This morning, we got a text message from Daniel, my newest brother-in-law. It said:
Wishing you the very best in this time of yearning between the now and the not yet.
Happy Christmas
Daniel & Amber
On this day of family, food, and friendship, I pray the same for you–both the yearning, and the fulfillment of it in [...]
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We’re going on a full week of single digit temperatures, and we’re expecting another 5 to 7 inches of snow tomorrow.
Up here in Idaho, we only put food in the refrigerator to keep it warm.
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…but I rather like it.
There’s nothing quite like sitting inside your warm, comfortable home watching the swirling white dance of snowflakes outside your window.
It’s been snowing all day, making it difficult for the kids and I to concentrate on sight words and counting by tens instead of daydreams of snowball fights and sled runs. I [...]
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Be warned: given my record as a grammar stickler, what I’m about to say may shock you.
I think the time has come to rewrite the rules.
Well, not all the rules. Just one, really. (Okay, two, if you consider that I’ve already embraced complete anarchy on the matter of sentence fragments.) And what, you may ask, [...]
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I love the vaulted ceilings. I love the fenced backyard. I love the open floor plan, and the Pergo floors, and the huge garage. I love my walk-in closet.
But most of all, I love having two bathrooms.
Two.
Bathrooms.
Do you realize what that means? I can be in one, and the kids, whose bladders were apparently set [...]
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