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Simple Daily Elegance: February 2013
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Thursday, February 14, 2013. The plan was to have a wonderful morning full of Valentine themed activities, baking and even a service project, following which I would blog about Child #3's birthday - an event complete with giant color coordinated hanging tissue poms and cupcakes frosted to look like two toned roses. I felt the way discouraged feels on it's rough days. I burst into tears. More perfect&#...
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Simple Daily Elegance: January 2013
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Friday, January 18, 2013. Of Mites and Motes. Want to parent the way the Lord would, and for a moment you seriously consider giving a 40 year in the wilderness time out and then you realize that you have only been awake for 20 minutes and you have nothing left, the inner reserves are totally depleted. It was one of those. Ironically just the night before, I was thinking of all the things I. Then the p...
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Simple Daily Elegance: April 2013
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Thursday, April 4, 2013. A few nights ago I was making a mushroom sauce. I was sniffing my bottles of cooking wine trying to figure out which one I should put in the sauce. In comes my eldest son. Mom, what are you smelling? Cooking wine" (Brief explanation of how we boil all the alcohol off). Wait," he says "So you're hiding in the kitchen drinking cooking wine? Oh, your CORN-ography video.". No, it'...
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Simple Daily Elegance: The Be in Beautiful
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Monday, September 9, 2013. The Be in Beautiful. I teach ballet to adorable four, five and six year olds and every single one of them has moments when they feel beautiful. They all get the same look in their eyes, tuck their chin in the same way and adopt stylized princess-like movements. I only see them for an hour a week and I see every one of them feel beautiful. Beautiful, they feel like they are.
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Simple Daily Elegance: February 2014
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Tuesday, February 11, 2014. Humans. We need a whole lot of slack don't we? I hate waiting. Rage flares inside me like dragon fire. I am embarrassed to admit that. I have to breathe deeply and occasionally tap dance in the check-out line to stay calm. YOU GET TO THE COUNTER. THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE (he was the only one there) WHO NEED TO GET GOING. YOU ARE BEING SO RUDE! Some people are so greedy.".
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Simple Daily Elegance: July 2013
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Tuesday, July 16, 2013. The world tells me I am overweight, mediocre, out of style, an average housekeeper, middle class, that I am forever wearing the wrong jeans, that I am not living up to my potential because I choose to stay home and raise my kids, that I am ordinary, middle-of-the road smart, and not nearly as crafty or motivated as . well anyone on Pinterest. Here's what I tell the world:.
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Simple Daily Elegance: December 2012
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Thursday, December 6, 2012. This is one of my favorite paintings. It is Spanish Dancer by Pino. I once saw the original. It was huge and it moved me. Just wanted to share. Monday, December 3, 2012. From my Little Basil Blossoms blog. It is exactly how I am feeling again today.). In this world there are scientists, dentists, fascists, Bunburyists, and a host of "ists". At once, all. The time and all.
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Simple Daily Elegance: Pledges
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Monday, November 18, 2013. Before we start our schoolwork, we always say the Pledge of Allegiance and our Boster Pledge. The Boster pledge is:. The other day, one of my kids got it a little mixed up. With all the confidence in the world they said:. Oh, how true that is! November 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM. I LOVE your Boster Pledge! November 18, 2013 at 10:19 PM. That pledge is super cool!
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Simple Daily Elegance: October 2012
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Like drinking herbal tea in a yellow kitchen surrounded by friends, that is what I want this blog to be. Tuesday, October 30, 2012. The state of my house does not define me. The state of my house does Not define me. The state of my house does NOT define me. The state of my house says a lot about the number of children I have and the kind of day I had, but please, oh please do not say the squalor that surrounds me is an extension of me. Am I alone in this? But you know what? The fact that I am blogging in...