I am trying a new thing this year.  I am good for starting something, whatever it is, and not finishing, not seeing it through.  This year being 50, its time to make that small change.  One day at a time.  I am going to start with a word for 2022.  I will hold this word accountable for keeping me accountable.  Knowing. Knowing me. Knowing my core values. Knowing...

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michigancoloradoillinoisOne weekend, three different states, three siblings all enjoying nature.  Its apparent nature is well loved in this family.  Boys love the river tubes.  So glad I got them.  They will be put to really good use here this summer and future summers.  Getting the tubes to the lake was quite comical.  I inflated them in the garage and tried to put them in the...

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Wednesday night I took us to a river front park for a picnic.  I brought the boys bathing suits, towels and our beach blanket.  I figured what else do we have to lose on this hot and steamy and humid and sticky night?  It was exactly what we needed.  They jumped right in the water, rocky bottom and all.  They swam for a good...

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Happy Independence Day!  We had a GREAT day!  We headed over to Andrew's for a family BBQ.  It was such a good time.  The boys were in/out of the house, playing on electronics, roaming the neighborhood, having fun wasting all the dish soap on the slip-n-slide that they didnt need showers!  Weather was perfect, not too hot, enough shade from their big backyard tree.  We...

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Its July already.  So fast, this year is going.  We've been still staying at home, for the most part.  We've been still social distancing, for the most part.  We are still healthy, yes!! As the cases increase by day in other regions of the US, I say a prayer of gratitude that we are safe.  And a prayer of health for all those...

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I am so glad I linked to Ginny's Yarn Along, because it held me accountable for both finishing a book and a knitting project.  It forced me to google how-to videos for steps that I needed to learn about.  You know, doing hard things.  This month, I learned my cousin is having a baby girl in November.  I found some super soft gray yarn...

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This past weekend, the first full weekend in June, the boys and I went camping with Dawn and Mason.  This was a 'hey, what are you doing this weekend...nothing...want to go camping...where...etc...' and next you know the cars are packed and we headed ninety minutes west to Mendota Campground.  We had a site where it was wide open, no one around us (or closely...

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