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Anders' milestones: 7 months
Crawling everywhere- on hands and knees. He’s getting fast. I love how he’ll follow the sound down the hall to find Scotland in his room. Sometimes he’ll even go down the hall and play in Scotland’s room by himself- because he knows there are toys in there. Apparently the “baby toys” that I keep in…
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Positive Discipline- worth the read
I’ve been reading “Positive Discipline” by Jane Nelsen. It’s a spectacular parenting book, with LOTS of great ideas. I’ve been trying to implement her suggestions, and I’ve seen a real change in Scotland and I’s relationship, and in my view of motherhood. Here’s a few things that have really struck me: Why do we feel…
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Joy School!
Scotland started Joy School this week. He was SO excited to begin, and asked me “how many days…” several times a day for a week. There are four kids in his class: Ava Kirkwood, Noah Hulet, and Cole Watkins. It looks like it is going to be a great group, though I’d love to add one…
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Mom, Dad and Derek enter the picture
So the day after Devin left, my parents came into town, and a few days later Derek followed suit. We took Grandma and Dantzi to the zoo. It was a overcast day with a light mist from time to time- which meant there were few people at the zoo, but the animals were very active.…
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Devin and Dantzi's visit
This has been the most family-filled August I’ve had- since, well, probably moving away for college. Seriously, all but two of my siblings visited our home last month, and the two that didn’t, I saw at my folks. It’s been wonderful! I’ve already catalogued the first three family events: reunion, Karlsven visit, and Grandma and Poppa…
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Center for Wooden Boats with Grandma and Poppa
Pam and Stan were here visiting the last couple of days. They drove all the way from Tucson to bring us Stan’s old truck!!!! Can we have a cheer! We can now fit our whole family in both of our vehicles. It’s going to be SOOOO nice to have a truck that I can drive…
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Five children under three!
After our family reunion, my sister Brigette and her kids came up to Seattle for a visit. It was a wild couple of days as combined we had five kids under three. There was much mischief had, but also lots of fun. We spent one morning at Richmond Beach, looking for creatures, playing in the…
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Pete Summer Bash
This has been the summer of family. One of the main reasons Tom and I wanted to move back West was so we could be closer to family. (Though we were sad to be moving farther from his sisters.) I don’t think I’ve had this much family interaction since I lived at home, and it’s been wonderful!…
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I want it all.
I really want to make granola, and bread, and finish painting Scotland’s wall, and landscape my back bed, and tear down a wall in my kitchen, and organize the shelves above the washer and dryer and spend more time with the young women I serve, and sing more, and get my studio going, and can a boat load of tomato sauce…
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This is what a summer looks like- at the Foutzes
I’m far over due to post. And yet I have little desire to write about what we’ve been up to. I fear it would just be a travelogue, which is generally unexciting to those who weren’t riding along. And yet I want to document the wonderful times we’ve had and the memories we’ve made with family.…