Month: February 2009
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the family bed
Building the bunk bed kept my husband’s hands busy as we waited for the eldest son’s return from a Teen Mission trip to Honduras the summer of 1979. We did not have a lot of cash; we could not afford the best wood, but he could at least make a sturdy, bed out of pine…
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Mayan exhibit expells boredom
Taking turns pouring shaped pancakes for breakfast on Saturday started the day with a bit of creativity with the visiting Texas grandchildren. One helped me measure and mix the ingredients from scratch; the others poured and flipped their own pancakes and scrambled eggs in the electric skillet. Swarming around the skillet they worked the pancake…
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Get ready, it’s coming … well sometime
Paul Revere had one evening to alert the Minute Men that the Red Coats were coming. He had one horse, one voice and one long of night shouting, “The British are coming. The British are coming.” Those who heard his shout had one night to prepare themselves against the British invasion. Okay, okay, it didn’t…
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snow baby Sophie’s birthday
Snowbaby Sophie arrived in the middle of a snowstorm and celebrated her first birthday surrounded by the massive clean-up surrounding this year’s deluge of snow and ice. Roadside hedges hung heavy with ice on the shady side and sprang up free on the sunny side as we traveled north to her first birthday party. The…