• Explore OK {Rose Hill School}

    Recently my older two boys and I visited Rose Hill School with our homeschool group (Classical Conversations). Built in 1895, the one room school house was moved to the Cherokee Strip Museum in 1971. Since 1988 it has welcomed thousands of students each year to…

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  • living in a snowglobe

    Yesterday felt like we lived inside a snowglobe. The sky dumped big, white snowflakes for most of the day. As much as I don’t like the cold, even I can admit how incredibly beautiful a day like yesterday was. As the snow began falling heavily…

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  • dumpling making & Chinese New Year

    I do not typically take all my kids grocery shopping with me.  I am so much faster by myself or with just a couple of them. Last week we celebrated Chinese New Year. I knew the kids would love roaming the aisles of the asian/international…

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  • finding their sweet spot

    I like animals, but I wouldn’t say I am especially drawn to them. I was given the gift of mothering a young man that lives and breathes all things nature and animal. He dreams about common animals and exotic ones. He knows a million random…

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  • Vaseline on my lens

    I don’t remember where I read this idea, but it has floated in the back of my mind as something I wanted to try. Vaseline on a camera lens…well, more like on plastic wrap covering the lens. I would not recommend putting vaseline on your…

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