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Relaxing into Advent

by beth November 29, 2011

I always tend to feel anx­ious around any hol­i­day or hol­i­day cel­e­bra­tion, as in the “This is going to be a beau­ti­ful freak­ing hol­i­day dang it!!” crazy woman feel­ing.  In many ways it is my anx­ious nature that makes it eas­ier for me to appre­ci­ate the Advent sea­son.  I know that sounds con­tra­dic­tory but hey […]

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What a Turkey!

by beth November 26, 2011

Relax­ing today. Enjoy­ing the long week­end. Lis­ten­ing to my kids argue over who would be the biggest turkey at din­ner if they were turkeys and not kids. How did they end up in that con­ver­sa­tion you might ask? But really…Don’t even ask. Seri­ously. Don’t.  My head still hurts from ask­ing. And mar­veling at the adorable […]

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Oh, Perry the Platypus Cupcakes

by beth November 21, 2011

When talk­ing with Mr. G about what kind of birth­day party he would like and par­tic­u­larly what kind of cake he said. “Not cake, cup­cakes!” Ok, What kind of cup­cakes then?  “Oh…Perry the Platy­pus ones!” Which meant I had to fig­ure out how to make them. After scour­ing the inter­net I found a sim­ple idea on […]

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Out of This World Gratitude

by beth November 18, 2011

Today we are all enjoy­ing Mr.G’s shar­ing of his new kit on space explo­ration that we gave him for his birth­day.  Last night he started putting it together.  Today he is read­ing to us about the solar sys­tem & get­ting show off one of his gifts. I have also never seen a birth­day kid so excited […]

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