http://www.halftiedribbons.com the simple pleasures Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:14:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en blueberry picking at Hatcher's Pass... leads to staying up late when you're really tired to put up blueberries: which leads to the best husband in the world googling "homemade blueberry muffins" and getting up with the littlest girl to make them and delivering breakfast in bed... how wonderful! i can't even describe to ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/09/01/homemade-yummy-fresh-blueberry-goodness/ it's official---we have entered the wide world of full-blown school going. is she not the most adorable girl you've ever seen? i get teary eyed just looking at her pictures, which i've done numerous times each day. dropping abby off for her first day of kindergarten was such a huge milestone. ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/08/26/official-kindergartner/ ok, so i promised more of my book review. the book is Different Children, Different Needs by Charles F. Boyd.  it's been a week or two since i finished it so the details are a little foggy, but some of it stuck. i think what impressed me most about this ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/08/19/different-children-different-needs-take-ii/ the other day i heard mike say, "quit trying to toot on me so i can brush your teeth!" then this morning i heard him say, "please don't hug roni's bo bo (butt at our house)!" and lastly.... today i went to a meeting at church about MOPS. abby went with me. ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/08/16/more-home-talk/ because my baby is starting school, in approximately 10 days, 15 hours, and 23 minutes. um, not sure how this almost 6 years has gone so quickly. seems like we were just bringing her scrawny-little-wrinkled-up-too-cold-6 pound self home from the hospital. and cranking the heat up to 75 in arkansas ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/08/14/i-must-have-blinked/ just so you know, i lay awake in bed some nights and go over and over what i could write, say, or blog. it sounds so great in my head, coming out in nice, coherent, meaningful sentences. this is when i talk to people, talk to God, play out conversations ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/08/06/different-children-different-needs/ this weekend we went down to the kenai penninsula clam digging. it was incredible. i think i like the drive down there better than the drive up to denali. it's just indescribable. first you go through anchorage and then around the turnagin arm, where the view is the ocean. there's ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/08/04/clam-digging/ we're going clam digging down on the Kenai Peninsula this weekend and they don't allow dogs where we're staying. . . .just after i'd gotten off the phone booking roni a stay in the neon flashing sign type establishment ($12 a day) i received this email from mike: I called ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/07/31/doggie-day-camp/ thought i would share some of the online stuff i've been interested in lately: i thought this was a cute idea. a swim coverup made from a terry towel. there's a resurgence of embroidery and all sorts of cute stuff. these designs i liked. i am loving reading this lady's blog. she just ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/07/29/link-up/ ok. so it apparently wasn't food poisoning. mike has gotten the bug, too. i pity him, i really do. i prayed for him to not "get it". plus the 3 moms and 7 kids i was with at various times ALL day friday. oh well. who knew? in other news: lilly ... http://www.halftiedribbons.com/blog/2008/07/29/apparently/