This time of the year many towns around the area have a Christmas Stroll, our little town included. Each business donated “something” to the stroll. Most businesses served some sort of snack or beverage and some gave away little “things.” Our business provided the music. Imagine that. Initially, we thought …

First, I want to mention a couple of ladies who you can thank for this new out-of-my-normal-style blog entry. You see, I don’t normally post anything that isn’t new, exciting, fun, or successful. For me to post something so “personal” as how our days REALLY go (which I’m about to …

DINNER’S SERVED!! A few months ago one of my friends …. …introduced me to Dinner’s Served… a place where you can go to prepare home cooked meals. They do all of the cutting, chopping, cleaning, gathering, measuring, etc. You go home with an entire cooler full of WONDERFUL meals to …

CONTINUOUS SHOOT MODE!! WHOO HOO!!!!I can’t BELIEVE all of the shots I was able to get while Josh and his cousin (2nd or 3rd?) played football. My old digital camera didn’t have a sports mode so I always missed the action shots at volleyball and basketball games or while the …

CORN MAIZE:Today we went to the corn maize with some of our fellow homeschoolers. I wasn’t going to take the time off from “school” to do this, however, it was SO NICE outside and it “did” tie in with our school when you consider that corn was one of the …

WHAT A SWEET TREAT! What did we do to deserve this special treatment? The sweetest thing happened on Friday morning when I received a phone call from a church friend and fellow scrapbooker, Susan. She asked if she could bring something out to our house. Fortunately, our house was STILL …

TONGUE RIVER CAMPING was our spot of choice this year. We ended up getting to go there THREE times which is a lot for us for one summer. Josh had a BLAST catching fish… we were catching so many that he very quickly learned to take his own fish off …

SEATTLE TRIP:In June the girls, Nathan, and I headed out to Seattle on the spur of the moment to go to the homeschool graduation of good friend of ours. A family friend of ours, Bonnie (flower bed planting Bonnie) also came with us. She went to visit her family while …

1st Quarter 2006 – SKIING:A word from Amanda: This year I wanted to try snowboarding, so I had my friend Libby help me with that one day. It was alot harder than skiing in my opinion, but I still had a lot of fun.I don’t know if I will try …