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Missing Mother’s Day

May 15, 2010Mary Jo6 Comments on Missing Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day weekend was prefaced by a flood. I’ve written a little about that but have yet to tell of some of the personal experiences associated with it. That Saturday Kris and I were completely oblivious to the horror that was going on around us. W…

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Everyday Life • Family • Limerick Friday

Century Flood

May 8, 2010May 13, 2020Mary Jo4 Comments on Century Flood

There once was a town on the riverWhose heart was that of a giverWhen the water would riseThat heart swelled in sizeAnd everyone chose to deliverIt’s not a perfect sentiment but it isn’t Friday either.I’m so proud of our town, of our Volu…

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Arden Court • Church • Everyday Life • Family • Ivan • Sunday School

Remember

April 25, 2010Mary Jo7 Comments on Remember

Remember when I said, “He’s showing me the clarity I can achieve through discipline and even sacrifice.” Well I am also finding out that the opposite is also true. I taught Sunday school this morning. I didn’t have that clarity. But I did have a…

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Church • Family • Ivan • Limerick Friday

Uncomfortable

April 23, 2010July 2, 2021Mary Jo1 Comment on Uncomfortable

A stout little man named Purdue,
had a problem it seemed with his shoe.
A pebble or bean,
something small and unseen,
found a hole and had somehow got through.

I’m looking forward to what comes today. The sun is out and things are looking so pret…

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Everyday Life • Family • Mary Mary Stationery • Sewing

Frog Prints

April 22, 2010Mary Jo3 Comments on Frog Prints

Here’s what my sewing machine has been busy at yesterday and today:I have to clean up now, I’m having company tomorrow and I have fabric all over my dining room table.

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Everyday Life • Family

Seems Like Simple

April 21, 2010July 2, 2021Mary Jo3 Comments on Seems Like Simple

I am adoring the little reminders I get lately that life isn’t about how much you can fit in, check off or immortalize in trophies and ribbons. I am realizing my own desires are being met much more satisfactorily than I would have imagined at my pace an…

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Arden Court • Aron • Everyday Life • Family • Ivan • Mary Mary Stationery • Sewing

Making

April 21, 2010July 2, 2021Mary Jo10 Comments on Making

I’ve been making and making all day today. I wish I had more to show for it. Sometimes though, difficult and time consuming things come in small packages. So here’s what I have been up to…I started some more of the mini Mary Jane shoes quite…

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Arden Court • Aron • Church • Everyday Life • Family • Ivan • Owen

A is for Allergy

April 15, 2010Mary Jo7 Comments on A is for Allergy

We have been dealing with Allergies this week. I am ill equipped in terms of medication or anything of that nature, but we have been praying a lot and the boys are showing great attitudes despite their discomfort.Owen was the first to show symptoms.…

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Family • Limerick Friday

Good Friday, and Happy Birthday

April 2, 2010May 20, 2020Mary Jo7 Comments on Good Friday, and Happy Birthday

In college young Christopher CondryFound his clothes in a bit of a quandary.Not one sock was a pairnot one thing fit to wearnow he’ll pay for his mom to do laundry.

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Arden Court • Aron • Church • Everyday Life • Family • House • Limerick Friday • Marriage • Sunday School • Women's Ministry

Short Tales

March 26, 2010July 7, 2020Mary Jo4 Comments on Short Tales

Have you heard of dear Annabelle Flynn,
And the beautiful yarns she can spin?
It’s not on a spindle,
No indeed, it’s the Kindle,
Where her tales are quite short, but not thin.

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