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Inspire

the children say “thank you”

January 25, 2012 Doing Good

This image overwhelms me.  Letter after letter of the deepest, most real and honest gratitude for what so many of you did for the children of Ishinomaki, Japan.  The children that you helped to clothe and feed and cheer up wrote us many thank you’s.

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an (artsy) field journal

January 24, 2012 Art

I wish this were mine.  But like many of my kids’ creative projects, they are made for their friends.  (I’m happy this one was for a little friend named Will who just turned four.)

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a family’s work

January 23, 2012 Art

Happy new week to you!  We had our first real snow of the winter (except for that bizarre snow we received in October) this weekend.  It is amazing how life turns out because I got to be the one to take the four girls out and eat snow and shovel while Bobby was ill.  I [...]

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popcorn balls and garland

January 18, 2012 Art
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nurse (nancy) johanna

January 17, 2012 Children Tutorials
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new spaces /new year: the living room

January 16, 2012 Art

Ah, the living room.  Once a place of no functional space now brightens my day.  This corner of our room (where our Christmas tree stood) has always baffled me.  Our large painting has always hung here, leaving little options for filling up the space around it: maybe a plant or a chair.  It has always [...]

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new spaces / new year: dinner helper

January 13, 2012 Creativity

It seems like all we do is prepare food, eat food, and clean up from eating food with a family of six.  Do you ever feel that way sometimes?  We recently started a chart of “dinner helpers” who are responsible for, well, helping with dinner.  Caroline, 6, and Johanna, 4, are the only two on [...]

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new spaces / new year: kitchen

January 11, 2012 Create

Good morning.  I’d like you to meet my favorite new hues of my otherwise unexciting kitchen. These colorful jars have a place on my kitchen window sill, a place where glasses usually sit (Bobby’s glass forgets about its place at the water station often), random buttons and other tiny objects, my herbs, and the likes. [...]

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arriving at functional spaces

January 9, 2012 Create

For the past week I’ve been building up momentum to totally change up my house.  I don’t know if it is the hole where the Christmas tree was or the new year or lack of enthusiasm with my house (and lack of functionality) right now, but it has become the obsession of the weekend.  I’ve [...]

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raw adventure

January 6, 2012 Family

We recently spent $3 on three bags of corn at a fly fishing shop next to Boiling Springs Lake.  Of course I fought Bobby on it, trying to convince him that the kids could still have fun in the freezing cold by walking around the lake and not feeding the ducks.  (I’m not always a party [...]

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