Isaiah 40:31
Archive for September, 2007
Sunday
Posted in Faith on September 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Opinion Saturday: what about electronics?
Posted in Opinion Saturday on September 29, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Last Saturday’s request for recipes produced several yummy-sounding ones. I’m giving the Golden Keyboard this week to Beth for her recipe for Crockpot Chicken Tacos. Thanks, Beth!
This week I’d love to hear about portable electronic devices in your family. Do your kids have Gameboys or other hand-held games? Why [...]
Running out the door
Posted in Adoption on September 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
… to go yard-saling again this AM, but I do have a real post up over at my adoption blog if you’re interested.
Back later.
The real price of all that yard sale stuff
Posted in Family on September 27, 2007 | 10 Comments »
$41, people. Not nearly as cheap as many of you thought, but still, I am very pleased, especially considering I got lots of name brand excellent quality goodies. The winner is Andrea, who guessed $42. I will be sending her a copy of the book I reviewed last week “Logged [...]
Children who wait
Posted in Adoption on September 26, 2007 | 22 Comments »
Our daughters have a good friend in Ethiopia. Her name is Tsion and she has been waiting at the AAI child care center for over a year now. She is starting to feel discouraged, wondering if she will ever get a family. She is 13 years old and she has three siblings, you [...]
Yard sale booty
Posted in Frugality on September 26, 2007 | 71 Comments »
After yard-saling all morning last Friday, our new 9 year old from Ethiopia declared that we should ‘no go to big stores again’.
Care to guess what we paid for all this loot? (We got 10 shirts, 4 pair shoes, 5 pair shorts, 3 pair wind pants, 6 pair jeans, 1 pair skates, 2 bags, [...]
Apple basket- day 5
Posted in Healthy Living on September 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Scenes from today
Posted in Family on September 24, 2007 | 10 Comments »
–Watching a certain child who shall not be named take 40 minutes to write two sentences. During which time I listened to another child read, assisted with 5 math problems, and canned 5 quarts of tomatoes. Smiling serenely in an attempt to keep my head from exploding at the sheer stubbornness of [...]
And here I thought I was so grown up
Posted in Fun & Games on September 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Got a really nice email the other day from Jason at Adultitis who said he and his wife Kim enjoyed my blog and that they’d awarded me the Adultitis Antidote Award. Thanks for the encouragement, you two!
Sunday
Posted in Family on September 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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I'm Mary, wife to John, and mom to 10 kids ages 3-20. Six of them were adopted, from Ethiopia and Korea. I spend my days applying Bandaids, reminding kids to use their inside voices, persuading kids fractions are useful, cooking spicy ethnic food, and snapping gig after gig of pictures. Very late at night, I write about it all.
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