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She gets all her fashion sense from me. By Kristen H.

Sometimes I just can’t take clutter and I’ve got to do something about it, whether I really have time or not. That’s how my day has gone. I wanted to take a picture of some interesting looking animal tracks in the snow before they were gone. And why? Well, because I’m a homeschool mom and…

The Great Backyard Bird Count starts THIS Friday and I am really looking forward to it. Last year was our first year participating and it really sparked our interest in birds. We have become more avid bird watchers. We’ve also been better at keeping the feeders stocked (My husband gets most of the credit for…

I just discovered that I never actually posted this. Here I was thinking I had posted it 3 days ago. We still have this snow on the ground and we’re expecting sleet, freezing rain and maybe more snow tonight and tomorrow. I don’t know what is up with the weather, but this sure isn’t the…

Well, it’s been a busy couple of days. Yesterday my husband had the day off, so we did one of my favorite things. Hit the road! As organized as I like to be with most things, there is something about just setting off not sure of your plans that I enjoy so much. Surprising, I…

I was reading my friend Crazy Mom’s blog and I noticed a pretty neat meme she did last week. It’s Five Question Friday. So, since this is Friday I went over and found 5 new questions. 1. Worst trouble you ever got into as a teenager? Honestly, I was a pretty good kid. There were…

Do you know how sometimes you know something but since no one has really told you, you can kind of pretend you don’t know or hope that maybe it’s not as bad as you think it is? Well, now I can’t pretend. I really know. It’s really worse than I thought. My 7 year old…

I’ve spent some time during the last two weeks thinking back over 2009. It was a wonderful year in many ways. I’ve made a lot of new on-line friends this year through blogging and my involvement with the TOS Homeschool Crew. My children are learning at home. We haven’t studied all that I had hoped…

Here are some of my favorite Christmas pictures. They are not necessarily "good" pictures in the photographic sense, but represent something special to me. The kids and I did a lot of baking and we’ve eaten a lot of chocolate! Our church family went on a hayride through the Festival of Lights. Then we had…

The Happy Housewife challenged people to post their real family pictures. We had a crazy time trying to get a family shot in front of the tree this year. I love the totem pole effect in this one. I want Mommy to hold me! Oops, Dad forgot to set the timer! What is going on…