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Finding Time for Creative Endeavors

*Do you have a post about scheduling?  Make sure to share a link to it in the link up below!* I’m sure that your schedule is a lot like my schedule — there never seems to be quite enough time. When I’m pressed for time, as I often am, one of the first things to [...]

7 Quick Takes: August 26, 2011 (Vol. 94)

~ 1 ~ Apparently my mind may be like mush (at least at this moment).  I got on my blog to start writing my seven quick takes, and I suddenly couldn’t think of what types of things I blog about.  And then I followed that up by starting to write the date as December something. [...]

7 Quick Takes: August 12, 2011 (Vol. 92)

~ 1 ~ In my post about things I don’t do (which you should check out and read the comments too, if you also have a laundry list of things you don’t do), I overlooked something that I don’t do that I tried to tackle this week — I don’t teach my kids to ride [...]

7 Quick Takes: July 8, 2011 (Vol. 87)

~ 1 ~ We have spent the entire week enjoying time with my sister and five of her six kids who are in visiting from the East Coast.  We’ve been eating a lot, laughing a lot, sweating a lot (when we went out on an outdoor excursion in the heat of the afternoon one day), [...]

7 Quick Takes: July 1, 2011 (Vol. 86)

~ 1 ~ When we went out of town recently to visit my Grandpa and the rest of my family, I noticed a small Bible on the dresser in the master bedroom.  It had a zipper around it to keep it shut, so I had to unzip it to check it out.  It was then [...]

A Difficult Glimpse Into the Future

We spent this past weekend at my Grandparents’ house (which I will probably always call my grandparents’ house, even though my Grandma passed away just over a year ago).  We used the weekend as a time to visit with family, work on staging their house as my Grandpa was finally changing to a realtor who [...]

June 2011: 12 of 12

The 12th of the month has come and gone, and that means that it’s time for 12 of 12 again. For 12 of 12, I take at least 12 pictures on the 12th of the month, in order to give a small snapshot of our lives.  Then, I pick the 12 that I want to [...]

7 Quick Takes: June 10, 2011 (Vol. 83)

~ 1 ~ I sent Eric a text this week that read: On a scale of 1 – 10, with 1 being as apathetic as a Seattle hipster and 10 being that you want to throw yourself off the Golden Gate Bridge, how sad would you be if we went to Disney World without you? [...]

The Anniversary Post Where I Focus on the Bad Times

Dear Eric, I have scheduled this to be posted at 2:30 pm purposefully. Do you remember where you were at 2:30 pm exactly 15 years ago? You were that 20 year old guy standing in front of a church that was filled far more than you had wanted it to be.  I was the 19 [...]

Summer Staycation: Madison, Wisconsin

I’m so excited to be part of the big Summer Staycation posting today that bloggers all over the blogosphere are taking part in hosted by The Happy Housewife and Springs Bargains!  The idea behind this is that with rising gas prices, as well as so many other things that we budget for (like food) going [...]

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