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Freeplaylife Challenge::Week 41
This week is my favorite of all the weekly challenges. Know why?! Because it’s my freaking birthday today! I know most of you live far away. And have never met me in person. Or have met me but only...
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“Just Because” Is Enough.
Recently, Sassy has been going to a program for an hour a day to help her learn to read and write. She, like Naturalist, is super super dyslexic. Like Naturalist, we’ve handled it so far by giving her...
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O Christmas Tree; A Modern Retelling.
Once upon a time, a spectacular mom and two of her amazing kids went to a Christmas Tree Farm. As with many things in her life, the extraordinarily astounding mom wasn’t planning on it but after...
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A Dream Deferred Is Still A Dream.
So….this just happened….I’ve just bought one way tickets to South America for me and my 3 kids. One way!!!! I figure we’ll fly to Argentina and then work our way clockwise around the continent until we...
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Summer of Fun!
Hello good people of the internets! I am officially back from my 3 month trip through South America! I was technically back something like 3 weeks ago. But I didn’t really feel truly back until I had...
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Girly Day at the Beach
I’ve been hosting my sister’s 4 kids for the past 2 weeks, and today I took Sassy and her cousin to the beach. The older kids were tired and bored in the way only teenagers can be. “But I have beach...
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A Date With Sassy.
July 4th is Independence Day for our nation…for a mom, our Independence day occurs when our first child turns 12. All of a sudden, we have a child that can stay home alone/babysit the younger kids! If...
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Rescue 911: Heat Exhaustion and Helicopter Rescue!
I don’t always call 911, but when I do, it results in a response from a firetruck, paramedics, 10 squad cars, one police sargeant, and a team of helicopter paramedics hitched in to a helicopter. That...
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Helicopter Rescue, part 2.
When I left off my story last week, the kids and I went out on a day hike that ended up with Sassy and I stuck on the side of a mountain…her with worsening heat exhaustion and me not being able to get...
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Skanking With Goats.
Goats are my new favorite things in the entire multiverse. Entire. Multiverse. I don’t mind waking up at 7:15 in the morning and layering under mounds of socks and legwarmers and shirts and armwarmers...
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