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An Awesome time with Authors Incognito
Last Thursday morning I packed a bag with the necessities—pajama bottoms, sweatshirt, warm fuzzy socks, slippers, hair brush, & toothpaste—grabbed my laptop, and headed for a cabin in the mountains near Park City. The night before I left I had a conversation with my seventeen year-old daughter. It went something like this. Daughter: Explain to…
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UEA = Utah Escape Activities
I love Autumn, and living in Utah it is made even better by the annual fall break or UEA (Utah Education Association) days each October. In the past our family has–with half the state–headed south to Disneyland, Seaworld and the like, but this year we’re staying closer to home. We started our week early at…
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Off and Running
Last year my both my blogging habits and my blog reading habits changed quite a bit. Instead of spending what little time I had at the computer focused on writing, I found myself lurking on homeschool sites as I tried to hurriedly educate myself on the huge venture I’d undertaken. Many of those sites became…
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The Learning Curve
It was about this time a year ago that I was making the agonizing decision of whether or not to pull my daughter out of her charter school (a great school that I really love) to homeschool her. Ultimately, after quite a lot of prayer and pondering, I (we, though my husband left this decision…
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Just what I needed
Since the birth of my darling little boy sixteen months ago, I have posted on this blog exactly 15 times. I have been caught up on the laundry twice. I’ve made breakfast for my family perhaps 20 times during all those months (pathetic considering that we used to eat breakfast together almost every day). I’ve…
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Ironman and Ironwoman
Saturday marked the culmination of a year of training and preparation at our house. My husband competed in (and completed!) the St. George Ironman, swimming 2.4 miles, then biking 112 miles, then running 26.2 miles—all in about fourteen and a half hours. Way to go Dixon!!!! It was an exciting, thrilling day, and it was…
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The Slothful Blogger
For the past few months I have been a slothful blogger, neglecting to post even a sentence or two as the rest of my life has been so crazy and complicated that I literally haven’t found a minute to spare—until tonight that is. The house is quiet right now. Four are asleep, one is at…
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Halleluah!
Last night our baby slept from 8 pm to 3 am—SEVEN HOURS! Finally. Unfortunately I didn’t sleep much, as I was worrying about Andrew’s older brother, working his first night shift at the Sam’s Club in South Jordan. Thankfully, he arrived home safely this morning and said it was cake to stay up all night…
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If You’re Bored Tomorrow
If you need a break from the kids, the heat, the rain—or all three—consider heading out to Seagull Book this weekend or next. Tomorrow I’ll be at the Spanish Fork Seagull from noon until two. Next Saturday, June 27th, I’ll be at the Provo East Bay Seagull from 12-2 as well. So if you’re in…
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A contest winner, thank you’s, a book review, and the prologue—oh my.
As usual, I am behind on life. This time I’ll blame it on my son’s first ear infection 🙁 and bronchitis. He needs to be held a lot right now, which means everything else must wait—and rightly so. As all mothers know, the stage where our children want to be held goes all too fast.…