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Lucy is Three!
Lucy turned three on September 12, and we celebrated her birthday the following day with family. I can't believe my baby is three - she is not a baby any more! ;(The birthday banner... I made this for...
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Daybook for September 29, 2014
Outside my window... cool temps and humidity. We had rain this morning. It is damp, but I think I will get the kids outside after rest time is over so they can enjoy the cooler air. It will be back...
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Daybook for the First Week of November, 2014
Outside my window... it has cooled off significantly. Rainy here and there in the past couple days, but beautifully sunny today, although still windy and chilly. The kids have been enjoying the back...
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All Saints Celebrations
This year, Halloween fell on a Friday. We went to the vigil Mass of the Feast of All Saints Day, where the children are invited to dress as saints or figures from the Bible. There is a...
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Advent 2014
It has been awhile since I posted any updates on what is going on here. We have had a very difficult past two weeks. I had a miscarriage at 9-10 weeks into my fourth pregnancy, and now we are all...
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Family Geography Studies
Some fellow homeschoolers recently asked me to share our Family Geography studies here on the blog. This is something we do in the first grade as a way to learn some geography and history that is...
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Soul Gardening Journal
I started getting this wonderful little magazine this past fall... it is written by Catholic mothers and is mailed out, in print, for free. They exist solely on donations. And I was so impressed with...
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Ramblings, Part I
The nun habits the girls got for their dolls for Christmas... so cuteSo, this will be a rambling post... and every time I sit down to try to put an update here, I feel like I have so much to say, and...
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Ramblings, Part II
A creepy photo of Lucy to kick this post off... those are stickers from Trader Joe's. I love Trader Joe's... except that they think kids need 20 stickers each. When I was a kid, we would get one,...
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Ramblings, Part III
Beef stock... looks delicious with all those vegetable chunks floating around in there, huh? Well, it was, after I strained it, that is. We made beef stew with it a couple weeks ago and froze the...
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Modern Mothering and Miscarriage, Rants and Reflections
So here's some of the loveliness that is going around online lately...First, the whole vaccination thing. Apparently the measles outbreak where 90 people at Disneyland came down with it has some...
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Artwork and Thoughts, on a Snow Day
That comma in the title is intentional... because I don't have many thoughts on the snow itself, just other thoughts. But here are the gratuitous kids in the snow photos... as the snow was falling, I...
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Trip to Blue Ridge
Thought I'd share a few photos from the trip we took to Blue Ridge with friends that I mentioned in the last post. We had six adults and 14 kids ages 1-10 at our friends' cabin for the weekend. Here...
View ArticleSome Good Reads
Came across a few articles lately that are very good reads... and since I'm not sharing stuff on my Facebook page, I thought I would link them here.In Praise of Catholic HomesteadingI so want to do...
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Happy Laetare Sunday!
It's Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent - meaning we are a little more than halfway to Easter! This is one of the days that the priest wears rose-colored vestments - there are only two days per...
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The Here and Now
I would have been 24 weeks pregnant now. What a great stage that is in pregnancy... feeling the baby move often, but not feeling exhaustedly huge yet. Some days are a breeze, others are difficult. I...
View ArticleThe Waiting is the Hardest Part
It really is, despite how cliche that phrase sounds... although when Tom Petty sings it, you have to agree that he doesn't do a good job at making waiting actually sound hard. It sounds all laid back...
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Daybook for May 26, 2015
Outside my window... hearing the frogs in our little pond. It's evening and the kids are in bed, and now I have a chance to write a bit. I am thinking... about too many things right now. We are...
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Article 6
I had a bunch of paragraphs in my head but now that I sit down to write, I think most of them are gone. I will try anyway.I went to Atlanta last weekend to attend a Catholic homeschool conference on...
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Six months...
A photo posted by Erin Nadolski Lewis (@erinnadolski) on Jun 14, 2015 at 7:11pm PDT This is what six months looks like. What one month until my due date, yet not pregnant, looks like.A photo posted by...
View ArticleDiscouraged
This is a long journey, and it is very difficult to get away from the feelings of discouragement. When you are discouraged over a big thing, like wondering why your body can't conceive after losing a...
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Long Time, No Update...
I'm often finding myself too busy to update the blog... I really should make a grocery list right now, or sweep, or do laundry, or something otherwise useful, but I will throw out a little update here....
View ArticleGetting Ready for Baby! (an update, at last)
I have not written anything here in many months. To my two faithful readers, I apologize, ha ha. The big news is that we are finally pregnant again - 23 weeks pregnant now! We found out on the second...
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The Birth Story of Frances Philomena
Could it be possible that you will be the last tiny one I will hold against my chest, the last one I will feel moving and shifting inside me? I have realized this beginning with my second baby,...
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Catholic Used Curriculum Sale!!
I have a few items for sale - this post is linked up thru the Shower of Roses curriculum sale. $3.99 media mail shipping rate will be charged in addition to the price of each item. Can combine...
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