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Category Archives: Places We’ve Been

I remember driving through parts of Tennessee and Georgia and maybe West Virginia when I was a girl and seeing signs on barns that said “See Rock City”.  I don’t remember ever seeing Rock City, though!  On Tuesday afternoon, Steve & I took the girls to see “a true marvel of nature featuring massive ancient […]

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Last month, the girls and I headed up to Memphis to spend a week with Ruby, Emmie, my sister and brother-in-law.  It was an awesome, fun-filled week.  We did a few things we always do (the Children’s Museum and the zoo) but we also got to do a few things we’ve never done before. A […]

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My girls have a lot of similarities…they are both full of energy (all.the.time), the both love to tell a story, and I think they both equally love Nutella.  But, they definitely have their differences.  Abigail is more mathematically inclined than Gracie.  Gracie loves to read more than her little sister.  Abigail can play for hours […]

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  Tonight, Steve and the girls and I are going to watch The Miracle Worker.  You remember the movie, don’t you? The one about Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller with the climatic scene at the pump.  W*A*T*E*R. Gracie has an obsession with Helen Keller.  She read her first Helen Keller biography when she was in […]

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I love this girl. so much.  She is funny and goofy and stubborn and kind and sweet.  She is closest in age of all the cousins to Gracie and probably gets her more than anyone.  They fight light cats in a bathtub sometimes, but I’ve seen Emmie be kind to Gracie when Gracie needs it […]

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