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I’m Going Under – by Sarah

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I’m not sure about this whole swimming thing. It turns out they want you to put your head under.

Under the water.

All the way.

I tried to tell them, “No, thank you, I’m fine with my face out of the water,” but they kept insisting it was swim class and I had to learn how to swim. Who knew swimming involved getting your head wet.

Look what I did today!!

plug your nose!

I have a GREAT swim teacher and she told me I could “Do It!” and so I went under.

Yep, all the way.

Twice.

where's Sarah?

This isn’t too hard. Bring it on!

a little water logged

Sarah
Project 366 – Day 23

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Sisters

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Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters. In all kinds of weather, we stick together, the same in rain or snow.

Name the movie and win a chocolate prize.

Advent calendars

Sarah and Rachel hold their (now empty-sob) Advent calendars.

sweet girlsopening presents

Sarah and Rachel share a bedroom. They are six and a half years apart. They share a love for all things beautiful, collectible, and “girly.” They fight over whose turn and responsibility it is to clean the bedroom, over ownership of toys, over what movie to watch or how to spend the day. But through it all they love deeply and fiercely. They adore playing together and every night you can find them talking and sharing thoughts.

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega

Kathy
Project 365- Day 364 (the end is in sight)

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I Can Write My Name

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Well, almost.

sarah and the gel paint
Sarah tries out her new Gel Paint.

Project 365 is coming to an end. Wednesday is Day 339. It’s been a long year of many pictures. No wonder I’m having trouble writing our family Christmas newsletter, I’ve already said everything on the blog.

I never thought I could really take a picture every day for an entire year. I guess I should have been more worried about taking only a SINGLE photo each day. :) Maybe the second edition of Project 365 should be: Take a meaningful picture every day. Hmmm.

What do you think?

  • Another round of Project 365 – don’t make it specific, just capture one image each day
  • Scrap the whole thing. Enough is enough, how many pictures of cute kids do we really need?
  • Change the whole focus – give each day a theme.
  • Less rambling/babbling on the blog, more pictures.

Other thoughts…

Kathy

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Three Princesses and the Pea

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In the original story, there was one princess, up to 20 mattresses, and a single pea. In our little tale, there are three princesses, one mattress and nary a legume in sight. We do have lots of blankets, books, and giggles.

here they are

Sarah and the girls snuggle in for bedtime. Notice Tarah’s smile.

Rachel was invited to a birthday sleepover this weekend. We were offered Adam (the birthday girl’s brother) in exchange for Rachel. I figured that was a good beginning and so I bargained (I’m quite the savvy shopper) for the youngest sister of the birthday girl as well. Now we were starting to get some where. A phone call or two later and I had managed to snag another 5 year old. In the end, the older sisters all went off to the birthday party and the younger girls came here.

Rachel, having learned from prior Princess Parties, tucked the ladder to her top bunk in my closet. Hmmm. I wonder if she really thinks that will stop 3 persistent princesses, one of whom is already an accomplished gymnast. We’ll see.

giggles galore

Sarah giggles, Elise tries to look serious and Tarah continues to smile pretty.

Daniel, David and Adam are happily (and quietly) settled in their cozy den of pillows and sleeping bags. The girls, on the other hand, have been calling for the past 30 minutes, claiming to be scared. Of spiders.

“The bwack and gwey ones are da worse,” one of the royal members informed me as I tried to scoot her to the other edge of the bed. “I can’t go over dere, spiders might come up otta the hole.”

How can you argue with that logic. I told her to stuff a blanket up against the wall, prayed with them, and turned up the Donut Man cd as I sprinted out into the hall. They were nicely settled in until one of them decided to go to the bathroom. Sure enough, all three girls decided to use the facilities together.

It’s going to be a long night and an early morning. :)

we're silly

Throughout it all, Tarah maintains her perfect, picture ready, smile.

Now to see that they actually go to sleep. Then I can work on finding an appropriate collection of princes.

Kathy
Project 365 – Day 264

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