A Graduation - Part 2

Saturday dawned bright and sunny, the perfect weather for a party. Melissa, Laura, and Abigail had been busy all week baking treats and freezing them for the weekend, and Friday had seen them preparing lots of finger foods to be baked on the day of the party... This particular Saturday found me free as a bird, with Quinn off for most of the day filming with friends. Wanting to be helpful, I asked...

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A Graduation - Part 1

This last Thursday, Abigail closed a chapter of her life and opened the pages of a new chapter. To her, high school must have seemed a very long chapter, but I'm sure to our parents it was more like a moment. We are all so proud of her, she has put in countless hours -- especially in math -- and we all know how excited she is to be finished. She was also excited that Laura gave her a shark balloon...

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A Prayer In Spring

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts at night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees. And make us happy in the darting bird That suddenly above the trees...

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A Bridal Shower

When you're stuck in a 40-foot bus for six or seven hours on end (no doubt driving through the fields of some Midwestern state), you find interesting ways to occupy your time. Yes, some of those times were taken up with music practice, other times spent keeping my husband awake while he drove...and still other times I was on Pinterest madly planning my cousin Callie's Bridal Shower! Of course,...

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Snowy Peaks

A string of sunny days in Alaska can cause havoc in everyone's lives. It's quite dangerous! You see, whenever there are several warm sunny days in a row, chores get left undone and everyone spends all day outside. Sunburn is also a major problem, as Madison (of her blog Daily Dose of Madison) shared in this post. I'm not brave enough to post a picture of myself bright red after...

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