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  • Saturday Stream

    Guess what? there is nothing on my calendar all week next week? (Except Christmas, and it came printed that way.) No driver's ed (it's over, and dh let N drive the big old truck for an hour and a half on their way to East Texas, yesterday), no classes, no [...]
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    Posted: December 19, 2009, 9:50am EST
    by Christy

  • Tis The Season

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    American Vision has a great article today titled Exmas and Christmas. I don't really care for the name calling in the beginning of the article, though. The Word says that They will know we are followers of Christ by our love and I don't think calling fellow heirs [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:23pm EST
    by Christy

  • Christmas Music Post

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    I have a serious love/hate relationship with Christmas. I hate that they play it until you want to stick pencils in your ears. But one note of Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole and I am instantly 8 years old.
    Some (not all) of my favorite Christmas songs make no [...]
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    Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:36pm EST
    by Christy

  • I'm Going to Throw Up, and Then I'm Going to Die!

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    (That's a quote from The Grinch movie, with Jim Carrey)

    N started driver's ed on November 30. It is every night, 6 nights a week, for 3 weeks. Then, you schedule the driving time. Which is only 7 hours. Isn't that scary? Some of those kids will get' [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:42am EST
    by Christy

  • I let the boys walk to the ...

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    I let the boys walk to the store behind our house to buy soda. They enjoy it and it gets them out of my hair. (That's a joke. It's true, but it is a joke.) Usually, they buy generic 25 cent cans of whatever and said soda is consumed before [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 6:58pm EST
    by Christy

  • The Myth of the Freedom of Religion

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    The other night I was listening to a new, local drive time talk show. The personal jury is still out on the guy. Sometimes I really like him, other times, I think he's far too wishy washy. I'm not a huge fan of most big-name radio guys. In fact, I' [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:08pm EST
    by Christy

  • Snow Schmo

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    Thursday night I was thinking that we would not be able to go to our homeschool group's Christmas party due to snow. (go ahead B, Mrs. B roll your eyes, mumble...) We live off of a hilly, windy road. We do have a 4WD vehicle, but the heat doesn't work.' [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 10:11am EST
    by Christy

  • Fifteen Years Ago

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    At 10 pm, tonight we will recognize the start of a 30 hour labor to deliver N into the world, 15 years ago.
    To mark the occasion, we will begin 3 weeks of intense busyness.

    Mondays: 3pm, art
                    4:30 pm driver's ed
                [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:54pm EST
    by Christy

  • Er...I Mean Syrup

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    Bounty of the Texas Hill Country

     
    Prepping




     
    Mashing

     
    Marketing

     
    Vintage Fabric

     
    Product

     
    It [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:25am EST
    by Christy

  • He Wasn't Kidding

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    about taking orders. Q came home from his friend's house with more prickly pears.

      I'm thinking whimsical Christmas gifts.
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:16am EST
    by Christy

  • Boy Stories

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    The dig escaped yesterday. He has a special house he likes to go to. I sent the younger boys after him (I am too embarrassed to go after him anymore.) They returned with the dog and immediately disappeared again, with a bowl, into the woods.

    Unfortunately, I was not [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:54am EST
    by Christy

  • better than the alternative

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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:58pm EST
    by Christy

  • Team Captains

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    Q's last year to play Pop Warner football. He's #31. He was starting quarter back. He scored one of our two goals this year. These are all the 6th grade boys on our team. He's played football with them for 5 years. They will be' [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:50pm EST
    by Christy

  • Forgot about Saturday Stream

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    Oops! Yesterday was the last Pop Warner football game we will ever play. We have had fun playing football for the last 5 years, but I am glad to be done with Pop Warner. On many levels, which you know and understand, if you have read my blog at all.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 4:26pm EST
    by Christy

  • Conclusion to Pop Warner Issue

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    I was told this morning, that the reason Pop Warner is requiring mid-season progress reports from homeschoolers is that they had some otherwise ineligible players say they were homeschoolers when they really weren't.

    A. how many documented cases of this do they have? enough to warrant punishing legitimate' [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:21am EDT
    by Christy

  • Saturday Stream, It's Been a While

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    I don't even remember the last time I did Saturday Stream. I've been gone several Saturdays in a row, possibly a month.

    Sam and the boys had a Scout camping thing to do last night. I was home alone :-) I love being home alone. It's so quiet. I' [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:11am EDT
    by Christy

  • Bittersweet

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    We had a memorial service for my Papa on Friday. I am still a bit confused. The obituary said he was going to be buried in Pennsylvania. But there was an urn on a stand and people kept talking to it. Later this week, I'll give my mom a call' [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:47am EDT
    by Christy

  • Response from Central Texas Pop Warner

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    Thanks for the contact.


    Yes, I am the Administrator for Central Texas and I am the one that reminded Ed in our meeting about the need for the forms.

    For clarification the request I gave was for any Association that had a player with a 70 or [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 9:26am EDT
    by Christy

  • Letter to Pop Warner

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    (I have deleted certain information to protect our privacy)

    I'm not even sure that I am contacting the correct person regarding this issue. But I am contacting as many people as I can about it. It must be rectified.

    This is our family's 5th year to play [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 1:08am EDT
    by Christy

  • Bye Papa

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    I can hear his humming and his unique laugh.
    For the last 9 years, I kept saying, "The healthiest 80 something year-old that I know."
    Now, he's gone.

    I remember when I was about 8. They sold their house. A house I spent many nights in. I was' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 9:41am EDT
    by Christy

  • 20th Anniversary Trip

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     For our 20th anniversary, we decided to go camping in West Texas, Davis Mountains State Park, to be exact. West Texas is truly one of the most beautiful areas I've ever seen. It's amazing.



    Indian Lodge at Fort Davis State Park, built by [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 9:28am EDT
    by Christy

  • Parenting Styles, Edited

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    Every once in a while, I get the pleasure of comparing -yes, and you do it too- our parenting with others' parenting. It never occurred to me that one of my children would get to see the same thing. In general, we have gently guided our children to friends who' [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 9:44am EDT
    by Christy

  • Pet Peeves, Added to

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    None of the following words are interchangeable.

    suppository/supposedly (seen on forum today)

     also/instead of (a person very close to me uses also every time that they mean "or", or "instead of")

    even/evening (seen on FB, today)

     These two sets of words are the most often [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 4:43pm EDT
    by Christy

  • Even More Government Control of Your Kids

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    Obama Proposes Longer School Day, Shorter Summer Vacation Because studies show that spending more time in a classroom makes you more competitive with students from what nations? Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong.
    pass Maybe you think this is a figment of FoxNews' imagination? It's not.  Try 17 articles.
    Let [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:24am EDT
    by Christy

  • SOOO Much to Do This Week

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    If you catch me wasting too much time on FB, remind me of this list:
    1. school, including ODA
    2. football practice
    3. Scouts
    4. Youth Group
    5. Church movie night
    6. contact people to get rides for boys
    7. clean
    8. pack for ladies' retreat, camping and church leader' [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 9:40am EDT
    by Christy

  • Saturday Stream

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    The boys' football game was canceled today. We forfeited, we don't have enough healthy boys to put on the field.

    It's hard to know what to think about illness these days. If you cough, is it H1N1? Does that person across the restaurant, who is coughing, have H1N1? I'm [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 10:09am EDT
    by Christy

  • Mourning Shoes

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    We had a death yesterday. Snapper the hamster. I cannot say how or why he died. Hamsters do not live very long. Snapper was given to Quinton by a friend from church. His friend didn't want to play with him anymore, "He bites." (Not the only pet that Quinton' [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 8:37am EDT
    by Christy

  • Saturday Stream

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    Not much streaming through the gray cells this morning, except for snot.

    I have been struggling with a head cold since we went to the zoo on Monday. I'm not normally one to blame getting sick on being outside in the rain, and I'm still not going to. BUT...the [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 10:24am EDT
    by Christy

  • Whose House Is This, Anyway?

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    Last night, after football practice, the younger boys ran off to their rooms. Usually, I tell them several times, "Go take off your football stuff, wash up, eat..." But lsat night, they went straight to their rooms. Then, we heard what sounded like construction. Sam went down the hall, "Hey!" [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 9:25am EDT
    by Christy

  • It's Tuesday. Normally, at this hour, I ...

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    It's Tuesday. Normally, at this hour, I am trying to beat boredom at the library. Quinton and I seem to have caught cold at the zoo, yesterday. So, I took Noah to classes and came home.

    Moe and Quinton got math and grammar done and then we'll all work [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 3:27pm EDT
    by Christy

  • The Lord's Job Description

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    The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners; 2To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD And the [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 9:06am EDT
    by Christy

  • Saturday Stream, While I'm Waiting

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    Today was going to be extra busy, but the Lord has blessed us with rain and our football game was canceled. Now, all that I have to do is take Noah to Teen Court training, pick Moe and Quinton up from a sleepover and go to hear an amazing [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 9:08am EDT
    by Christy

  • Defining Liberty

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    LIB'ERTY, n. [L. libertas, from liber, free.]
    1. Freedom from restraint, in a general sense, and applicable to the body, or to the will or mind. The body is at liberty, when not confined; the will or mind is at liberty, when not checked or controlled. A man enjoys' [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 12:06pm EDT
    by Christy

  • This Week's Exercise

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    Philippians 4:8
     Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute,   if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. 
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 1:34pm EDT
    by Christy

  • Oops! Forgot Saturday Stream

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    This morning, I realized that I forgot all about Saturday Stream, yesterday. Guess my stream of consciousness was not thinking about blogging. I blame Facebook.

    Facebook is starting to get on my nerves. Not enough that I don't check it, because I do. Obsessively. Then, there are those games!' [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 9:22am EDT
    by Christy

  • If I'm Elected...

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    Yesterday, at lunch, I was sitting here, doing something dumb like watching Seinfeld on YouTube.("Heellooo" from The Voice, hahaha,) and I could hear the boys talking about electing a student body president. Noah was running because he's the oldest and Moe was running. Not sure why, except that he's as [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 9:06am EDT
    by Christy

  • Saturday Stream, Not As Late As It Feels

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    We had football pictures at 8am. I still feel like I am asleep, and it's now 11. Sam is taking the boys to weigh ins and then to sell popcorn. Note to self: Do not order $2K worth of show-and-sell popcorn in an economic downturn, or whatever they're calling it' [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 1:07pm EDT
    by Christy

  • worship This Week

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    Praise the King of KingsPraise the Lord of LordsYour blood is so precious, worth more than anything I know[IMG]http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p113/Isaiah5413/blog%20backgrounds%20and%20clip%20art/sig.png[/IMG] [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
    by Christy

  • Get It Out of My System

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    Hopefully, I will be able to move on today. It's too early for high blood pressure.

    Healthcare is not a right that is given to you by the government. Healthcare is a personal choice. Our country is not run by people's feelings. Our country is governed by laws. The [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 8:08am EDT
    by Christy

  • We dun caught us a 'coon Ma!

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    (WARNING! If you are squeamish, or you think raccoons are cute, furry, woodland creatures, you might not want to read this.)
    (Warning: I will try to make this post coherent, but I'm not crossing my fingers, so you don't either. The incident happened 24 hours ago. A lot has happened [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 10:25am EDT
    by Christy

  • At Least We Got Groceries

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    I finally made it to the grocery store today. I went with no list. I stayed in budget. We'll see if I bought enough food. I did the walk-around-the-perimeter-for-the-bulk-of-your-shopping-thing. Supposedly that is healthier than buying most of your food in the aisles. Don't get me wrong, we still bought [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 1:04am EDT
    by Christy

  • Wedding /Trap

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    We overnighted in Abilene, Texas this weekend for my cousin's wedding. You can imagine the fun that was had with the three, human cyclones. Sam pretty much let them run around wherever they felt like running around to. The motel's computer, the field behind the motel, the pool and up [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:54pm EDT
    by Christy

  • Boy Stories

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    If you ask me "How are you doing?" I will always tell you. I most likely will not say, "Fine," unless I am actually "fine." I have a new thing about not saying "fine," saying, "Well, thank you," instead.

    I walked down (literally, it's in a little valley) [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 11:54am EDT
    by Christy

  • Saturday Stream, Evening Edition

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    Pop Warner football started today. I had to be there at 7:30 for a parent meeting. Practice started at 8. When I got home just after 11, I went to sleep for a couple of hours. Then, I started laundry. Then, Noah asked if he could meet his friend at [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 9:39pm EDT
    by Christy

  • Playing with Culture

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    A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded the version of Firefox that is on this computer. They did not tell me that I would lose Sage, the Firefox feed reader. I was so sad :-( I loved Sage. It was just there. I didn't have to go sign in to' [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 9:28am EDT
    by Christy

  • What is Education?

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    Webster's 1828 Dictionary says,
    EDUCA'TION, n. [L. educatio.] The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 5:23pm EDT
    by Christy

  • Blog Buttons?

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    So...maybe I am just out of it. Or maybe I'm still the non-conformist that I was 20 years ago. Do bloggers really put other people's blog buttons on their blogs? Like Flair? You could have a collection of blog buttons. And if anyone cares...I'm not liking the uniform look that [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 10:17am EDT
    by Christy

  • Saturday Stream

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    Ohmigosh! It's Saturday. I didn't realize it, until I was looking over a post I put up yesterday morning.

    This week, I made two 360 mile round trip trips in the name of Youth Camp. Monday morning I left at 1:30 am, to have them there by 6.' [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 9:08am EDT
    by Christy

  • Saturday Stream

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    Sam has taken the car to have the windshield replaced.

    Here's a (un)funny boy story for ya. The boys were throwing acorns at one another. A rock got in the mix somehow and broke the rear window. Months later another boy was crawling over the top of the car,' [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2009, 9:47am EDT
    by Christy

  • Worship This Week

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    I know you have been waiting to hear some more boy stories. We have actually been getting some schoolin' done around here. Moe and Quinton decided to build a table for the tree house. I'll try to remember to get a picture. I hardly set foot outside between 9 am [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 12:42pm EDT
    by Christy
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