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We recently received news that our family will once again grow through the miracle of adoption. Being unsure if this is common knowledge news, I will refrain from naming names...but you know who you are, and our prayers are with you as you wait.And for all the others waiting...my prayers are with you and your children in this Christmas Season

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I'm not a soccer mom. I'm just not. I think I have known that I won't be a soccer mom for a long time. Not that there is anything wrong with soccer, (or basketball or football or those other sports akin to them) and there is nothing to say that at some time or other my kids will play them if they so desire. In which case I will join the other moms on the sideline and cheer my heart out. I just

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After the Science Center, we headed down to Mo's on the Newport waterfront.Jake got a little tired of waiting and decided to make his own seafoodMax liked the idea of crumbling crackers into his chowder... But I think we should have waited until they were done to tell them it had molusks in it. Jake liked it anyways. This was his "I like it" face. Convinsing? After lunch, we headed out where the

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For the past month or so, our science "curriculum" (still working on finding a good actual curriculum for science) has focused around the classification tree including the phylums Mullusca (from molis meaning soft, including snails, slugs, octopus, squid....) ecinodermata (ecino = spiny and derm = skin, including sea stars, sea cucumbers and sea urchins), and cnidarians (from knide meaning nettle

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Public speaking. At some point in our lives, we all have to do it. But how many actually enjoy it? It is important to me that the kids have some experience in these early years of standing in front of people with a specific thing to tell while remaining somewhat composed. This was the first of the character presentations and it was a blast.Of course, they were much more comfortable and put

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I never was a huge fan of Halloween, and yet I didn't really like the idea of avoiding simple, fun things like collecting loads of candy from local businesses and houses. So...after a couple of years of randomly dressing up, I decided upon a new family tradition. The rule is: you can dress up, but it must be a real historical character. Yet as I am typing, I am remembering more of how the

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This song came up on my Pandora Michael Card station the other day. It is my new lullaby/prayer at nightime for my kids. (Although I also sing it for myself). Josh lovingly used his birthday Amazon certificate (thank you Kellie) to get the cd for me which, I must say, is wonderful.Fernando Ortega: Jesus, King of Angels The timing somehow got off with the pictures, but I only put them on because

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One never knows in Oregon what "next weekend"'s weather will be...SO with clouds looming overhead, we dressed the kids in warm clothes and headed to the pumpkin patch. Sure enough, as we backed the van out, we could see the tiny drops hitting the window. "Oh well." we said, and on we went. The day was good, mixed with rain and rain breaks, and of course the kids had a blast!

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Oh too true. I laugh every time I see this and (just like patience is growing with my son's pencil dropping habit) patience ups a little with my scientific machines.Josh and Ollie talking face to face with grandparents living THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY! This was an irritating conversation because there was a delay and we kept freezing up ;)

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I SO needed this today. Thanks, Kim, for posting the link on Janine's blog!And so glad to hear I am not the only one to deal with the frustration of pencil dropping!! Which today I am much more tolerant of. :)

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That you may not have seen. Enjoy Josh and Max won the gender game. They got to pick the ice cream flavors.Daddy's homeEach of the four have done this. Unwrapping toilette paper is loads of entertainment. Max after waking up from a nap: Out to the couch and back to sleep. Niece Jordyn wanted to learn to knit for her birthday. We had a great time. Now off to a new week!

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In my second week of my first real year of homeschooling (boy don't I sound green to all of this!) I have certainly figured out many things. 1. Language arts are a breeze. No reason to waste the fresh brain moments of the morning on those. 2.Math is not so much of a breeze. If there were one subject I wish I could leave out, it would certainly be math. Unfortunately, it is the one subject which

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Since I am now in the "classroom for up 4-5 hours of every day, I guess it is natural to have a blog section about just what goes on there.Yesterday, when narrating the history story (ancient Egypt) Max tells me "The Egyptians thought RA was the sun god...But WE know that Jesus is the Son God."You got it Max! (of course, I did reinforce that there is only one God and they got a little lesson in

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Today marks "one week" since the start of school. As seen from last weeks post, there are ups and downs. ;) Overall, it has been a good week.One thing is sure, I love it so far and, so long as I keep my patience, Jake loves it too.His favorite subjects, thus far, are Reading and History. And during playtime I have little archaeologists and nomads running around. (nothing like a little play

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We pulled it off: a surprise party for our four year old! Daddy put in at a boat ramp and set off down the Willamette. Meanwhile, I ran to the take out spot to set up the party. About an hour later, here came the boys...with one happy, shocked little man.It was a hit. Only one disaster had to be averted when a balloon floated away down the river. In went Josh to rescue it.Happy Birthday, Kiddo.

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Happy birthday to the one who brings a smile. To the one who loves to chat and snuggle. You love family and are always ready to give something up for someone else (especially your older, respected brother). Max, you have kept me on my toes (literally) since you were a tiny yelling baby. I have a feeling that my toes will be as strong as your personality before you are out of the house. We love

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I know many of you who read my blog do not agree with me on this issue. I know many do not feel it is as important as I do. And that is okay. I mean no "in your face" feelings by posting this.But I ask...for just a few minutes...that we forget.forget politicsforget debatesforget "sides"forget other issues...forget abortionTry to forget those things and simply see this for what it is. Photo and

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I often peek in at my boys as they are sleeping and can just see them recharging for the next day. And now, my four little walking batteries are buzzing around me with their various interests as I attempt to sit down and write an overdue post. School starts in a couple of weeks so we are in "pre-training" mode...trying to see if the littles can "keep themselves entertained" between the hours of

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Anyone who has a love for Africa (or a concern for humanity) as well as a love for those spendy coffee drinks will get all warm and fuzzy walking into their local Starbucks. Pictures of African villages adorn their water bottle displays, traditional fabrics decorate bags and tumblers, and all around you they seem to shout "We care!" While our conscience urges us to "buy this thing and save a life

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Josh is often rather eccentric in his desires for various experiments or ideas of inventions and the like. I was not surprised, therefore, when he came home fascinated about a man who had taken medicine to darken his skin. I was also not surprised when he wanted to do the experiment as well. That was years ago, but just recently he came home with his book: "Black Like Me."John Griffin was a white

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Have you ever seen these pictures taken by this artist? In case you are wondering, method really does have this affect and I am convinced that whoever coined the phrase "as easy as taking candy from a baby" forgot the instant security alarm feature.I was happy to see, however, that this tactic does not work for my four (almost) and six year old.Now, although I did not take the suckers away for

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Last weekend was Dove's annual (or bi-annual) get-together and what a good time was had! Friday evening had a trip to the Children's museum in store which held the excitement of Jake for a whole week. Unfortunately, with loads and loads of people there, it was a little hard to visit, but we did get some catching up done...including two lovely ladies whose children "shared a crib" so to speak at

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Guest Posted by Mr Yoder"My dear father walked with me the first six miles of the way. His counsels and tears and heavenly conversation on that parting journey are fresh in my heart as if it had been yesterday; and tears are on my cheeks as freely now as then, whenever memory steals me away to the scene. For the last half-mile or so we walked on together in almost unbroken silence,- my father, as

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