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Colored Bamboo wind chimes Don’t know about you, I could use some break. This post of yesterday – such comments are always taking me a bit off-balance. Not that I’m very balanced lately. Balance is not interesting anyway. So I did what I always do lately, created some new tech issues with the new parents site. Try it, that’s when you lean back in your chair and let other people fix what you ruined. That is great, take it from me! I’ve started doing it on purpose, see? Wind chimes. I was leaning back thinking… Continue reading
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Originally posted on Parenting And Stuff:
OK, I know, not all of you waited for this moment exactly, but I worked so hard on it, I needed to get your attention, didn’t I? 😉 For those of you who followed my journey, and for those who have no idea what I’m talking about: I promised (here) I complained (a lot, here ) And finally I made it! Here: http://www.parents-space.com Parents – Space is the meeting place for writers, parents and professionals, discussing parenting challenges ; mission is to become a source of support for other parents, wherever they may be in… Continue reading
On the cusp of adulthood
a href=”https://blessedx5ks.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/119.jpg”> At the end of this month I will be the mother of an adult child (legally an adult that is). My oldest, Heather, will turn 18 and I will have a new reality. 18 years that have flown by, with moments made up of all different flavors and scents, joys and sorrows. But most of all joys. The small moments of pleasure at watching my children experience and appreciate life are my mana. I see God in all my small moments and I feel entirely and completely blessed. Heather has been nothing but a pleasure to raise and … Continue reading On the cusp of adulthood
Teenagers’ paths
Having teenagers means having tall kids with identity issues. My 15 and 17 year olds are looking at life and saying that the world sucks, no friends, boys are horrible people and they prefer the company of girls. What does this mean? to me? to them? to us? I guess for now it means that I don’t need to worry about “boys being boys”. But, if I am honest with myself, I worry. I worry about them not learning “how to date”. How to handle themselves around guys. About them not being “socially acceptable”. And about how I would truly … Continue reading Teenagers’ paths
Volunteer work with your kids- most rewarding adventure ever
href=”https://blessedx5ks.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/064.jpg”> Girl Scout Ginger Cascades[/caption] Volunteering with my kids, no matter what I do, is so rewarding. I have been Sunday School teacher for my children because no one else would step up (and I am positive that I learned more than the children), I have directed a children’s choir-for the same reason- and LOVED it. I expanded the role of the KIDS (Kids In Devotional Singing) choir by having them do a full musical in the spring so that the kids would learn about spreading God’s love through story and music. We all loved it! I have been a … Continue reading Volunteer work with your kids- most rewarding adventure ever
Schedules and 5 kids… they don’t mix very well…..
Our youngest, Mikayla, was 7 years old a couple days ago. Incredible! It is so true that time flies when you are having fun. But since her birthday is just a few days after New Years we always have her party the following weekend, So this year we are celebrating on the 12th. So, prep all week and bake the cake and get ready for the party and go into my little OCD mde (which I do not suffer from any time except before parties) on Saturday and we end up having a great party and whether our house is … Continue reading Schedules and 5 kids… they don’t mix very well…..
Christmas Traditions
Twenty years ago I married my husband (wow that’s a long time ago). We combined our Christmas “traditions” and came up with a few of our own. I grew up in a house full of brothers and sisters and parents who were a generation ahead of my husbands mom. (to give an example, my oldest brother is only a few years younger than my husbands mom, and my husbands grandma is the same age as my parents). When I was growing up we went to the Candlelight service every Christmas eve, came home and hung our stockings, read “Twas the … Continue reading Christmas Traditions
Growing up…..
Growing up. I thought I was done with such a thing…. but it has been proven to me that I have some more growing up to do. Heather is in Kansas, while the rest of us are back home in North Carolina. It is pretty hard not having her here. For many reasons. We have been seperated since the Friday after Thanksgiving…. and we will see her at Christmas in York, Pennsylvania. Now I have known that the day will come, sonner than later, that Heather will leave the nest… and learn to live without her Momma. BUT I didn’t … Continue reading Growing up…..
Weekends with our family
So the other weekend we went to the mountains for 2 days. Now that is something that we couldn’t do in Kansas. So needless to say the views were awe inspiring. We saw soooooo many trees and hills and mountains that it took our breath away. At every turn the children were proclaiming excitement, until eventually even this beauty became common place and they became complacent. But not for long for we stopped at an over look and beheld God’s magnificance. We had a weekend packed with activities. Besides driving 4 hours there and back. We went to the mountains, … Continue reading Weekends with our family
Our son….
Matthew, our son. He is stuck in the middle of 4 girls, 2 older sisters and 2 younger ones. He handles his predicament “like a man”. Well I guess he doesn’t have any other choice, it is his life. When people comment on his position in life, he just shrugs or laughs it off. He turns 11 at the end of next month, 70 years younger than his MeeMee to the day- less one. And he is one of the shortest if not the shortest guy in his class. Matthew is in a terrible position, we moved him across the country … Continue reading Our son….
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