Category: Creative endeavors
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The Stick Fort
Late on a summer afternoon, after exhausting his mother, Little "O" summoned the help of a new partner to hack and tie together the stick fort. I loved listening to their conversations about stick length and fort dimensions, Stacking sticks, Hacking sticks, And tying sticks, Watching this papa embrace his son's love of building…
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The Hacket
I woke up Saturday to a changing season. The air was cool and smelled of the damp cool earth. The insect chatter is quickly twindling, and the encroaching feeling of needing to be surrounded by wool is descending upon me. As I stared at my quilt laden boy sitting in his morning reverie, I didn't…
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A Mother’s Wish: Create with Purpose
…….a continuation from yesterday………. "Along with the foxes many doors have opened." During last summer, as I was greatly missing the foxes and as people constantly were asking me about them, I realized that I wanted to hold onto those cherised moments. "What about writing a book about them?" my husband asked It was this…
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Joy On Purpose: The Fox Diaries
Don't Forget! Today is the last day to enter the Little Acorn Learning Giveaway. It's open until 8 pm EST tonight. Please leave your comment here. Now back to our regularly scheduled blog post……. A little over a year ago I looked out my office window to see a mother fox with her 4…
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Look Up
What's that up there? Is it a plane? ……Is it a Rocket?……Is it a fish? Yes and much more. Yesterday was the Kite festival . Luckily we had great warm weather and a lot of wind. Everybody came with a picnic lunch and their kites. The big attraction was the coy pond.…
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Play It Loud And Dance Freely Because…..
IT'S SPRING BREAK!!!!! Finals are over and it's time to do the dance for joy. Please come dance with us.
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I Wore the Gauntlet
The instructions were simple really……. Love and take care of the dog. Keep the home fires burning. "All you have to do is keep adding wood to the fire but not too much wood or the smoke stack will catch fire. If you think you have the fire going too well just shut the doors…
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I got the big picture
I have the photo bug really bad. I can absolutely attribute this to the blogs. Before I had a blog I left the photo taking to my husband. To capture the treasured moments of each day and to recount memories of family tradtions and events, I started this blog. If we have stories we need…
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Some Things in my Ear
Yesterday Mimi and I headed to the store to do what's known as the "big shop"; buying everything needed for Thanksgiving dinner. With all of the cooking,crafting, and writing I'm doing lately, I have many things loaded onto my ipod to work by. Some of them are very unique items and others are old friends but…
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The Fairy Forest
Where the forest meets the sea, there is a pilgrimage of sorts. Mothers, fathers, grandparents,aunts,uncles, and all the children who love them, all become gatherers of sticks, bark, stones,sea shells, and moss. All walking down the forest path with their arms loaded. All coming to build a metropolis for Fairies. Hundreds of fairy…
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