Ooops! (I didn’t do it!) :)

Yep, our family van has a big owie–but not as big as I had imagined it would be!  Dan took Brock and Luke to a Cub Scout Day Camp in a nearby town today and had two other scouts and one other parent riding along.  Sure enough, a deer jumped out right in front of [...]

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Links to Kara’s Adoption Story

5/30/08 Update:  This family now has their new referral, and it looks like things are beginning to smooth out for them.  Pictures of their daughter can be seen on their family website at http://chinacaboose.blogspot.com/ .  Please take time today to join me in praising Jesus Christ for His mighty work!  This will be my last update [...]

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Catching Up On Pictures of the Kids

I have been taking a lot of pictures, but haven’t been putting them in Smileboxes lately.  So, I decided to combine some of my favorites from the last couple of weeks into an unthemed, unrelated slideshow!  Enjoy the recent pictures of the Prairie Family Chronicles clan!

Make a Smilebox postcard

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Mandie and the Secret Tunnel Movie Trailer

More information about this film can be seen at http://www.mandiemovies.com/ .

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Cosette’s New Favorite Hair Style

 
 
 
     During the summer we have “Movie Day.”  This started several years ago when our local movie theater had free afternoon matinees for kids.  Back then, they had several good movies on their schedule, and I enjoyed taking my kids to the movies, and they enjoyed the popcorn!
    Our local theater still does this, but [...]

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Kara’s New Shoes

Dan and I have noticed over the last several months that Kara has gotten to where she falls down more and more often.  In fact, right now she has bandaids on both of her knees from falling down outside, and that is not unusual!  We have seen a trend that she does pretty well until [...]

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So, What did we Finish this School Year?

Well, here it is:  this year’s completed Abeka Academy curriculum in semi-organized piles.  By the time it’s all put in one place, it kind of seems like a mountain of stuff to try to put away!  I hope to get it all boxed up today–then I’ll have to try to figure out where to put [...]

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Lord, Please Comfort the Chapman Family

Word has gotten around pretty quickly that Steven Curtis Chapman’s youngest daughter adopted from China, Maria Sue, was killed yesterday in a tragic accident at her home.  She was 5 years old.  That family must be experiencing tremendous grief today, and we in the adoption community are all grieving with them.
I was touched by this [...]

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China Special Needs Adoption Updates

5/28/08 Update:  A family just contacted me about another agency offering the Xing Fu program. The agency is Hand in Hand out of Arizona.  They are assigned to the Nanjing orphanage in Jiangsu Province.  The family providing the information has just signed on with Hand in Hand and are very pleased with the agency and process so [...]

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Summer Goal #1 Finished! / Remembering about China with Kara

Well, believe it or not, I have completed my first major goal for the summer: getting all of the Abeka DVD’s and grade reports ready to mail back to Pensacola.  This is the first step to getting school put away, so I am glad to have that done–it really takes more time than it looks [...]

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