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We Spent a Few Days at the Ocean

By Christine / July 29, 2008
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Walking to the Beach Playing with the Sand Father and Son You Found Me Hiding Waiting for a Wave It’s Going to Get Me The Water is all Around Us, Daddy More to come…maybe.

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Brother Grizzly Bears Playing

By Christine / July 29, 2008
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I intended to share this video a couple of months ago, but we have been very busy. The bears at Woodland Park Zoo were a favorite with many people, including my children and my nieces (girls are predominant in my family). The grizzly bears seemed to be more active than usual. Finnian enjoys watching our…

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Amazon Beta Widget Testing

By Christine / July 25, 2008
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Last night, I decided to add a Beta widget from Amazon’s associate program. This morning I was surprised to see how many links my posts have to Amazon products. One thing that would make this widget better would be coding it to ignore phrases and words that are not capitalized (excluding the two and three…

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The Humility of Pregnancy

By Christine / July 25, 2008
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My children and I are trying our best to go to daily Mass. When we are able to do so, I feel that I have given my children “the best”. However, giving my children the best sometimes comes with a price when I am pregnant and have a toddler who feels that the church is…

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Discerning Curriculum for 2008-2009

By Christine / July 23, 2008
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Catherine: Continue to use Seton (fully enrolled) Bernadette: Still praying Brendan: Religion: Seton’s Religion 3 FYC and St. Joseph First Communion Catechism (review), plus daily Mass, hands-on projects, and celebrating feasts throughout the liturgical year Math: Calculadders and Math 3 FYC Language Arts: English 3 FYC, Stories with a View, Handwriting 3 FYC, and reading…

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Refrigerator Alliteration

By Christine / July 15, 2008
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Me: “Patrick, please close the refrigerator.” Patrick: “But I am feasting on feta.” Me: “Patrick, please get out of the refrigerator.” Patrick: “I am munching on meat.”

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Zelie and Louis Martin

By Christine / July 12, 2008
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Maureen shared the following in the comments and I thought that it was such wonderful news that I had to share it as a regular post: Cardinal Saraiva Martins is to announce the date and place of the beatification ceremony for Ven. Zelie and Louis in France on July 12 or 13. For videos about…

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Children’s Music

By Christine / July 10, 2008
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Ever since I can remember, my children have referred to classical music as “children’s music”. They will invariably ask to listen to children’s music when we are driving somewhere. Recently, as I took my two eldest to a birthday party, Patrick exclaimed, “Mommy, I really like this children’s music. Can we listen to it again?”…

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Happy 4th of July

By Christine / July 4, 2008
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In addition to our usual celebrations, we will be reading The Fourth of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh today.

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