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Category Archives: forgiveness
A Blogger’s Dream
Tuesday, October 20th 2015 Wait. Let me tell you how disgusting and spoiled I am. Here I am, lying in my filth, doing my favorite thing in the world (blogging, aka: electronic scrap-booking), when Dear Hubsand casually comes in and … Continue reading
Posted in domestic life, faith, food, forgiveness, health, love, marriage, mental health, work
Tagged Bacon gives him a lardon, Bacon Gives Me a Lardon, blogging in bed, blogging while eating, breakfast in bed, genius in a bowl, Manmeat, Peter Parker, photographing food, while the kids are away..., work-life balance
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Family Values
Sunday, October 18, 2015 In our entire marriage until now, the only value that Paul and I have managed to establish as a a hard and fast rule in our flamly goes like this: CIRCUSKITCHEN FLAMLY CREED: … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, forgiveness, health, love, marriage, mental health, parenthood
Tagged big bed, Dad's nads, decision making tool, Dr. Suess, family bed, Family Creed, family values, fart, Fart don't shart, Flamly, Flamly Creed, heart to fart, Hop on Pop, India rain, restorative justice, shart, the good doctor, unwritten creed
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Missed the Bus
Monday, September 21st 2015 How to awake this piece of confection from her angelic slumber in my bed? I mean seriously: Then while dressing, we hit a fashion snafu: Somehow we all spill out to the bus stop, … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, forgiveness, health, love, mental health, parenthood, patience
Tagged #lastnightsmakeup, angelic slumber, angels in my bed, ASL, basketball, bus, bus stop, confection, confection in my bed, fashion snafu, i love you, last night's makeup, missing the bus, one footed, post apocalyptic, Purple Dragon, sacred in the mundane, sign language, sock, tiger car
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Tunbridge Fair 2015
Friday-Sunday, September 18th-20st 2015 In honor of Miles’ & Bubble Wow’s birthdays, the family trekked up to one of our old favorite haunts in Vermont: The Tunbridge WORLD’S Fair. I stayed back to grind away at work but came along … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, education, faith, family, food, forgiveness, Friendship, health, love, mental health, nature, parenthood, patience
Tagged $1 bills, baby lop, Baby Mary, bathing beauties, Bubble Wow, burlap sac, carney bosoms, carnival games, carnival rides, cavalcade of animals, cheetahs chasing impalas, cute fuzzy baby animals, Dell, holding Daddy's hand, King Arthur Flour, Midway, Miles, Montshire Museum, musical fence, musical rock boxes, Norwich VT, pile of baby lops, state fair, sugar babes, Tunbridge Fair
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Guess Who’s NOT at School?
Tuesday, September 8th 2015 2015-09-08 CJ PIX [29 seconds]: Mommy’s “lipgloss” she also “borrowed.” *Four* years old, full of beans & entering Junior Kindergarden as a “Second Year Student.”
Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, food, forgiveness, love, mental health, parenthood, patience, work
Tagged back to school, Camera Phone, children, CJ, Daddy's phone, digital devices, home from school, kind of, kinda sorta, sort of
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Camping! – Otter River State Forest Movie
Labor Day Weekend 2015 (Fri. 9/4 – Mon. 9/7) Summer culminated in our much anticipated camping trip for the whole long weekend. (#nogigs!) We didn’t care much where we ended up; there are so many wonderful state forest … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, education, faith, family, food, forgiveness, Friendship, health, love, marriage, mental health, nature, parenthood, patience, work
Tagged back to school, campfire, camping, end of summer, fairy house, fishing, frogging, Labor Day Weekend, Otter River State Forest, two tents
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FIT GIRL
Thursday, August 27th 2015 Sometimes my husband and daughter work out: EXTREME FIT GIRL [14seconds]: While checking out of Trader Joe’s and feeling tense on account of the above depicted *FIT* -which Paul had mercifully taken out into the … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, education, faith, family, forgiveness, health, love, marriage, mental health, parenthood, patience, work
Tagged 14 y/o, 14 years old, adorable, apocalyptic fit, DLove, Fit Girl, Huzzah, Jesus, parenting, Parenting Life, parenting trenches, post apocalyptic fit, screaming tantrum, SO ADORABLE, Trader Joe's, what would Jesus do, working out
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Pritchard Plymouth Invasion 2015
August 15th-22nd 2015 Pritchard Plymouth Invasion 2015 [3mins,5secs]:
Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, food, forgiveness, Friendship, health, love, mental health, nature, parenthood, patience, work
Tagged 49 Provincetwonview Rd., Auntie Lolo, beach, beach fire, Boharts, Chico, family vacation, fire, fire pit, fishing, Grandpa Pops, Greg, Gregory, Lauren Ruth Ward, Laurie, Liz, lobster, Lucy, Oberhausers, Olivia, Plymouth, Pops, Pritchard, Provincetown, That's Life, Uncle Chris, Zachary
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NO THEY’RE NOT
Monday, August 3rd 2015, TMI continued In the wake of getting them GONE, I indulged in the extraordinary pleasure of a grownup social visit with a friend, SANS kids. Well sort of, since it was to visit my treasure of … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, domestic life, education, faith, family, forgiveness, Friendship, health, love, marriage, mental health, patience, work
Tagged artwork, biking, C.W. Tae Kwon Do, Chloe Belle, Christina's Homemade Ice Cream, Christina's Ice Cream, ClaraJane, Dad, day camp, DLove, elementary school, Fluff, Fluff n' Nutter, Nutter, pick up, pick up disaster, pick up time, Rachel, Summer Camp, Tae Kwon Do, Tobin Camp
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Tattoo Chronicles Continued
Wednesday, July 29th 2015 Oh have you got enough of this topic yet? Well sorry but outletting my excitement here is the only chance I have of not ruining this for my daughter. I try to invite and encourage her, … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, bossy girl, City of Cambridge, ClaraJane, closing shop, Fluff, Jenny the Juggler, soothing, Summer in the City, tattoo parlor, tattoos, temporary tattoos
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