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Labor Day Weekend
To commemorate the last weekend of summer (a joke in Florida, of course), we headed down to Pompano Beach which is just north of Fort Lauderdale. Â I am usually not a big fan of the ocean with the kids...
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More Beach
This week was the semi-annual consignment sale, Boutique for a Week, in which I participate. Â There is a lot of prep involved because you have to tag all your own stuff which means picking a price,...
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Soccer
Two years ago when Brady was three we made the mistake of signing him up for soccer with the girls. Â He lasted half a class and was done. Â Ever since, he's been saying that he'd play soccer again when...
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Fasting
Last weekend (not the one that just passed), we celebrated Yom Kippur which entailed Duncan and I fasting from sunset Saturday to sunset Sunday. Â As I had mentioned in my last post, this is the first...
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Hurricane Matthew
At the beginning of last week, grumblings started happening about a hurricane headed in our direction. Â This is not a surprising development as Florida is an area where hurricanes pass by, usually on...
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Field Trip - Atlanta and Chattanooga
Just as we did last year with our fall field trip to Williamsburg, Jennifer, Vasti, and I decided to do a field trip this fall...a tradition in the making, if you will. Â This year we (or it was me, I...
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Catch Up Time Again
Since I'm about three weeks behind if you take out the week we were gone, I figure I'm going to just do a picture summary to catch up. Â So here we go...Love watching the kids all enthralled in the same...
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A New President & Camp Kulaqua
Last weekend we were at Camp Kulaqua with Adventurers, hence my lack of a post. Not too much happened last week though - - just the presidential election!I don't want to get political on here so I'll...
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Thanksgiving and Beyond
Good thing I don't believe in Santa or I would be on his naughty list for my tardiness in posting here. The thing is, I have the best of intentions but each evening when I should be typing, a Christmas...
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Christmas 2016
After nearly a month hiatus, I'm finally back! Â What can I say, Christmas is just really busy around here (plus, I STILL can't stop watching Hallmark movies at night when I'm supposed to be doing other...
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Boys Will Be Boys
There is a big difference between little boys and little girls and one of the most noticeable of those differences is the desire in little boys to fight and beat each other up. Â Duncan has a pair of...
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Puppies!!
Pretty much ever since the last of our two dogs, Dewey, died in March of 2012, the kids that could talk started asking for another dog. Â But we moved soon after that and then another baby came along in...
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More Boy Trouble
No sooner did Colby heal from his glued forehead and his bout with vomiting, did another mishap befall him....this time completely of his own doing. Â The kids were very kind and gave to me as a...
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Super Bowl Champions!
My kids have been so spoiled! Â When I was a kid, Boston sports teams weren't all that great. Â The Celtics won a championship in 1984 but I was eight and don't really remember it. Â I remember the Red...
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Lice Attack
I will not hide my head in shame. But only because I have to make sure my head doesn't rub up against anything and hiding it might do that. Â On Sunday, we discovered that we had lice. Â Many of my...
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Field Trips
Last week we had fun going on several field trip outings with two different home school groups in which we belong. Â On Monday we went to the CARE Foundation in Apopka which rescues wild animals (some...
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I'm still here...March was super busy with all of our company visiting and then April has just gotten away from me. Â Hope to have a posting this weekend.
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Spring Break
There is a LOT to catch up on so I will mostly do this in pictures. Â This will be Part 1 of the catch up.On March 1 my mom flew down from MA and spring break was under way. Â My dad and the Shawn Braces...
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Catch Up # 1
Most of the family left on March 15 but my dad stayed with us until March 24. Â It was SO terrific having my dad here the extra time. Â I am loving the partial retirement that enabled him to do it. He...
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Catch Up # 2
Please read the post below this one too. Â Blogger was driving me nuts with how it was formatting things so I decided to break this up into two posts. Â Grrrrr...I am going to go back to mostly posting...
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