Posted in family life, fun stuff on Jul 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
I took this picture Sunday morning from our backyard. (And no that is not my thumb, it is part of our roof lol)
At lunchtime today Joshua and I will be on one of those big birds in the sky heading “home”! It will be our first visit back home since we moved six years […]
Posted in celebrating the seasons, nature, family life on Jul 12th, 2007 7 Comments »
Sunflowers are my favorite flower and Joshua and I love to plant a “field” of them each year. This field is really just a line of sunflowers along the backwall of our house but to us that is sufficient to bring smiles to our faces each and every time we walk out into our backyard.
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Posted in family life on Jul 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
Yesterday my youngest daughter received wonderful news in the mail. Lauren is 17 and will be a senior this year at a local public high school. (She was homeschooled from grades 3 through 6.) She had a difficult academic year last year as a junior taking three AP courses; English Language and Composition, American History and Psychology, along […]
Posted in musings on Jul 6th, 2007 3 Comments »
from The Ghost of Hannah Mendes by Naomi Ragen
“…If only they understood that life can be measured in finite quantities that were used up and couldn’t be replaced. Seconds, minutes, hours. You could calculate exactly how many were given to the average person. Twenty-four hours a day equaled 1,440 minutes times 365 days a year […]
Posted in celebrating the seasons, family life on Jul 5th, 2007 No Comments »
My husband and son both work outdoors in construction and said by 9 am this morning the temperature was reading 109 degrees. When I was on my blog a little while ago, my weather pixie listed a temp of 117 for us and she is now at 115. Yes we do live in the desert… […]
Posted in celebrating the seasons, family life, fun stuff on Jul 5th, 2007 2 Comments »
Last night we headed up to the garage roof top of a casino five minutes from our house to watch the city’s fireworks. The view is amazing. Turn in any direction of a 360 degree circle and you get a beautiful view of the city lights, mountains and lots of fireworks!
Fireworks watching turned into […]
Posted in celebrating the seasons, family life, fun stuff on Jul 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
From MSN:
U.S. Citizenship Test: Could You Pass?
If you were born a U.S. citizen, you didn’t have to do anything to become a citizen–except be born. But each year, thousands of people have to take a test to gain citizenship. This quiz includes actual questions asked on the exam given by the Bureau of Citizenship […]
Posted in celebrating the seasons, family life, fun stuff on Jul 3rd, 2007 6 Comments »
While making a daily visit to Brenda’s beautiful blog, Coffee, Tea, Books and Me, I found this post about daily journaling that she had read on another blog. On her own blog, Eyes of Wonder, Jewels had posted an explanation of how she journals her day/life. Visiting there I knew I had found not only another beautiful blog to […]
