tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74031168664049501692024-03-12T23:33:54.361-07:00Blogging in the Ohio 12thohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.comBlogger286125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-53609969162086037122012-10-10T19:36:00.000-07:002012-10-10T19:36:40.873-07:00Columbus DayWhat a great day we had with PD being home on a Monday. He has been working late a lot and we have both been under a lot of stress lately with various pressures in our lives. But today we set it all aside to sleep in a bit, make a big breakfast, go for a hike and then while PD made dinner on the grill for us, I did a little Columbus Day craft with the girls. It was cold but sunny and annoying pressures aside, we are truly blessed. Before the adults even woke up, PK2 made this out of Playmobiles and construction paper.<br />
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After breakfast I would have loved to take the opportunity to send the girls out with PD while I did some shopping or deep cleaning, but I fought that temptation and joined them for a lovely hike.<br />
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Two deer ran right across our path, but I do not have a picture of that because it happened so fast. We saw a lot of birds. We saw a whole tree full of bluebirds. PK1 says this is a mockingbird, can anyone verify that? <br />
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And here is our craft:<br />
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Before you get too impressed, remember when PD and I built this cardboard Santa Maria? That was 2010...an election year! How did we manage that? <br />
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<br />ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-90839493395550594552012-10-08T19:28:00.001-07:002012-10-08T19:28:27.300-07:00Skyping with RichieSo far, this is the closest I have gotten to moonching on my precious new nephew. Just a couple more weeks and I will meet him for real!<br />
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<br />ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-5710878106332859712012-10-05T20:08:00.000-07:002012-10-05T20:08:01.985-07:00In September....We took out these trees in front of our house:<br />
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I was in charge of a GEMS field trip to a glass blowing studio:<br />
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We met Paul Ryan:<br />
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The girls played Tundra Buggy:<br />
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The ice maker broke during the night, flooded the kitchen and ruined the kitchen floor:<br />
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<br />ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-26800305853692938432012-08-26T20:08:00.000-07:002012-09-29T18:13:40.860-07:00Born to be Wild<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We were so close to several giraffes.<br />
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PK1 is kind of into swans right now. She says, "take my picture with the swan mommy"<br />
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Thank you Gram and Papa! That was Wild!<br />
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<br />ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-19752812026203666352012-08-24T18:43:00.000-07:002012-09-29T18:43:38.679-07:00Up, Up and Away<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We took the girls to a hot air balloon festival. It was really beautiful.<br />
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<br />ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-32490323043833675312012-07-13T20:43:00.001-07:002012-07-13T20:43:08.798-07:00Friday Funnies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We took PD out for dinner to a fancy restaurant for his birthday. We ate outside with a view of downtown and of these fountains.<br />
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I gave him this commemorative decanter of one of the former governors of our state. We kind of have an inside joke about this governor, but no one else would get it of course. I took pictures of everyone's food because it was so pretty.<br />
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I ordered this bacon wrapped shrimp.<br />
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PK1 is my girl who likes all different foods just like me. She ordered popcorn shrimp and it came in a cute Chinese takeout box!<br />
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And desserts! Can you see PD's cake in the background? My dessert was banana pudding in a jar.<br />
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And we watched. I only included this picture to prove I was there.ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-31961030711891309432012-06-20T18:51:00.000-07:002012-09-03T17:15:21.306-07:00The Oriental Institute<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When we were in Chicago, we went to the University of Chicago to tour the Oriental Institute. It was a wonderful experience. It was like a visual tour of all we studied in our history curriculum this year! Our focus this year had been Ancient history with an in depth look at the Old Testament. We studied how the Israelites and the prophets fit into the greater global picture with the Egyptians, Assyrians and Sumerians.<br />
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We accidentally went on graduation day, which made it a little crowded, but scored us free parking. It was fun to see all the graduates in their caps and gowns. And you know I am always looking for <a href="http://ohio12.blogspot.com/2011/09/joni-at-cedarville.html">opportunities to glamorize and promote college life</a>!<br />
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Some things at the museum were actual relics and some were replicas. This is a replica of the Steele Code of Hamurabi. The actual one is in the Lourve.<br />
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Another supplementary thing we used a lot this year was the art videos available from Kahn Academy. Here is the lesson on the Stele Code of Hammurabi. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here is Sargon. Those guys really liked to put their head on the body of an animal!</span><br />
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We later learned another significant thing about this museum. About 40 years ago, when he was in seminary, Grandad used to drive buses downtown Chicago. When he was on a break he would come to this museum to do research for a big paper he wrote!ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-17066964654378416632012-06-18T20:10:00.000-07:002012-08-26T20:14:34.314-07:00Chicago Visit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">What a fun visit we had with the Chicago cousins! We absolutely packed this visit with activities. These are some lucky kids! It started off with swimming in Lake Michigan.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This is just a cute picture of the girls on campus at University of Chicago. I will explain later why we were there! It is never too early to start college visits...especially when your fourth graders are doing Algebra! (just kidding, no Doogie Housers here)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The last night we went to Navy Pier after dinner. The kids ran in this fountain.</span><br />
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Last October, when I was in Chicago with my sister, Ohio made national news. Here is the story.<br />
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PD was back home pulling all-nighters dealing with this fiasco. Little did we know that the legislation that resulted from this would be a huge project he would work on for the next nine months. Finally last week everyone was able to come to agreement and a new bill was signed limiting and regulating the ownership of dangerous wild animals in Ohio.<br />
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One day, a few months ago the girls and I took PD's car to run some errands because he had parked me in. PK1 started reading from a giant stack of papers she found in the back seat, "Lemurs, snow leaords, cape buffalos, komodo dragons, cheetahs, African wild dogs, cougars (also known as pumas)...." We quickly realized it was daddy's working list of possible dangerous wild animals to be banned. We lead weird lives.ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-72561710434305067652012-06-15T17:57:00.000-07:002012-06-15T17:57:50.992-07:00Friday Funnies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-36461286762046407542012-06-04T18:14:00.002-07:002012-06-04T21:38:13.221-07:00A Blast from the Past<span style="text-align: left;">I think I mentioned that PD and I were cleaning out the basement. We are going through EVERYTHING. I had probably 10 boxes of stuff I had kept from when I was a kid. Everything from a doll I loved to the most important papers I wrote in college. I made myself get rid of 90% of it, but I took a few pictures of some pretty funny stuff. Here are the tickets and pictures from the Amy Grant concert I went to in 5th grade. I still remember that night and the pinstripe jeans I wore. It would have been about 1985. It was "like totally awesome!"</span><br />
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My mom and sisters and I have a joke about these jean pocket cards my Nana would always send us. For years, we all got the jean pocket card. I always thought it was the exact same one, but now that I pull them out, I realize there are slight variations.</div>
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I lettered in high school in .....wait for it.....theater. Just in case you thought I was only a dork as an adult. I was also on the Prom court, but only because a bunch of theater people nominated me. I don't watch Glee, but I think it was kind of like that.</div>
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These will come in super handy some day. </div>
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As will the birth certificate for my Cabbage Patch doll. I also kept the doll.</div>
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This is kind of cool. Rich Mullins was from my home town. I went to a few youth conferences where he performed before he became famous. I remember one time just a few of us were around a piano eating a sack lunch and he was just playing songs that he was working on.</div>
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When I was a kid we were visiting my grandparents in Florida. We went to this really dumb show called Waltzing Waters. For years after we would say, "Remember Waltzing Waters?"</div>
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I took advantage of some nice natural light when we were out to dinner one night and snapped a few pictures of my darling girls. They could both use a hair cut, but I love all the different expressions that are so unique to each of them.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend with absolutely no obligations. Three whole days with PD home to just have fun and chill out. It turned out to be blazing hot, but we went ahead with a lot of our favorite activities. We went to Creekside twice!</span><br />
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My Clematis has so many blooms this year. I just love perrinials. You plant them once and then God does a little miracle and they come up bigger and better every year. I work on my perrenial beds every year and I think I have finally got them how I want them. We have only been in the house ten years!<br />
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There may have been some early spring hiking:<br />
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Here is proof that if you don't let your kids watch TV, they will go outside and do crazy creative stuff. The girls are always coming up with something like this contest to see who could build the highest tower out of garage toys.<br />
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The girls were very sick with the flu...then as soon as they got better, I got it. They were such champs though...keeping themselves alive while I fought off my fever. I would just crawl out of bed long enough to pull some food out of the fridge three times a day and then crawl back to bed. Before he left for work, PD bought us a big vat of soup and it is all we ate for 72 hours.<br />
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The girls were also in a railroad themed program at the nursing home. I may have some video to follow for that.<br />
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We couldn't let PK2's birthday pass without having our best friends over. We have celebrated with them for every birthday they have ever had. The big girls were born 6 weeks apart and the younger ones were born 4 weeks apart. Of course they had to try out the new Wii.<br />
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And open some presents.<br />
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Several months ago I started telling PK2 that she was having a family-only birthday party. We usually do family and friends together, or two separate parties, but I was burnt out on all of that. It worked out great because she has Cinncinati Cousin who is just her age and they get along great. Oh my goodness, it was so much better than having a bunch of <strike>rowdy obnoxious </strike>energetic kids running around.<br />
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GEMS celebrated Pentecost this week. Here is a little video I shot during the lesson. The mom that lead it did such a nice job.<br />
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GEMS went to the beautiful <a href="http://www.fpconservatory.org/">Franklin Park Conservatory</a> for a tour of the gardens and a lesson about butterflies. <br />
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These are the recurring nightmares I have been having most of my life. They are listed in no particular order. Feel free to leave a comment telling me yours.<br />
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1. I am back in college and it is finals week. I realize I am signed up for a class that I have not attended all semester. When I explain the situation to "the office" they tell me there is nothing that can be done and that I should take the final and see what happens.<br />
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4. My teeth itch and hurt and then I taste blood and reach up and realize my teeth are falling out. I have googled this one and it is a classic dream to have if you are a control freak and feel out of control. Well, that explains it.ohio12http://www.blogger.com/profile/08761773002105727568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7403116866404950169.post-72783298699473331862012-04-09T18:20:00.000-07:002012-04-27T18:20:38.164-07:00Easter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dyeing Easter eggs. So easy and stress free now that my girls are almost 7 and 9. Although I messed up and didn't so much hard boil my eggs as poach them. @#easterfail That didn't ruin the dyeing, just the breakfast the next morning.<br />
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We celebrated Easter at our house with our good friends from church this year. Look how cute these kids are.<br />
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