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How Has The Blog Changed In A Year?

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This time last year JDaniel4’ Mom was in a totally different place than it is this year. Just has JDaniel has grown and learned new things since he turned two this time last year the blog has done that too. When I started the blog, I really hadn’t spent time exploring other blogs and setting measurable goals for its success. I just started blogging Continue Reading

Until There Was You

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Being an aunt is one of my very favorite things to be. I just love my nieces and nephews. They were for a long time my surrogate children. I was the last of my sisters to get married and the last to start a family. My sister’s children were the children I loved to spoil, sent cards to, bragged about, and displayed pictures of on my desk at work. Continue Reading

On The Day That You Were Born

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It was so quiet in the hospital room the evening JDaniel was born. My husband and I were staring down at our little bundle of joy. JDaniel laid wrapped in a soft blanket in an isolette looking back at us. He was the most beautiful baby either of us had ever seen. We could have looked at him for hours and hours. We did look at him for hours.Things Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Some of My Favorite Foods

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Dear Mom,Thank you for fixing me a meal with some of my favorite foods. Sometimes I look down and my muffin tin and want to add an extra sentence to my mealtime prayer. I would say something like, “Thank you God for this great food to eat. Mom made some of my favorites today.”I just love your meatloaf. I don’t know if it is the tomato juice you add Continue Reading

A Quiet Quit Hand Signal

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JDaniel and I went to our local children’s museum on Thursday. It was crowded due to several school having field trips there.Eight to ten year olds were running all over the water play area when we arrived. Water was flying out of the water pools. Waterwheels were spinning wildly shooting water across the pools and on to the children. Each child Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn.- Presidents

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Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books. Steps: Link your activity below. Continue Reading

Belly Laugh Leads to a Faucet Retreat

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On Mondays JDaniel and I go to playgroup. We have been meeting with many of these moms for two years. The kids know each other, each other’s toys, and homes like the back of their hands. Two days ago we met at Joe’s house. Joe’s house is known for its fenced in backyard as well as a sand/water table. When I tell JDaniel we are going to Joe’s, he is Continue Reading

Trimmings from a Tree Become a Beaver Home

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  He Loves Sticks JDaniel has always loved to gather sticks. He started gathering them as soon as he could walk. We have spent hours picking up sticks and carrying them to the woods behind our house. There have been times when his friend Nathan, our next-door neighbor, has wanted to do something else and JDaniel has told him he has to finish his Continue Reading

Chopping Down Trees a la George Washington

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  George didn't have a chain saw like the man we hired to trim our trees. He probably didn't have cherrypicker as he had either. He might have wished he had them if he knew they would be this much fun. JDaniel and my husband were mesmerized. I don't think JDaniel was scratching his head about how the cherry picker could go up and Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Lunch by George

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  In honor of President’s Day JDaniel had a George Washington lunch. Allegedly George Washington chopped down a cherry tree as a young boy. It was fun to try and come up with foods that had cherries or would relate to George's tree experience. The first items in the tin are turkey sandwiches. George probably hunted for turkeys on his various Continue Reading

“No, Thank You” Could Lead to a Coup Attempt

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“No, Thank you” should be a wonderfully polite phrase uttered when you are offered something that you have no interesting having or shouldn’t. It could be really wonderfully delicious second slice of chocolate cake that you really don’t need.It could be a cup of coffee offered when you walk into playgroup.JDaniel has started saying, “No, Thank Continue Reading

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