I talked about Lucy working on her independence this summer and other “summer goal” ideas back HERE. (She has taken some new things in stride which is awesome to see.) So let’s keep going with that independence theme for a minute here. Leading up to the 4th I read a…
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the 4th of July
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Happy 4th of July! At church yesterday our bishop talked about choices. The ones that make us better, the ones that make us worse. Isn’t it so awesome we can choose so many things in life!? How we interact with people. How we choose to see them. What we choose…
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Some thoughts this 4th of July weekend… Books that make you think The girls and I got busy reading Where the Wind Leads last month. (I have read this book before…all about that back HERE…but in my frenzy to try to get my girls loving reading more, I picked this…
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I can’t let too much time slip away after the 4th to come here to write my gratitude for this imperfect country where I live…a country filled with people who are willing to work to progress and build bridges and right wrongs. We have much work to do, but we…
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thoughts late on a Monday afternoon…and the tradition of Coronado for the 4th
by ShawniI am sitting here basking on the memories of all the hoopla surrounding celebrating the 4th of July. That is a good holiday in my book. We sat in church last Sunday…in California…our first Sunday back since Africa…all crowded in the same pew with my sister-and-brother-in-law’s visitors from Denmark (who…