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Monthly Archives: March 2013

I think I’ve decided to make this one of our Easter traditions. The kids go ga-ga over these chicks!  I have to admit I like them quite a bit, too.  It’s an enormously popular, relatively cheap ($2.79 per chick) tradition that doesn’t involve candy and has a symbol purpose.  Win! We bought three chicks again […]

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Here is my follow-up to putting the toys away so as to avoid having a messy house.  It ended up as a long list of how we spend our time, though. We do still play with toys but usually just one bin at a time, or I’ll bring out one big toy for the day. […]

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About two months ago I got really, really, really tired of cleaning up the same toys over and over and over again.  The gunny bag idea had worked for a little while, but I didn’t follow through with it like I should have.   Even when we do the gunny bag concept I still have to […]

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There has been a lot of hype on the internet lately about encouraging moms to get out from behind their camera and into all the pictures they’re taking of their children (example: Embrace the Camera).  There are so few pictures I have of just me and my mom.  I can’t even think of one, actually, […]

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Dear Ben, Hi!  How are you?  Long time no talk. I thought I’d show you a little of what we did while you were in Utah/Idaho for Grandma Johnson’s funeral. After we dropped you off at the airport on Friday McKay and Jax cried the entire way home.  Jax was furious that you had the […]

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