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Cousins
My brother, Adam, and his family are coming for the weekend. Everybody is super excited. I’m wondering what I’m going to feed everyone because I haven’t gone food shopping. Oh well, I’ll figure something out – we won’t starve. LOL The last time the cousins were together, the older children decided to play dress up…
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Sewing
I got Brett a sewing machine* for Christmas. We kept trying to sit down together and go over some sewing basics. But things kept interfering. So Brett took matters into her own hands. For her first ever sewing project, she made Indigo a nightgown: Gotta love homeschooled kids and their initiative. Pretty impressive, don’t you…
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A Bagging Party
We needed to clear some soaps off the curing racks because Jim was making a bunch of soap. Normally the bagging tables are spread throughout the soap room, but the children decided to bring them all together for a bagging party. They set everybody up with an individual station, put on music (Disney songs and…
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Dirty Chimneys
We heat our house with wood all winter.We love sitting around the fire as a family and hang out there as often as possible. It’s coming up on heating season, so we had the chimney professionally cleaned: The children thought it was really cool (anything with power tools is very cool) and pestered him with…
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Dinner for Ten
I love our family dinners. In the last six months, especially, the conversations are so much fun and we have a great time. The children always say something funny that makes us all laugh. And it’s the kind of laughter where we’re laughing with each other and not at each other. Last night was classic.…
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Fall Festivals
We love selling our soap at Fall festivals. Not only is the weather usually beautiful, but the people are happy and enjoy shopping. The children have a lot of fun working and playing at our soap shows. These photos are all from our local Madison Chautauqua where the girls were hard at work: Jim was the…
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Sisterhood
Indigo and Jade aren’t twins. They’re 16 months apart. But Indigo is so tiny that except for her much longer hair, she and Jade could pass for twins. It doesn’t help that we all like dressing them in matching clothes: Unfortunately, Brett has gotten too big to find matching clothes with her sisters (which she…
