Life doesn't always go as planned. Help others anyway.
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It appears I did very little instagramming this week. We’ve had one of those boringbusy weeks. And then an impromptu trip out of town for 36 hours to go visit my grandma in the hospital. (She’s home now.) But […]
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I taught the 2-3’s Sunday School class one year. About 3 weeks in (as in, three whole Sundays), I realized that a teacher I was not. All the advance planning, prep work, being patient with other people’s kids…reading stories through tears and whines and spilled Dixie cups of apple juice were just not my gig. […]
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My kids live a pretty charmed life. In fact, they have A LOT more opportunity and frankly, STUFF than either Andy or I ever did as kids. I was raised by immigrant grandparents who filled our home with love in broken English and traditional Portuguese soup, but had little for all the gadgets on TV. […]
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On a Friday even. Isn’t that sumthin? (I’m jeannettg on Insta if you want to follow.) My tree. Absolutely DRIPPING in tinsel. I couldn’t get this photo of a tree from the 1940s out of my head. Can’t you just picture it in the grand lobby of a fancy New York hotel? Sigh.. My tree? […]
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The holidays (and by holidays, I’m going all the way back to Halloween because that’s the gateway drug of busy season) are a busy time of year under normal circumstances, and throughout the ages. Things just get hectic. Quick. Nowadays? Between blogs and Pinterest, you can Making Memories yourself into a stress induced coma. And […]
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Books, books, books. Everywhere you look in my home, there will be at least one book somewhere. On the floor. Peeking out from under the couch. Piled high on the nightstand. Both nightstands. Jam packed into shelves. Henry struggles with reading, but he loves to look at the pages and his favorite is being read […]
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You all know how much I love our family pictures. They capture us. Who we are. A rowdy, loud, silly, woefully imperfect bunch bound together by love. We are a sloppy kisses, tight hugs every 2.7 minutes kind of crew. I might yell and even lock myself in the bathroom for just. one. second. of […]
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I don’t send out Christmas cards every year mainly because I often don’t have that perfect Christmas card worthy family photo. Which is really silly because there are no rules when it comes to these things. And honestly, I’ve found that the years I don’t send out cards, I GET fewer cards…and then I’m […]
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