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Homeschool Workshop in Victoria, B.C.
Please email me HERE for more details or to register for this workshop. Saturday, November 7th, 2015, 10 - 4. Hey, but what the heck is it all about? And who are you, anyway?
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Revealing The Secret
Dear Readers. Today is my Mom and Dad's fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. It's been a hard and beautiful day, thinking about that. They had a marriage that we should all be striving for. My Dad...
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Dear people who read my blog,
I must say this. You are remarkable people. Week in and week out I talk myself out of writing anything because I don't really have anything valuable to say right now. And the laundry has to come...
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All By Myself
So. For all of you who responded via phone, text, email, message or by coming to my door...thank you. I sure know I'm loved.It's the weirdest thing. Here I am sitting in the Toronto Airport, it's...
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It Ain't a Perfect World
We get in bad moods, things go wrong, our kids misbehave. The juice spills, the bills come, people offend us. Every day. We enter into foray with our family members in the name of justice. We want...
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Landry Family Christmas Letter, 2015On more than one occasion this year, someone has commented that "it's going to be quite a Christmas letter this year..."This year, so very big for us, has caused me...
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Oh, mamas, thank you!
Being away from regular blogging for so long has taught me one thing. How desperately I need the therapy of writing. Of listeners. Thanks for never complaining at me.Thanks for never whining.Thanks...
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A Still More Excellent Way
First Corinthian 12:31 - 13:13We have heard it so many times. Paul tells us about love. What love is, and, more importantly - what is isn't. How many weddings, Masses, homilies, talks, books we've...
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Boy Happiness
Sometimes when you're a boy (not that I would now, but I'm pretty observant) you experience a foretaste of Heaven. Like when you get to forge your own knife blade. With steel. In coal. And then you...
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Be Encouraged here or there, Be Encouraged everywhere
I love a good Dr. Suessism. At any rate, two events coming up and here they are. Please feel free to share. For information contact me at ohthatssimple@gmail.comLangley, B.C.Los Angeles, California
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How To Raise a Political Snob
Conversation in the kitchen:16 year old: I think I'd like to understand politics better. I find politics interesting. Maybe I'd like to be a politician even.9 year old: I would hate it. You would...
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The Bathroom Chronicles
I'm going to share about my bathroom. I know you probably don't really care about my bathroom, but this blog isn't really ABOUT you. Sorry, but it's really about me. My one little corner of the...
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Theme Thursday, contrast
Well, I haven't joined a Theme Thursday for a long, long, VERY long time. Today's Theme Thursday, hosted by California to Korea, is CONTRAST.I like playing around with contrast in photos, and very...
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Checking Out
It's a skill. The demands of motherhood are truly more than we can cope with some days. Most days? We all have our way of checking out. Locking ourselves in the bathroom for a few quiet minutes....
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And he said, "Do you want to be healed?"
Today's Mass readings include the Gospel of John, where the story is told of Jesus healing an ill man, and instructing him to get up and take his pallet with him. It is the Sabbath, and Jesus'...
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