Yearly Archives: 2011

Best. Day. Ever.

When you’re a little boy there isn’t anything much better than playing your heart out at your soccer game, being awarded your first “Piston Cup” and then watching Santa fly in on a helicopter at your Dad’s squadron. Oh and did I mention there are toys in that Helo? Best day ever is too big...

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Learning Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving morning we spread the tablecloth for some memories. Little boys excited for banana bread and these scones. Two years we had known the hard giving of thanks in trial, then the awe of blessings poured out, now we gathered to learn thanks giving in a new way. Our family mended and blessed we looked to other’s pain and...

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Baking in a Whirlwind

These photos dont do justice to the epic feat it was to bake these scones for Thanksgiving with my officially toddling one year old on the loose. They don’t show how my house was COVERED in cracker crumbs by the end. I neglected to get any of him AFTER he got out of the high...

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I Really Hate Halloween

I really hate Halloween. Yes I have said it. I hate the taunting of and reveling in all that is dark. I hate walking around the neighborhood and seeing front porch zombies and ghouls. I recoil at the sight of pseudo graveyards in neighbors’ lawns.  It makes me wonder why this need to laugh in...

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Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks. I looked up the definition of give. Wow, there are a lot of ways to give something away – to sell, to bestow, to administer, to convey by a physical action, to yield or produce, to be a source of, to bring forth or bear, to make gifts of, to yield under pressure, to manifest...

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