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Monday, January 21st, 2008The Deputy Headmistress has posted a few excerpts and few comments of her own on the education system here in America. I’ve been wanting to write on a couple of things that I recently heard here in our area of Springfield, Missouri. Three weeks or so ago, the evening news (which I rarely [...]
Sam’s Quilt-to-be
Monday, January 21st, 2008I picked up the coordinating fabric this morning so that I can start working on Sam’s quilt. I’m really excited about doing it.
Curious about the gingerbread houses?
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Go HERE
Surprised
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Juanita asked how my kids had been sneaky, and so I thought I’d tell the whole thing in a separate post. When I wrote that I only meant it in very limited sense. Sam had signed on as me to announce that today was my birthday (note the use of “mama” in his part [...]
Gingerbread Houses
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007Yesterday was Abbie’s 16th birthday. She wanted to make gingerbread houses. I found several recipes for the gingerbread and used the one I found at about.com. I neglected to notice the LONG baking time, so it took me all day to bake enough for everyone. Sam declined to participate. The kids finished putting them [...]
Christmas Baking
Saturday, December 15th, 2007I always found that baking Christmas goodies with little kids to be…well a little trying. Now that the kids are older it’s more fun and relaxing.
“We have seen his star.”
Family History and Memorial Day
Thursday, December 6th, 2007This really would be a better post for Memorial Day, but since that’s a long while away, I’m going to go ahead and post it. The following excerpt comes from a book called Years Ago by Rudolf Priepke. Mr. Priepke was an unofficial town historian of Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa, an area in which [...]
Photos-Junior Tea and Horse Happenings
Saturday, November 24th, 2007I’ve uploaded some photos that you can see HERE. Some are back from last month when we went to Gutenberg’s Junior Tea and the others are from yesterday.
Sisters
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007The girls were sharing a moment together (and headphones) while watching a cat do tricks.
Abbie News
Monday, November 12th, 2007Abbie played two pieces at the state-level competition for the Missouri Music Teachers’ Association and made a top score! We’re very proud of her
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