Piano Duet by John and Cosette

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A Funny Video from the Past

Today I was looking through some of my old video clips and came across this video of Kara from September 2007.  She was almost four years old and had been home for about a year.  In this clip, she tells about a drawing that she made of her family.  Just wait to hear what she [...]

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A Winning Season

Last night was our last evening of city recreation baseball for this year.  Wow–what will it be like not going out to the baseball diamonds EVERY NIGHT???  What will we do with all of our extra time??? 
Anyway, I wanted to use this entry to take a look back at this year’s season.
This was [...]

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Momma’s Helper

This week I have been doing some very-late-spring cleaning.  The summer is slipping quickly by, and I know that once we start school, our time for more than surface cleaning is quite limited.  In addition to that, next week our new windows are supposed to be installed.  I thought it would be nice to at [...]

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Webelos Science Experiment

This summer I have been helping Brock complete the requirements for the Webelos Scientist activity pin.  I helped John complete this same pin a few years ago and discovered that the Egg in a Bottle experiment is fun and gets a good reaction, so I decided to video it this time around.  It takes a [...]

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“Lukeisms”

Luke has always been quite the theologian/philosopher.  He has remarkably deep thoughts for such a little guy!  He often surprises us with profound comments that he will make out of the blue about different topics.
He has had a couple of these “Lukeisms” during the past couple of days.  Last night he was walking with me [...]

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Completed Library Game Cards

This summer, John, Cosette, and Kara have been participating in our local library’s summer reading program. I have written an earlier entry describing it in more detail here. This week is the last week for the meetings as well as the deadline to complete the at-home activity cards.
Kara’s group had a different incentive than the [...]

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Sunday School

This summer I started teaching Kara’s Sunday School class, and I must say that I absolutely LOVE it!  I have spent much of my adult life teaching young kids whether in Sunday School or Bible Clubs, but it had been awhile.  About 2 1/2 years ago we changed churches, and we spent that time getting [...]

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Camp Recipes: Meatballs in Gravy, Hearty Taters, and Easy Scout Pies

As promised, I am posting the supper recipes that John made at this weekend’s camp.  (By the way, any of these recipes would work at home in normal ovens too!)

Make a Smilebox recipe

Make a Smilebox recipe

Make a Smilebox recipe

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Scout Camp Cooking

This summer John has been working on completing requirements to advance in Boy Scouts.  In order to achieve higher ranks, he needed to plan the meals for a campout, and then lead the cooking.  Well, this was as much of a learning experience for me as it was for John because I have never been [...]

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