hope like crazy that...

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Late Winter

I'm getting excited for the proper beginning of spring. I went outside yesterday to jump on the trampoline (more fun and less impact than running) and got a bit of a start on the yarn clean-up that needs to happen in the next week or so. Soon it will...

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