Yesterday – July 12, 2019

Our van is toast. It is such a sad fact. This Honda Odessey is the best car Duncan and I have ever had. It gets…got great gas mileage, has tons of storage space, and has gone the distance, 226,217 miles to be exact. To make a long story short, we over heated BIG TIME, 2 […]

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Today – July 13, 2019

Today has been a good one: Read and pondered The Word of God. Did some very brief exercises. Made pancakes. Ate 4! Painted the ceiling in my bedroom. Curt (13) got home from Geronimo Scout Camp! I missed him! Unfortunately he caught the flu somehow and was vomiting through the night his last night at

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Traveling with Kids

Dunc and I have gone all over the place with our kids, mostly via camping because it is more affordable. In fact most of them have been to 49 of the 50 states (we still need to visit North Dakota), including many state and national parks. You have GOT to try out the Jr. Ranger

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Raising Resilient Children

“Depression is now the single leading cause of disability globally” (World Health Organization). Susan David shares articulate insight in her excellent talk on Emotional Agility. How do we teach our kids that discomfort is okay? They need this resilience to live in a complicated world. Lessons of Resilience from Childhood —Lyle J. Burrup When I was

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Today – July 10, 2019

Today I decided to clean out my inbox instead of work on painting our master bathroom. Here is what it looks like after 2 days of primer: As you can see the walls are blotchy. I don’t want to cover brown paint ever again. I AM glad I am taking the time to prime the

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Emotional Agility

I am learning about emotion and mind management.  Emotions are energy (actual vibrations from our minds) that we can control through our thoughts. “When we allow a thought [true or not/good or not], an image, or a belief/idea into our subconscious minds, the degree to which we amplify the thought or belief in our imaginations, plus

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