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Recognizing the Rest of the Family’s Needs
Many of you may be nodding your heads in agreement with keeping the holidays simple, flexible, inexpensive…and you’re ready and willing to do this. But it isn’t long until someone in your family...
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Everybody’s An Expert
One of the hardest part of the holidays, and visits with extended family or friends you see infrequently, is that you’re likely to be subjected to someone’s “expert” opinion about how you should raise...
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Our Funky Thanksgiving Plans
As promised, here are our very non-traditional Thanksgiving plans: Super Dad will awake early to run a 10K whose proceeds benefit a local food pantry, cleverly named “Gobble Jog”. After that we will...
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A Wonderful Thankful Day!
Today was such an awesome day. I loved it when a day exceeds my expectations! Having put the majority of the elbow grease for our meals into yesterday, all that was required of me to finish brunch this...
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Love Thursday: When’s the Party?
As our older two kids were headed out the door from our Thanksgiving Cranium bash last Thursday, the eldest asked, “So when’s the party?” I was confused. He explained that he didn’t want to miss this...
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Holiday Traditions from Our House
Kelly, on the Foster Adoption Blog just wrote about her holiday traditions, and got me to thinking…do we have holiday traditions? Sometimes I hear about all those families who have such meaningful...
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New Year’s Eve with Our Circle of Friends
I started to write this blog a few days ago to tell you how fortunate we are to have a circle of friends who are nearly like family to us. We’ve been going to church with these people for over 10...
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The Dreaded Holiday Letter Or How Late is Too Late?
Every day of this Christmas break I have planned to: a. write a holiday letter; b. have LuLu do just a little bit of school work; and c. catch up on a work project I put off until this week. Well, the...
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Gong Xi Fa Cai
Happy Chinese New Year (albeit a bit late). This is the Year of the Rat, a special occasion in our household, since LuLu was born in the year of the Rat. Unlike what we in Western cultures think, Rats...
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Kids That Know How to Work
I’m so proud of my two oldest kids. Today my daughter went to a friend’s house and helped clean it. She said the mom told her, “You are such a good girl to help clean.” I know she’s a good cleaner...
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