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They Make My Heart Melt

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The last time my heart melted was because… I spend all kinds of time with JDaniel due to the fact that we are home together all day. I love to hear and sometimes watch my husband playing and chatting with JDaniel. It just melts my heart. Sometimes I just listen on the fringes of where they are playing. I am afraid to look in and disturb these Continue Reading

Not Good Mom!

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When we had snow on Christmas Day, I decided JDaniel would need to have his first snowman. At first, he was interested in helping roll the snow into balls. After a few minutes, he picked up his shovel and moved to a different part of the yard to dig in the snow and do work. I continued to work on the snowman building a second and third snowball. Continue Reading

I Don’t Like Singing in the Middle of the Night

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My sister Michelle gave JDaniel a stuffed rabbit that had Jesus Loves Me embossed across his chest that had been given to her sons almost a year ago. We hate this rabbit my sister had informed me. She also mentioned that her sons loved to throw it into the bedroom of one another after pushing his chest to activate box that causes the song Jesus Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Owl Moon Lunch

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Owl Moon is one of my favorite wintertime tales. Jane Yolen does a wonderful job involving the reader into a hunt for owls one cold winter night. The pictures by John Schoenherr draw you in and make you want to go on your own owl hunt. JDaniel is now dying to search the backyard in the dark to look for owls.>I decided to create an Owl Moon muffin Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn.- Calendars

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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

Waking Up to Find New and Old Dreams

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“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” ~J.M. Power The quote placed at the top of this post talks about waking up to live your dreams. As the mom of an almost three year old, I find that some days are not filled with fulfilling my dreams or even building towards them. Some days are about making my Continue Reading

If Mrs. Matlock Offers You Lemons, Take Them and Make a Pie

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  Every week for about nine months I have written a post for Mrs. Matlock’s Alphabe Thursday. There are about seventy bloggers a week that join Jenny Matlock in sharing ideas, thoughts, reflection and more that begin with a particular letter of the alphabet. Reading each of the posts along with the comments Mrs. Matlock leaves for all of her Continue Reading

Back to the Salt Mines

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Many of you probably returned to working in the salt mines yesterday after a holiday break. I have been working in the salt mines for several weeks now without a break in sight.My husband says I’m heading back to the salt mines almost every morning. I’m not sure if that is why JDaniel loved to pretend to work in the salt mines so much or it could Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- New Year’s Eve Meal

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Happy New Year! I hope that you and yours had wonderful New Year’s Eve and will have fantastic New Year. We had a Chinese carryout meal for > at my house. It was just the three of us so; I decided a fun meal that required no more than mom ordering food and taking it out of little takeout boxes would be wonderful. My guys both agreed a restaurant Continue Reading

Celebrating New Year’s Eve- Toddler Style

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  What is the toddler style? It means we will be celebrating at 12 noon on New Year’s Eve with JDaniel. What do you need for a toddler style celebration? Ingredients: Food   A meal that matches a place in the world that is actually celebrating New Year’s a twelve midnight. We are actually going to cheat and have Continue Reading

Wordless Wednesday- The Christmas Light House

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We visited this amazing house surrounded by lights and inflatibles right before Christmas. It is truly amazing. JDaniel's favorite part was the bag of popcorn they gave him as he entered the display area. He enjoyed the lights, but loved the popcorn.  Continue Reading

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