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Friday, February 6, 2009

Been a While

I t's been a while since I've blogged. Maybe the dreary weather has taken the energy out of me, I don't know. But I'm not fretting about it. Just going with the flow for a change. Its been a relaxed week. Even the two commitments I had, got canceled. I was not displeased about that. It's been good weather to just stay in. We have cooked a lot and my kids started complaining that they may soon get fat. So we added some Wii Fit to our routine. It seemed to perk us up some. My 17 year old daughter... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

A Hard Time

A hard time blogging. The prognosis for our friend's daughter gets worse and worse. The same day, another friend's son was given the same news. My heart is broken, words are inadequate. Listening is all I can do right now. Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Culinary School?

Culinary School? My 15 year old daughter is a very serious student. Even though she is homeschooled and could sleep in until noon if she wanted to, I always hear her alarm go off at 6:30 a.m. She is showered and working on school work by 7. Well, she has been forever struggling with what she wants to do with her life, even though I keep telling her she has plenty of time to figure it out, and that she might even change her mind once, twice, or even more. She has been contemplating pharmacy,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

My Heart is Breaking

My heart is breaking today. Some good friends of ours have a daughter who was diagnosed last Spring with a rare form of kidney cancer. She is only 22 years old...and newly married. She is one of the most sweetest, caring, kind hearted people I know. Anyway-she has been undergoing chemo treatments since last May, and just got news yesterday that the treatments haven't done much good. The tumor has only shrunk 2 cm overall. And the cancer is now in her blood and around her heart. Yet she clings to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Observations at the Rink

I have always wondered why it is that parents feel the need to push their kids into doing EVERYTHING? Yesterday, while watching my kids at ice skating, I was observing a woman with her son, who looked like he was barely more then a year old or so. She was forcing him out onto the ice, even though he was crying and obviously terrified. I have nothing against letting kids try things, but at that young, when they are so impressionable, it seems like the "pushing" of things can actually be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Off to Ice Skating

I am off to the ice skating rink in a short while. I am kind of dreading it today and am trying to change my attitude. I am going to pack a good book, a water bottle, a healthy snack and as I watch my children skate, I am going to try to remember how blessed I am. And how good the exercise is for their health. Ahhh, and the wonderful memories they will have. Ok, I feel an attitude change coming on already! I am thankful for the "therapy" blogit gives me! Ice skating....here we come! Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Living in the Moment

The best advice I ever received was this....To be present in every moment, every interaction, every action and every RE-action. I want to live like that. I really do. It can get hard at times, but to me, it is the ultimate goal to strive for. Because it sets the tone for everything in one's life. When my son calls me to go look at his Lego creation he has just built, I try to be present in how I react. I can say "Just a minute. I am doing something else right now." Or I can get up (because... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

My Fashion Designer

My sweet 12 year old struggles with math and reading and almost anything that has to do with book work. But she is an amazing artist, storyteller, creator and guitar player. She has an incredible knack for fashion. I just bought her a wonderful fashion design book on ebay, and we are going to spend the day having fun with it. Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Napoleon Marcotte

I find that I am becoming over sentimental about this genealogy stuff. My cousins and I have been facebooking, scanning and sharing pictures over the last weeks, talking about where we came from, and what these ancestors of ours might have been like. There is a sadness in me, a sadness because I never really got to know these people. And those I COULD have spent time with (now deceased), well, I didn't care that much at the time. Why is it that it takes growing older in order to come to an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 12, 2009

My Great Great Grandmother

As I grow older, I find that family history is becoming more and more important to me. I am in awe of those who came before me, of those from whom I came. My children don't understand that yet. I assure them that when they grow older, they will. This is my great great grandmother. Her name was Sophie and she died in 1919. I have to smile as I look at this picture. It looks like she is sewing, so I think that my daughters' knitting would please her very much. Is it possible that I even see a... Sign in to see full entry.

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My life often seems like a fragmented piece of fabric, all jumbled and mixed up. And yet, I realize that is because there are so many things that are important to me. Love for my kids, my desire to write, my "obsession" with the unexplainable and the sentimental, my desire to take "the road less traveled". All of these are threads of my life, each beautiful and simple in its own way. And all together, they make up the fabric of who I was, who I am and who I am becoming.

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