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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

George Washington

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(2016) Today’s adventures in third grade… My readers have been learning about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington because of Presidents’ D...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Snippets

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 (2014) Love these! Lily was 6. ❤️❤️❤️ Conversations with Lily are always interesting!  A few snippets from today as we were running errands...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

NASCAR

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 (2023) I was letting Lily practice her driving today and she went what I thought was particularly fast around a curve. I said, “Whoa, slow ...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Moms

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 One of my favorite memories of the boys is perfect for Mother's Day: one day when the boys were younger, they were arguing and bickerin...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Scotch Tape

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 (2016) You might teach third graders if ...You can’t find the Scotch tape on your desk and two of your little girls pipe up and say, “Oh we...
Friday, April 28, 2023

China

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 (2014) Life with Dylan 101.  He was assigned a project in his Social Studies class to learn about China. His task was to bring in a Chinese...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Easter

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 (2011) Life with Dylan:  This morning we were talking about Easter and I said, "Jesus died for us then rose from the grave three days ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Book

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(2012) I gave Lily a new Berenstain Bears book this morning and she gasped real big and said, "Wow! This is my most favoritest book I n...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Nehi Peach & Boiled Peanuts

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Nehi Peach and boiled peanuts.  Takes me back to our dating days when Skeet and I stopped along the roadside in the mountains to buy boiled ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Useless

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 (2016) Helping Bran with a paper for his British Lit class tonight that is about how the Victorian ideals of the time were portrayed in Dic...

Rag A Muffin

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 (2011) Whenever Lily Claire has been outside playing and she looks a mess, I tell her she looks like a little "rag-a-muffin."  To...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Skunk

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 (2013) Dylan came home all dirty and sweaty from his batting practice then played outside until dark.  When he came in, Lily took one step ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Rules

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 (2013) One of the hallmarks of being a Southern mother .... reminding your kids of every rule of good manners ever known to man while takin...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Marshmallows

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 (2010) Skeet bought Dylan a big bag of mini-marshmallows and now he's the new George Washington Carver of marshmallows!  So far he'...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Scratches

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I had a sweet memory today. I was cleaning the master bathroom this morning, and as I was scrubbing the sink on Skeet’s side, I noticed all ...