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Anna on January 9th, 2009 | Tags:
boys,
fun
A little known fact about the boys is that they have created their own language, appropriately called, “Jaden and Jonah language”. Often times as I walk through their play area I will overhear it. At first I thought that they were just talking in jibberish to each other… but no! They actually understand each other. [...]
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Anna on November 1st, 2008 | Tags:
art,
boys,
family,
fun
We had such a great Halloween this year. Jaden dressed up as a bunch of spilled spaghetti and meatballs and Jonah dressed up as a cool cowboy. Around 4pm, we headed down to the Gresham Town Center and let the boys trick or treat from the local businesses there. Then we went out to dinner [...]
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Anna on October 19th, 2008 | Tags:
boys,
friends,
fun,
husband
Scott has been teaching the boys how to manage money over the past year. They each opened up a kid’s bank account. Every week, they earn a dollar and once per month Scott sits down with them and they divide up their wages. They give some to the church, some to the poor, some to [...]
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Anna on September 14th, 2008 | Tags:
family,
fun
One of the many things that I love about schooling the boys at home is that we can take a vacation whenever we want - even if it’s only 2 weeks after school starts!! And that’s just what we did this past week. My in-laws flew in from Texas and we all headed over to [...]
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Anna on September 5th, 2008 | Tags:
family,
fun,
soccer
A couple of weeks ago, we signed up to receive our local newspaper, The Oregonian. We mainly use the paper for making fires in our woodstove. Anyhow, the guy who sold us the subscription gave us 4 free tickets to see the Portland Timbers - soccer!! The boys weren’t too thrilled about going because they [...]
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