Author Archives: Rachel

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Exhibits 657 & 658 Prove Childhood Insanity

June 3, 2010 – 4:21 pm

Long have I claimed that children are a little loose in the screws, but now I have photographic evidence. You know how most people sleep in their beds with actual blankets covering them? Well, my smaller girls have decided that something so pedestrian really will not do and have come up with alternative sleeping arrangements: [...]

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Anika Shubin, Baseball Star

May 30, 2010 – 6:35 pm

I finally got a new camera battery a few weeks ago, and since then I’ve been taking tons of pictures. Consequently, I have multiple items I wish to blog about. Luckily for you, I plan spread them out over a few posts; however, today I have something too awesome to wait.
The kids’ baseball games [...]

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Spelling Bliss!

May 28, 2010 – 2:34 pm

Happily, today is one of those together days. Georgie got a 96% on his grammar test, and all three of the girls got 100% on their spelling tests. Yay! I teach good. Yeah sure, I suppose they may have had something to do with it.
This is Kyra’s first year of school (she’s five, turns six [...]

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Henry’s Friday Morning

May 21, 2010 – 12:47 pm

Good morning, world, I thought to myself as I popped out of bed this morning. It was 8:30 and the whole house was quiet. Even Georgie was still asleep in the top bunk of my bed. I’ll go upstairs and see Mom.
Hmmm, everything was quiet upstairs, too. Maybe I’ll just peek in her bedroom [...]

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Yesterday Naked, Today Dressed. Well, Maybe Not So Naked….

May 1, 2010 – 3:38 pm

I must say though, that this has been a productive morning. It is that time of year again when I realize that summer and/or Family Camp are merely weeks away and my children may not or may have nothing whatsoever to wear. Yesterday’s quick perusal of their under-the-bed boxes of clothing-to-grow-into confirmed that at their [...]

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Blog Guilt, Biz Closure, Homeschool, and Near Death (Just a Few Little Things….)

December 29, 2009 – 12:18 am

Wow, it’s been five months since I last posted. Grandpa, I’m so sorry! (My Grandpa regularly comments on how much he likes hearing all the family news since they live in AZ). So, here’s the quick update for the three of you who don’t know:
Thanks to el crappo economo, my website business started tanking in [...]

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Fall Consignment Sale Events

September 12, 2009 – 6:27 pm

Okay, several people have been asking if I am going to publish a new list, and since the first sale is next weekend it seemed like I should probably get on that. I know I haven’t posted in a couple months, but I’m hoping to get that back together here after I get [...]

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Shin Guards and Binomial Nomenclature

July 1, 2009 – 10:37 pm

Church softball season has started up and I’m on the team again this year. Two years ago was my first season since high school (and we won’t discuss how long ago that was), and I had soooo much fun. Last year Henry was just a teeny tiny so I sat the season out. Last Thursday [...]

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Gardening, Part Deux

May 12, 2009 – 8:55 pm

Planting complete! And now, pictures. Must have something to prove (to myself) that I actually did plant a garden. You know, just in case it all dies. I like to think positive.
The side garden box
Gardening is so much more fun when your big sister helps you!
Blue-eyed Trinity Flower (also a few other things like [...]

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Square Foot Gardening

May 6, 2009 – 5:19 pm

My green thumb, or the Black Thumb of Death as I like to call it, began its hibernation faze when I was about fifteen and has yet to really recover. This was the year after I planted a huge garden in my longsuffering parents’ backyard and then promptly discovered how much I loathe weeding. But [...]

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