Around the last Monday in May, Seth and I sat down with the boys for Family Home Evening and made a list of all the things we wanted to do over the summer; things that would make our summer awesome.  We also talked about using time well to ...

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       Once a year, Jewish people throughout the world participate in a practice called Bedikat Chamatz.  This is where all traces of leaven are removed from the house in order that the home may be perfectly "clean" during the celebration of ...

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     Ashton has a wonderful and distinct personality that can be quite well characterized by the way he initially chose to make his entrance into my world.  I woke up one Sunday morning, a month before my due date, feeling ever so slightly...odd.  ...

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Birthday parties.  The observable evaluator of a mother's affection for a child and rightful place in the "good mommy" classification.  At least this had always sort of been my impression of them as I had stalked read the many blogs, noticed the ...

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Every now and then, I do something really stupid.  The kind of stupid that might make one wonder if there needs to be an intervention in the near future.  Most of the time, I'm okay with these periodic lapses in cognitive aptitude because they remind ...

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        I love February.  I love that my boys don't mind Valentine's day and that I get to finally bring some pink into the house without complaint!  I love that we are in the throes of basketball calendar chaos and I get to watch my boys display ...

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So...blogging is new for me.  I feel about as comfortable with this practice as I do when one of my children asks me a question like, "Did Jesus make the dinosaurs when he made the animals, or were they here on the earth before that?"  Ikes.  ...

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