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Just a few shots of my day on Friday. . .

This weekend my kids and I took a day trip to Vancouver to soak up some Olympic goodness. We didn’t have tickets to anything, but we just wanted to be in the city among all of that good feeling. It was an incredible experience. We were there late enough Saturday night to see all of [...]

2.22.2002 — An auspicious date if ever there was one. For our family it was especially so as this date marked the arrival of our little Leo.
Today my little star boy is eight years old. I love his birthday for the opportunity it gives me to remember what a gift he is. This little one [...]

It is so interesting to me to have these two back to back days, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, that inspire in me to think in two such completely opposite ways. Today feels like a day to look back over the year that was 2009. Though I usually find it much more difficult to look backwards [...]

Last night I attended a Holy Nights gathering with some good friends. We read and shared reflections on a Steiner lecture and generally discussed the significance of the Holy Nights. It was lovely to share this introspective time with others who are holding the Holy Nights with such consciousness.
I’ve heard it said that during the [...]

What a lovely holiday we had! We had some interesting philosophical conversations around the dinner table, initiated by my sister, who wanted to hear everyone’s take on the story of the birth of Jesus. She’s considering what aspects of the story to bring to her children and looking for what part of it lives most [...]

It seemed to David that he heard voices singing in the wind among the olive trees, as though the trees themselves were singing, voices that sang not to the ear but to the soul. ‘He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them.’
I am reading [...]

Alice asks me at least three times a day how many days until Christmas. I’m not sure if it’s a memory thing (Calvin would attribute it to the brick that the neighbor kid threw at her head when she was 2) or just wanting confirmation that I wasn’t just tricking her the first time I [...]

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Ooh, six more days!
Tonight we went to get our tree. I can never get my tree before school gets out, so we always head out the Saturday after school gets out and get it. This usually means that we get a GREAT deal, and this year was no different. We went to a small locally-owned [...]

The first snow of the year has begun to fall. It doesn’t look like it will stick around for very long, but it is so beautiful to watch fall. The photo is my deck at the beginning of the snowfall. Don’t you just love the leftover gardening supplies still out on the table and covered [...]

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