A Prairie Family Fall Weekend

Weekends at our house are very hectic!  By the time we catch up on cleaning, do our weekly shopping, get homework done, work on Scout projects, do yard work, go to Sunday School and church, and spend time playing both inside and outside, the weekends just fly by!  I can’t say that they are very [...]

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Luke and Kara Try to Fix the Teeter-Totter

Luke and Kara have been big buddies lately!  They are both in school half-time, so they have time to play together while the other kids are in school.  It’s neat to see them play together–but, they are both so smart and ornery, that I often find myself wondering what they are up to!   
This [...]

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A Cute Video of Kara

Today I saw Kara playing the Wii with the other kids, and she was just really getting into it! I thought fast enough to get my camera and take a video clip of her–it is really cute!  This is the link to view the video: 

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The Prairie Family Chronicles Portaportal

I recently came across a neat way to put some of my bookmarks on the internet.  I thought this would be a neat way to share some of our favorite sites, and it will help solve a problem:  my kids are interested in beginning to use the internet, but I don’t want them just surfing [...]

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A Wonderful Video of a Patriotic Song to Start Off the Weekend

Wow, what a song!  What a message!

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Grandma’s Plastic Ears

My kids are so fortunate to have their grandparents (my parents) living in the same town as them.  In today’s society, that is such a blessing and luxury!
My mom has worn hearing aids for years, and she has always told the kids that when they put their hands on her “plastic ears,” and they whistle, [...]

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The story of one of my favorite hymns

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Camp Fire USA: Trail to Creativity

 Tonight we had another meeting of the Christian Explorer’s Camp Fire USA Club. We are working on one of the Create and Pretend Projects in the Trail to Creativity. The kids made puppets and then we did a whole lot of pretending with the puppets–things like pretending they were stuck inside a bubble and couldn’t [...]

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Four Wonderful Kids Who Are Looking For Homes

11/17/07 Update:  Kyle is now also listed as being on hold!   
10/03/07 Update:  Frannie is now listed as being on hold as well!  Praise God for His great goodness!  Now Kyle is the only one waiting for his family.  I pray that even today they would find him.
10/02/07 Update:  Today I see that Isabelle is also on hold!  [...]

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TAGGED–Sleepy time toys!

 
One of my internet friends, Chelley, tagged me with a blogging question.  Her site is at http://chelleyau.blogspot.com/ .  Her questions for me were 
1. What did you go to bed with (as a child)?
2. What was the weird thing you used to eat?
So, Chelley, here’s my answers:
1.  I really did not have a sleepy-time toy when I [...]

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