The ladies on my SHS loop were discussing their favorite summer dinners the other day. I didn’t have time to post it to the loop, but I’ll post a note for them to all come check out my recipe here. I served this at our worship team dinner the other …

“Beautiful as a flower to those who love it,terrible as a meteor to those who hate it,it is the symbol of the power and the gloryand the honor of the millions of Americans.” –Senator George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904)

Today is Flag Day! I know somewhere I have a bunch of pictures of the flagpole we have in front of our house, but I’ve not been able to find them quickly this morning (I feel another blog entry coming on regarding programs for sorting ditial pictures). I’m going to …

We recently removed most of our coffee table decorations from the old trunk that sits in front of our love seat and replaced them with a few books. For about a month now, I’ve had a fun book for *me* on the table which I’ll blog about in another entry. …

Since I’m on a flag themed roll here and I’ve recently cleaned out my scrapbooking room I happened to know right where this cute little flag was filed! Amanda and Emily each made one of these *MANY* years ago… probably when Amanda was in 1st or 2nd grade, but of …

This spring our homeschool co-op brought in Missoula Children’s Theater to put on a theater week for the kids in our co-op. It’s always an awesome experience. I’ve played in over a dozen now and never tire of it. This year Emily was cast as one of the main characters …

The first 2 pages go together to make a 2 page spread in our photo album. Really the pictures say it all (LOL), but I will journal somewhere that Josh is holding a rock that he found shaped like the letter J. He thought it was really interesting to find …

I don’t know if you can read the small print on these pages so I’ll quickly summarize them. Next time I’ll think ahead and cut/paste the journaling to the blog while I’m still in the edit page of the smilebox design. Here we’re heading out on our 2008 vacation. We …

I don’t remember who recommended Mozart’s Sister by Nancy Moser (Kristine perhaps?), but I’m so glad I saw it reviewed on someone’s blog. I LOVED IT! In fact, I plan to track down some more of this author’s books. I don’t normally use the LIBRARY (see previous blog entry for …

2008 READING LIST ***PERSONAL READING LIST*** Mozart’s Sister by Nancy Moser – 332 pages (blog review) One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury – 352 pages (blog review) Beyond Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury – 320 pages (blog review) Mitford Series: At Home in Mitford (#1) by Jan Karon – 446 …