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Scenes From Our Week – Week 46

Summer is over for us as I post this.  Tomorrow the kids go back to school and we start the routine all over again.  I think we are all ready for the change, but still sad to say good-bye to summer.  There were things we didn’t get done, but hopefully can still fit some of…
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Scenes From Our Week – Week 45

This was a busy week with catching up from vacation and getting ready for school.  We purchased school supplies  sorted through the kids’ drawers and closets and bought new clothing.  We also did a lot of Olympics watching since we had missed out on it the first week. The boys had another Sheltered Reality performance…
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Scenes From Our Week – Week 44

After a week of being gone, it seems like it takes another week to catch up at home.  So, yes, this post is a week behind.  We had a great vacation starting off with a Cubs vs Pirates game in Chicago and then moving on to total relaxation at our cousin’s cabin on Lake Vermillion…
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Scenes from Our Week – Week 43

We finally had a week where we were mostly at home.  I spent a lot of my week on the porch in our new furniture reading and enjoying the cooler weather. Pat took the kids to Des Moines to watch our baseball team play in the state tournament.   Even though we didn’t win, I…
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Scenes From Our Week – Weeks 41 and 42

Many of you know my mom has been sick.  In mid-April, she went to the ER for diarrhea that couldn’t be controlled and left finding out she had a mass the size of an orange that was on her lung.  Three months and multiple doctor appointments, labs, x-rays, CT scans, PET scans, and retelling her…
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Scenes from Our Week – Week 40

Sorry for the lack of posts this week.  I feel like I am still playing catch-up after being gone two long weekends in a row.  Then this week I was gone everyday for a class I was taking to keep my Substitute Teaching License.  Nights were busy and if they weren’t I was playing catch-up…
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Scenes From Our Week – Week 39

I am sure most of you are thinking what I am thinking….June is gone already?!?!?!  It went by much too fast. There is only about 50 days left until school starts and still so much we want to do.   One thing that is almost done is our new patio.  Pat has been working hard…
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My Trip to Nashville

I traveled to Nashville to visit my BFF, Tammy, who had moved there a year ago.  I have been wanting to visit and made it part of my 40 Before 40 goal to get it done.  I finally found a long weekend that worked for both of us and I booked my tickets.  I had…
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Day #35 of Summer Vacation

Instagram had an update today and now I can’t post the pictures they way I was before.  Grrrrrr!   Anyway, here is our Day 35…..Bennett on the left and Patrick on the right performing at the end of KICKS Camp with Sheltered Reality’s Drum Group.  
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Day #34 of Summer Vacation

We have had a such a hectic schedule lately, I can’t remember the last time I cooked dinner and we all ate together.  It has been nice to be home together this evening.  We even had some delicious sweet corn and fresh tomatoes from our own tomato plant.
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Stacie's bookshelf: read-in-2023

The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
The Royal Governess: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II's Childhood
Food Fight
Spare
Foster
This Time Tomorrow
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
Save What's Left
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
Golden Hills
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Favor
Small Things Like These
This Is How I Lied
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Audrey L and Audrey W: Best Friends-ish: Book 1
Audrey L and Audrey W: True Creative Talents: Book 2
Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
It Is Well With My Soul: My Story
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Book Lovers
A Girl Called Samson
Finn and the Feline Frenemy
The Levee
The Golden Spoon
Only the Beautiful
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
The Sisters Sweet
Fish in a Tree
This Tender Land
Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Ben Y and the Ghost in the Machine
The Great Gilly Hopkins
BenBee and the Teacher Griefer
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Beyond the Point
The Family
Hamnet
The Bookstore Sisters
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
The Cactus
Black Cake
Ban This Book
Passing
I'm Glad My Mom Died
These Precious Days: Essays
Evidence of the Affair
The Night Travelers
Out of the Corner
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
One Day in December

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