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Tomorrow. Tomorrow is coming. Can you feel the excitement/ the dread/the pure and ridiculous fear???  Oh, I’m feeling it. Just what is tomorrow, you ask? Well, you should ask. Tomorrow is OUR very first day of Classical Conversations!!!! What the heck is that, you ask? It is technically a tutoring service, but the boys and I just call it “school.” This is where lots and lots of home schooling families come together, divide our kids up in classes…..you know……like school…..only […]

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Alan took both boys out to shoot BB guns over Christmas. Alan said that while Joshua wasn’t holding it right at all, he hit his target dead on.   A dad taking his boys out to shoot.  That’s a tradition as old as time.  I guess originally it would’ve been the dad taking the boys out to use sticks and bows and arrows and the like.  Either way, the bonding and learning is the same.     They were both […]

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    He got all ready to bat, but when he realized I had the camera out, he put the bat down and came over to pose.  Such a cute little poser.  : )   Dan has been keeping me thoroughly entertained as the big bro of the youngest set.  I do think of my children as two sets of two.  There is such a gap between Caleb and Daniel.  I tell you, if you can handle two little ones, […]

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  The boys have begun a new school year, and my house is strangely quiet.  It’s weird that so far today there has been no Joshua jumping on the trampoline, no Caleb running frantically down the hallway from Joshua, screaming, no Caleb begging me to play on my computer, nor even the sounds of little boys snacking.  I actually sort of miss it.  Sort of.  Instead, Dan is asleep, and JD is beside me, having cut his nap short, refusing […]

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  Tomorrow is the first day of school for Joshua and Caleb (Dan starts next week), and I am a bundle of stress and nerves.  What is the deal?  Why should I be bugging out?  I’m not going to school.  I don’t even have to walk with all four of them in the morning because DaddyO and Nonna are here to keep the little ones.   I’m taking Benadryl to make sure I do not suffer insomnia tonight.  That stuff […]

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  Do any of you get as excited about Open House as I do?  Our school held Open House yesterday, where all the parents show up, pretty much at the same time, and push right over each other, with children in tow, to see THE LISTS.  They are hung up on the wall by grade.  You hold your breath in anticipation to find out the big question:  Who’s class will my children be in this year??  It’s all very dramatic. […]

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  The boys got to meet their very first first cousin this week.  And I got to meet my very first nephew!!  Now I really feel like an aunt.  : )   Cousins are such an important part of growing up.  I mean family gatherings are a given every year.  For kids those can mean great, fun learning experiences…..or they can be a real snooze- fest when there are no other kids around.  In the absence of cousins, kids typically end […]

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   Did you know that TODAY is National Donut Day???  I never even knew there was such a thing, but I decided this was definitely a holiday worthy of recognition by our little clan here.  Alan must have thought so too, but don’t worry, boys, I’m going to replace those stale grocery store glazed ones Daddy bought with Krispy Kreme, chocolate covered…just as soon as school gets out!  ; )  (Everybody loves the pregnant version of April.  Alan will be […]

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A cheerful heart is good medicine.  Proverbs 17:22 That’s actually me in 2005, pregnant with Joshua.  : )    I’m in an awfully good mood today.  Can you guess why?   My cleaning lady started today.  Her name is Betty, and she knows how to use my fancy pants Kirby vacuum cleaner better than anything I’ve ever seen!  My house smells like lemons, there is nothing in the floor, there are no tiny finger prints–and NO tongue lickings– on the […]

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