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  • Halloween

    Oh these silly girls. And silly mama; I just can’t help myself sometimes. Halloween is one of those times! I decided at the last minute (10 o’clock the night before) that Bennet needed a coat to complete her gnome costume (and make it a bit different from my god daughter’s, since I was recycling most of the outfit). And her hat turned out a little pope-esque. Oops. I blame it on the fact that I had no pattern and was knitting under the table at jury duty without looking (because apparently knitting needles are banned there.…

  • Fall at the Oregon Coast

    My dad lives in the desert in the winter, and before he left this year he decided he wanted to go to the coast. Lucky for the girls and I he decided we should come on his impromptu day trip… OK! First we went to a fantastic restaurant, on the “banks” of the world’s shortest river: Kyllo’s. Yummy, yummy, yummy. And the girls loved sitting looking right over to the beach. Bennet wasn’t 100% sure about the beach. Check out these adorable mini boots Tuesday fished out of a bin at the used kids store. I…

  • Wait, was that an electric car?

    So this weekend I got an electric car. But that’s not what this story is about. This evening as I was all set to do my last big batch of canning (really, truly, I mean it this time!) Bj was being helpful and took a basket of rags down to the basement to put with the dirty clothes and things. I heard him groan and he told me the washer had over flowed. I came downstairs and there was an inch of water around that area, and it had spread under the dividing wall and into…

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