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In Rememberance

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I haven’t been on the blog for a few days…. It’s because I had been getting the family ready to go to New York City…. For the 10th anniversary of 9/11…. For the 10th anniversary memorial for my friends from Ladder 3. And then living 7 days in the big city, navigating the massive maze [...]

Difficult Decisons, Unpopular Choices- Part 1

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I had promised to share this post with you all yesterday, however, we lost another firefighter in Texas and I wasn’t able to post like I had hoped.  Here goes… John and I have been mulling over, thinking about, and praying quite a bit about the decision of educating Catherine.  Over the last year we [...]

A Sunday Bucket List

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I am bringing out the good ol’ trusty bucket list for this post.  Here are the recent happenings: It’s crazy hot.  It’s stupid hot.  Hell isn’t as hot as Texas right now.  It was 111 degrees today.  I’m over it.  I’m ready to complain about the cold weather again. I have had a category 1 [...]

Studio Saturday- Backyard Edition

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I had wild hair today and decided to set Catherine up with a big cardboard box and some tempura paints and then let her go wild.  I told her that the only rules were that she couldn’t paint her hair, her face, us, or the animals.  She had a ball!  She actually spent more time [...]

End of Summer

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We are definitely on the downhill slide of summer.  The pools are closed during the week.  The yellow school buses are out in full force.  And Christmas decorations are being sold at all of the arts and crafts store.  And while I am pretty sad that there will hardly be anymore swimming, I am looking [...] Related Posts with Thumbnails