Tag: children
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A Good Book is Never Out of Place
Books are a permanent and essential fixture in our home. Over the years, as I review photographs and memories, I realize that books are fixtures in our lives, not just our home. In the past year or two, I have made room in my life for a book club of wonderfully interesting women. We meet…
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Secrets of Parenting Success
What is the secret formula to raising a happy kid? a successful child? Since we are just making it up as we go along in this household on many days, I certainly don’t have the answer. But we remind ourselves of certain basic principles from time to time. “It’s not our job to toughen our…
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Getting Out of the Way
“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.” ~ Robert Brault And so it begins . . . Or depending on your perspective, and so it ends. The first of the college acceptance letters arrived in the mail this week and we were…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree
Kids chasing waves. Waves chasing kids. Carefree. ‘nuf said! — because isn’t “carefree” about less rather than more? Ciao! ~ Kat This post was in response to the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge. ”Carefree” was this week’s theme. Everyone is welcome to join in the Challenge; further details on how to participate and links to others’ responses are found here.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways
Returning to the Glensheen Arts and Crafts Festival, which was the subject of one of my first blog posts, seemed appropriate as this little blog celebrates its first anniversary! Glensheen is situated on a stunning piece of property on Lake Superior, so as we wandered through the artists’ booths, we made time for a detour down…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 