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Author Archives: Laura
September Sewing: Babies, Babies Everywhere!
For instructions on how to make and use these cloth wipes, see this post! As you may have noticed, I sew a lot of flannel blankets for babies. Thanks to the YoungLives blanket project, I’m completely out of flannel in … Continue reading
Alaska, Summer 2011, Part 20: Cousins, Cousins, Cousins!
Part 20 in a series about our trip to Alaska in late June through mid-July, 2011. Although you may not have been able to tell so far in this series about our trip to Alaska, we spent lots of time … Continue reading
A Glimpse
Ellie has been sick. Since Wednesday. With a stuffy nose that is sometimes really runny. And I think itchy eyes (because she rubs them a lot). And a cough. And when you have all of that, it’s hard to nurse … Continue reading
Posted in Ellie, faith, parenting
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Squinty, Squinty
Lately, Ellie has taken to giving us “squinty eyes” whenever she’s unhappy about something. This is not actual crying but rather, “Woe is me. You’re not doing what I want you to do. Let me pretend to be upset.” For … Continue reading
Posted in Ellie
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Alaska, Summer 2011, Part 16: Camping Trip #2 (the final day)
Part 16 in a series about our trip to Alaska in late June through mid-July, 2011. The agenda for the final day of our camping trip was to go rafting on the lake! We were planning on going rafting each … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Ellie, family, travel
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Stocking up for Winter
We had a busy weekend! I made 20 portions of pesto (enough for 20 meals worth of pesto pasta). I freeze them in cookie-shaped portions on cookie sheets so another way of saying this is that I made 20 … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, KIOS
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Garden Update
Here’s your early September garden update: Crazy heirloom tomatoes from early August The peppers are still going strong but the cucumbers are dead and the tomatoes nearly so. The beans are almost finished and the basil is still growing. Swiss … Continue reading
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August Sewing: Surprise Project #5 (a Christmas present)
The sewing portion of this blog is going to be pretty boring around here for awhile because all the major projects that I’m working on between now and Christmas are surprises. Here’s a taste of one of them though. Don’t … Continue reading
Free!
I am basically finished with sorting and purging our whole house. I just finished our basement. All I have left is our office file cabinet and the garage. We already did a lot in the garage two weeks ago so … Continue reading
Posted in house/neighborhood, reflecting
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Is it enough for me to say that I don’t hate you now?
I’m on a huge, perhaps obsessive hunt to purge our house of all unnecessary things. We’re having a yard sale on September 17th and my mission is to have every nook and cranny of our house sorted and purged by … Continue reading
Posted in family, just for fun
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Salmon and Souvlaki 