The cool of fall has set in, and around here that means darker shorter days. Our outside activities are almost all completed. So we are indoors more now.

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven
(Ecclesiastes 3:1)

We don't normally watch a lot of videos, but between healing for myself and now a houseful of sick people (kiddos and mom-in-love) we

My mom-in-love (that's what I call my mother-in-law) goes around singing this one phrase several times a day.

"It's GREAT being a GIRL!"

I am messy. I am not a born-organized kind of person. Things around me are not dirty (I don't like dirty), but there is clutter. There are piles all around my desk and all over my husband's desk and on top of the file cabinet and on my bedside table. Things stack up on the table just inside the front door, on the buffet in the kitchen, on most any flat surface.

My sweetie and I don't mind this for the most part. It drives my mom-in-law and my daughter nuts, but we can always find what

Do you ever get that 'sentimental feeling'? In the last few months, I have definitely had some fond memories of good times past.

My daughter went away to church camp (min-camp) this summer. One day at camp, her cabin decided to dress up like they were 80's ladies. They were all 8 and 9 year olds being led by their (maybe) 18-yr-old cabi

I have pretty much already been posting at least daily (sometimes more than once a day) so I'm thinking that NaBloPoMo should be "business as usual" for me. That said, since it's still all new to me, I'm not sure the best way to keep up with the 'official' posts and I'm going to assume that as long as I post to my regular blog at least once a day every day in November that it will count. I'll link to my posts here, too.

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