New Paper = Inspiration!
One of my favorite Christmas gifts was a huge pack of printed scrapbooking paper from my mother-in-law.It provided just the inspiration I needed for my thank you notes, a few pages in Jesse’s album, and for her birthday present a few days later… The gift bag doubled as the card. I printed some phrases in…
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Wordless Weekend
Wordless Weekend
Let it snow!!!
We are getting our first snow storm today! I’m glad I did all those errands yesterday – we hardly knew this storm was coming – at least, we didn’t know it would be this bad! I drove up to Mom’s this morning to pick up Anneke to spend the day with me, and it was…
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The Boy’s New Hair Cut
So handsome!!!
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Battle
i’m stuck in this cagei want to get outbut i’m afraid to knock down the doori know there are green meadowsand soothing streams on the other sidebut i’m still scared to deathscared because no one knows that i’m in hereto break down the doorwould reveal to all that iam a prisonerthat needs to be freeso…
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This week – same as last!
I’ve given up trying to get caught up on the blog – I appreciate Anja and Olivia keeping fresh stuff up while I’m busy! These are pictures from last week, but they illustrate this week as well! Today Jesse and I and his great grandma are going blueberry picking!Jesse loves blueberries. He was rather overwhelmed…
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More wedding photos
I don’t know why the link didn’t work for you at first, Ruth – I tried it and it went right through. You have to be signed in to Snapfish in order to view the album. Try again, here. Hope it works this time!
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Saturday was the girls’ dance recital. All three of my sisters, as well as Jeremy’s niece and nephew were in several of the dances, so we were really looking forward to the show!My sisters in the opening dance – Anneke on top! Niece Havalah – she had such good form – she’s only 7! Havalah,…
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“The readiness is all”
I have been thinking lately about flexibility, spontaneity, and structure, and the balance we must have of each in our lives. I like structure. My husband is spontaneous. I loved this when we were dating, because it meant that we would have surprise, at-the-drop-of-a-hat dates, and lots of memories made in moments that would have…
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One of yesterday’s pages. (Yes, I did more than one – I worked on three, and now I am taking a break today! scrapbooked-out!) Jeremy printed out the photo frame and the logo for me from the internet – so perfect. I had my doubts about this page – thought it was too simple, but…
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Faithful readers, please forgive a shameless moment of congratulations to myself. I have today reached the personal goal of a quarter of a century, and I think I would be remiss not to mention it on my blog. I have, to date, received:3 phone calls from grandparents1 phone call from my mother1 phone call from…
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You make me feel like dancing…
One of our favorite parts of the reception was the group dancing. We wanted our guests to have fun, we wanted our wedding to feel like the celebration it was! Having fun and easy group dances that everyone could join in to helped us acheive that. First we did a traditional Lebanese line dance to…
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