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Category: Grace
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"Grace, why are you putting all of that clay in a bowl?" "I’m making pretend soup for a family that needs soup." That kid has a big heart. And an active imagination. A couple of days ago, when I was prodding her to eat her breakfast, she responded: "But Mommy, I’m still full from the…
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Today was a day of sobbing, whining and general misery. The kind of day that I thought (and still fear) might never end. Poor Grace has a very sore throat and a temperature of 103 degrees. Sweet little Tess, sensing that something was amiss, felt the need to compete for my attention. I love them…
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Okay, so maybe it wasn’t really poetry in motion. It was more like, "Look at me! I can watch myself in the mirror while I jump and spin around! I feel pretty, oh so pretty!" In any case, Grace’s first ‘dance recital’ was very cute. That’s Grace’s friend Violet right next to her in the…
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I hate the men in suits who came up with the idea of daylight savings time. What decent human being would knowingly inflict the torture of a time change on a family with children? Clearly these men did not have kids of their own, or at least they had saintly wives who got up with…
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We like living in the woods for many reasons, one of the main ones being the opportunities for wildlife viewing. We have quite a few birds and squirrels, the occasional deer, and turkeys. Last year we saw one turkey several times, lounging around the birdfeeders. This year, we are getting big groups (a gaggle? a…
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Grace had her first real trick-or-treating experience last night. OK, so maybe it wasn’t that "real" – we visited all of the merchants along Main Street in Freeport. But it was safe, and fun, and certainly preferable to parading down our own dark, long, rural road. We were invited to do this with Grace’s best…
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Every day when I put Tess down for her nap, I leave Gracie alone downstairs. She usually reads a book or finds a good hiding place (she’ll do anything to avoid her own nap). This has been working well for several weeks now, and Gracie has wowed me with her ability to be quiet and…
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I had many reasons for wanting to start a vegetable garden this year, despite my complete lack of a green thumb. One of the main reasons was to begin to teach the girls where food comes from – that it does not really come from the grocery store – it comes from the earth. That’s…
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Today, Grace attended story time at our local library while Tess and I played and selected books. One of the books we brought home, The Peace Book (by Todd Parr), has been an instant hit. It is filled with sweet statements and colorful illustrations to attempt to convey the different kinds of peace to young…
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Occasionally Gracie comes downstairs and into our room in the middle of the night, for no apparent reason. So Adam takes her upstairs and puts her right back into bed. Last night, however, there was a pretty loud thunderstorm in the middle of the night – 3am to be exact. Gracie came into our room…
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