Teaching Children about Investing

How can a backyard garden teach children about investing? While all of the investment lingo can be confusing for even adults, nature can easily make sense of investing.  Actually, we all practice investment strategies all the time but just aren’t aware of it.  It’s not that hard to understand the basics of investing.  Basically, you [...]

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Embrace the Season You're In

    Life seems to come in seasons. One season begins, another one ends.  Too often, I long for the season that I’m not currently in.  I want to be more productive, I want to be thinner and I want to have more freedom.  Yet, the season I’m in is good, very good.  When I [...]

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The Anatomy of a Family Portrait

Getting a family portrait taken around here is like trying to pull teeth without anesthesia.  Really.  It doesn’t matter how much I prep them, how few and far between the requests are, when it comes time to get dressed and pose, everyone melts down. The last family portrait we took was 5 years ago when we took a [...]

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CVS Savings, Engine Envy & Testosterone

CVS had Palmolive on sale for 97 cents along with Colgate on sale for $2. My wonderful newspaper man brought us THREE copies of coupons this week, earning a Christmas bonus early in my mind! Dude! SO, with three coupons for .50 cents off the Palmolive, making it .47 cents, as well as three coupons [...]

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Colin

This is Colin, our third biological child and second son. Colin is the most like my husband of all my children. He lives in the shadow of his older brother, trying to figure out who he is, much like my husband did growing up. He is terribly creative, funny and quite the musician, playing his [...]

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Isaac Starts to Read

Isaac is 5 years old. He is a smart, little whip, that’s one of the benefits of having so many older sibs. He has been ‘ready’ to read for a while now, but the last 6 months has been overloaded with issues from the adoption and we’ve been in ‘survival mode’, if you know what [...]

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Wonderful Fall Leaves!

It was a gorgeous fall day here, blue skies, lower 70′s…amazing. Growing up in the south deprived me of enjoying the four seasons. Florida was a great place to grow up, but I wouldn’t give up fall for anything! I love to watch the kids play in the leaves. I was asking Bereket if they [...]

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Football Practice in the Dark

Now that the days are getting shorter, it seems that poor Eli is out in the dark with his coaches and fellow players for football practice most every night now. I hate that for them, especially when it’s raining. Strange thing, they love it. The other night, I picked up Eli from practice while it [...]

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How the Male Brain Works

Ever since I had my first son, I knew something was wrong.  After having a daughter first, who sat and played with a toy for hours at a time, this son of mine MUST have something wrong with him. First off, he was 10 # 2 oz. at birth.  He looked like he was 6 [...]

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Monday, Monday….so Good to Me!

Bereket finishes pattern blocks with success! Today was like any other Monday, rich with the sounds of scanners running, pencils sharpening, DVD’s for school being loaded and oatmeal being complained about. The only difference today was that Meredith was in a hurry to finish her school work so that she could go to work with [...]

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