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I Feel Like Summer

Bymichelle April 27, 2011July 27, 2022

I feel like summer!  Do you? (sitting on the front porch, day 108) (day 111) (day 112) (played out, day 113) Is it possible?  Could I really be caught up…

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cheap stuff | family | lensbaby | parenting | photography | ttv photo

Walks Around the City

Bymichelle April 27, 2011July 27, 2022

That title conjures up images of a bustling, downtown scene, alive with car horns, traffic, people milling around, and street performers.  But, no, it’s not a real city, just my…

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family | parenting | photography | ttv photo

Not Too Old for an Easter Basket

Bymichelle April 26, 2011July 27, 2022

After church we gathered for gumbo at Grandmommy and Papaw’s.  As usual, my son ate too much, groans, then slips out of his chair to lay on the floor by…

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family | homemaking | parenting | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

Dragon Pictures

Bymichelle April 17, 2011July 27, 2022

Our refrigerator used to be covered with drawings of cats.  The last few years it’s been all dragons and knights and such.  For now anyway.  I’ve had someone’s drawings on…

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camping | family | photography | travel

Looking for Magic Hour

Bymichelle March 23, 2011July 27, 2022

I know that I’ve found it when I don’t want to do a thing to alter the image. “Twice each day the cool, blue light of night interacts with warm…

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family | homemaking | parenting | photography | thinking out loud

A Lifetime of Love

Bymichelle March 19, 2011July 27, 2022

I love these hands that have held us, taught us, fed us, loved us, and folded in prayer over us.   Thank you Grandmommy and Papaw for showing me what…

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animals | family | photography | thinking out loud

Black and White Daily Life

Bymichelle February 22, 2011July 27, 2022

These have been hanging around in my camera.  Thought I’d share.  (day 47) (day 51)

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bicycle | craft | family | homemaking | photography | polaroid

Ain’t We Got Fun

Bymichelle February 19, 2011July 27, 2022

In case you’re bored and desperately in need of ideas for something inexpensive and fun to do with your family: There’s always a bike ride to DQ for some space-age,…

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Christianity | family | thinking out loud

And Behind This Door…

Bymichelle January 20, 2011July 27, 2022

These doorknobs are from my grandparents pre-hurricane house, the one they lived in for more than 50 years.  That’s the one that smelled of Carter Hall tobacco and comfort food….

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“And whatever you do, do it heartily…

Bymichelle January 10, 2011July 27, 2022

… as to the Lord, and not men”  Colossians 3: 23 This is one my kids hear a lot- before school,  or when I check up on their half- done…

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