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raindrops keep falling on my head

last week was a long week. between philip beginning school, me wading through piles of papers to be graded just to get to my desk, beginning a new unit with my 8th graders, waiting anxiously for spring...

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ode to felicia

i sold the focus this week. felicia the focus is now happily settled one block away with one of our friends from small group. the money is nice. and we don't need the extra car. but i still feel like a...

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airless lungs, stretching tulips, and my favorite holiday

good morning, gentle readers,i have gotten into the nasty habit of going for 15-minute wogs a few times a week. actually, it's not a nasty habit. i think it's probably good for me, despite my inability...

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back for a bit

we're back from a 2 1/2 week road trip which included 4 days in missoula, 2ish days in sioux center, 7 days in branson, and the rest of the days in transit. i love road trips. i much prefer them to...

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i am a 6-year-old

one of al's pictures from somewhere in montana (probably). love that big midwestern sky.as i wrote on the family blog, we ordered a new camera (a nikon coolpix l120) that was supposed to arrive by...

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the ideal marriage

i have a bunch of thoughts, and i'm not sure i have the talent or patience to organize them. so here goes.last night i finished reading the brothers k. it took well over a month of pretty consistent...

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ten years later

i was 17, a senior in high school. i was in my car in the dordt parking lot after dutch class, waiting for andrew kroeze and dan de jong to get out of calculus so that we could head to unity for the...

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color trip

last weekend, philip & i took a color trip up towards baker. taking color trips is a van dyken tradition which i was glad to add to our traditions. it was a beautiful day, and while we didn't...

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couch time: my booklist

i've been on the couch all weekend. as in, i have not even brushed my teeth today (and it's 5:17 p.m.) ick. i have a cold, have used up 1 1/2 rolls of toilet paper (on my nose!), and have books...

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one little word

this morning, i said no.choir has been nuts lately. we're singing great music, but suddenly one of the songs we're singing (an opera) has turned into a huge stage production. i'm only worried because...

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new year.

much has happened since my last post. thanksgiving, christmas, and a pile of visitors and stress.let me say first that christmas was excellent. we flew to a snow-less iowa and spent 8 days immersed in...

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a little bit of peace

many changes since the last post. my new attitude toward the situation made the time with rod and vonnie and other family special and memorable. we said goodbye to grandpa on january 3, and...

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snow days

we are on snow day #4 here in whatcom county. my three-day weekend (thanks to mlk, jr. day) turned into a nine-day weekend.i'm not really complaining, except that this was supposed to be exam week, we...

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a smattering

a few things on my mind:1. money (always.) today i paid off all my student loans (yayyyy!!), and now i'm thinking of the next step. philip's loans. he has a lot more that we need to pay off, and i'm...

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the ides of march (well, almost)

sick again. not so fun. i feel like i should be getting to work on the end-of-the-year planning (since we're dangerously close to the fourth quarter. where did this year go??)it looks like we're...

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movin' on

it's official. we're moving. in three weeks. across town to a rented house with another couple. after several months of discussing co-housing and the savings it will afford and good challenges it will...

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one month

 Our bedroom Family roomThe small part of our backyardWe have now lived in our new place for a month...and it's never a dull moment around here. In fact, Philip just dashed past me to see the raccoon...

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mourning

two things have always been certain when i've returned to sioux center for a visit. first, that i'd be staying with mom and dad. second, that i'd go to covenant and get some sort of welcoming side...

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2012: A Year in Review

I refuse to begin this post by saying "It's been awhile", so I'm just going to dive in and post 1-2 pictures from each month of 2012.January Philip & I took the ferry to Friday Harbor to relax...

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a (non) announcement.

I am almost 30, and I am not a mother. Philip and I have been married for almost 4 years, and we are NOT PREGNANT.And I'm okay with that.I kinda wish the rest of the world would get over it. In the...

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a fall post

November is almost gone, but I have pictures from October to share!For our Harvest Halloween party, we dressed up as Little Fashion-Blind Riding Hood and The Big Plaid Wolf. I had to be on the lookout...

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all things new

I've been thinking lately about how our lives are changing this year:Housing: We bought our first house and got the keys one month ago today. We said goodbye to living with dear friends and are moving...

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day 1: a different take

 First day of school!Today I began my 8th first day of school as a teacher. At this point in my career, first days are slightly less nerve-wracking than they were when I first started out...but only...

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36 weeks! (Yay! And...eek!)

36 weeks tomorrow. That means we should really be installing the carseat this weekend and maybe have a little bit more of our birth plan completed. And while I've been thinking a lot about labor and...

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waiting.

4 days until our due date. I'm on maternity leave, and this morning I'm recovering from a weird 4-hour flu bug I had during the night. Lying on the couch, drinking oj and eating toast, watching movies...

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