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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One weekend in May, I took a walk-a-bout in my yard.  I think I do it every day to watch the progress of all the work I have put into this yard, to see the flowers bloom.  I was surprised to find the oh-so-petite pink geraniums.  Those are brand new this year, and I did not plant those, so my guess is that...

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Theo! Happy Birthday!  8!!  I cant believe it.  You and your brother are growing so fast, and becoming the most amazing boys.  I love you so so much.  I have more pictures of Theo's birthday celebration because it was later in the month, and with that came some relaxing of isolation and quarantine rules.  I had the family over and our close friends. ...

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This year it was a nice quiet Mother's Day around here.  We had a lazy morning, and then had a nice lunch with my mother and step-father.  We practiced social distancing, but its the good-bye hugs and kisses that are missing.  On Saturday, the boys were willingly participants in digging up the yard to make the garden plot.  They especially loved the part...

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This is my first ever yarn along, or link to another blogger.  Not sure why I am compelled to do this now, when I've been knitting and reading for years. Maybe its the quarantine. Maybe its I am finally challenging myself to do things that I've always said I would do, and of course somehow never do them. I am knitting the Lovely...

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Happy 10th Birthday Max! A whole decade! Ten years!  I cant believe it, its gone by so fast and yet so slow at the same time.  I know this kid will be super successful in life, but man getting him there has been and is, hard.  I am so thankful for him.  I am SUPER blessed he's my son.  He is super smart,...

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Earth Day 2020. I never really celebrate Earth Day unless its something required by the boys school, an activity or something.  I think the last time we did something Earth Day related Theo was in pre-Kindergarten.  We made a dinosaur using recycled materials.  Or I made the dinosaur at my work desk and brought to his class.  Ha. So this year, being home...

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