Blur

Tracey at Picture This was talking yesterday about the ‘blurries’ that sometimes happen when trying to get a nice photo with the flash turned off. She asked readers to share a photo they think ‘worked’ even with some blur. I immediately thought of this photo I took a few months ago and liked in spite [...]

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Works For Me Wednesday

(Update: picture added)
Playing Rocks In My Dryer: Works For Me Wednesday along with Shannon today. My tip for the day has to do with organizing photos.
Of course my ideal scenario would be to get all those lovely photos quickly and artistically placed into archoval quality albums. (yeah, right– I have an album for EACH [...]

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Bring it on….

…we’re ready for summer. We have a new pool! Our 3 year old pool had too many holes in it to resurrect, so we’ve been keeping an eye out for a good deal on one. Yesterday we found a 10 ft diameter by 30 inch high pool with a filter on sale for $40. These [...]

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Baby Hands

Today I wrote about Baby Hands on my Ethiopia Adoption Blog. I’d love your comments on it, either there or here. You may also want to check out the Carnival of Kid Comedy #12 over at Kim’s place! My Pavarotti story is there, as well as a bunch of other funny kid stuff.
Oh, and don’t [...]

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Four Weeks…

…since my son broke his jaw, and not only has he NOT lost weight like his doc warned he would, he’s GAINED a couple pounds!! I swear he’s grown an inch too. Never have I been so glad to prove a doctor wrong.
Tomorrow morning he trades the wires for rubber bands, which [...]

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Holiday Mixup

I’m having an odd experience this morning. By reading the calendar and the paper, and the many inspiring blog posts all over, I know it is Memorial Day. However it is feeling more like Mother’s Day here. Why?
Well, first of all, I slept in till 8:30. EIGHT thirty. Hubby finangled the litle girls out of [...]

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J is for…

Along with Shannon of Rocks In My Dryer, I’m playing an ABC game y’all may have seen floating around. She has assigned me the letter J.
Ten Significant Words Beginning With J.
1. J is for Jesus, my Savior, the reason I do not have to fear death.
2. J is for John, the wonderful man I married [...]

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Sunday

My grandpa and my 8 yr old- 1998
Isaiah 46: 3-4;

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It’s a Baby Girl

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER
AP
LOS ANGELES (May 27) – The baby has arrived _ and no, they didn’t name her Brangelina. Thousands of miles from Hollywood but still within easy reach of celebrity hype, Angelina Jolie gave birth to Brad Pitt’s daughter Saturday in Africa, Pitt’s publicist announced.
“The night of May 27, 2006 in Namibia, Africa, Angelina [...]

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Outfit Of The Week

Here’s my almost-4 year old in her most amazing outfit of the week. I call it her Gypsy Princess look.

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