reflection

Make New Friends, But Keep the Old

When I was in Girl Scouts in elementary school, we sang this song at the end of each meeting: Make new friends, but keep the old One is silver, and the other is gold. I have been thinking a lot about friendships lately, especially those I have with people who have known me the longest.  [...]

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 [...]

May 2011: 12 of 12

A glimpse into our lives by seeing 12 pictures from the 12th of each month.  Here is a glimpse at May 12th. 1. It was a Thursday, so we worked on school work. Molly was doing this page out of Explode the Code 1 and it was cracking us both up.  Amongst the things she [...]

April 2011: 12 of 12

I almost forgot about the 12 of 12 for April!  It was after 4 pm on the 12th before I remembered to start taking pictures – yikes! 1. 66 degrees outside and sunny at 4:05 pm (when I finally remembered to take pictures) 2. Lent is getting close to being done!  This was the second [...]

How Our Lenten Plans Are Coming Along

I have been asked several times how our Lenten plans have been going.  You can read about them more thoroughly in that post, but the general gist of it was that we were going to give up TV/computer/video games for one day each week (as a family).  In addition to this, we also decided to [...]

7 Quick Takes: April 1, 2011 (Vol. 76)

~ 1 ~ We went to Once Upon a Child this week to get a “new” pair of jeans for Noah.  He tried on a few, and used some very interesting adjectives to describe some pairs.  Amongst those were that one pair was “wide” and another pair was “fluffy.”  I realized that wide just meant [...]

Being a Yes Mom

Are you a No Mom? Do you find yourself saying no to your kids requests and ideas far more than you say yes?  Are you often telling the kids why a particular idea won’t work, without giving them the chance to try it out for themselves? Know what?  I’m that Mom sometimes, and I don’t [...]

Embracing Individuality

I must be up front and say that Molly drives me crazy sometimes. She’s six years old and she does six year old kinds of things.  She screams like someone is doing her serious bodily injury when the string comes off her balloon.  When everyone else is in bed, she declares that she has neither [...]

10 Things You May Not Know About Me

Since I feel like I’m a pretty open book, I’m not entirely certain that I can come up with ten things of any importance that you don’t already know about me.  However, I’m willing to give it a try. 1. My name isn’t Angie.  It’s Angela. Now, you might say, “Yeah — I could have [...]

February 2011: 12 of 12

I was excited that this month, the 12th was a Saturday and also fell on a day when we were going to a birthday party and there was a Father-Daughter dance!  Bonus! 1. If there is a schedule up on the dry erase board to remind us when someone is taking meds, that’s never a [...]

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