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happy 7th birthday
Olivia's birthday celebrations started at school on Friday. Her teacher sent me this photo - 7 things for 7 year olds! This is what the birthday girl's classmates love about her. ❤ She also had a surprise lunch date at school! Olivia has only had one birthday
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peanut butter
Emma started following this local place's YouTube channel over a year ago, and since then has been asking for a snake. Surprisingly she knows a lot about them - all the different kinds, what they eat, how to set up their habitat. I've been against it.
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throwback thursday (december 1, 2021)
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throwback thursday (november 24, 2021)
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11 baskets
Another weekend... another basketball game. This was her fifth game. In the first 4 games she maybe scored 1 or 2 baskets. This game I stopped counting at 8. Emma said she made 11.
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throwback thursday (november 17, 2021)
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snow
It's not even Thanksgiving yet and we already have a good amount of snow on the ground. Emma keeps singing "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...." and Olivia will only go outside with her umbrella.
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throwback thursday (november 10, 2021)
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moa
Olivia is pretty terrified of shots. I told her if I didn't have to pin her down for her annual flu shot this time she could pick what we did for the rest of the day. Of course she picked Mall of America. Usually when the girls don&
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candle fail
Well... that was a big fat fail. Emma and I missed a critical step in the candle making process. Ope. We were able to redo that step and still get half a candle out of it. She's pretty happy with the candle she did get, and can'
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beeswax candles
Last weekend Braden brought home 10 frames of honey, so this week I got all the honey into bottles. There is always so much honeycomb and beeswax left over that we've talked about making candles with it for a long time. I just never wanted to deal with