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Norah's memorizing this for a few events coming up. I had never read it or if I had, I never thought about the words. Now I get choked up at least once before it's over. To have been there...
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The original sentence was about a boy who broke his leg, but Norah changed it. Good one, Norah.

March 2015

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I've been too busy to blog much, but here's a quick collage of photos and events from March.  It has come and gone like a lion. On one particularly warm day early this month, we did get to play outside for a few hours in the puddles and streams the melting snow made. The girls built snow castles in the driveway.   Our homeschool is intensifying during this season, especially our work in Essentials, the English grammar and writing program for Classical Conversations.  We are striving along and all the girls are making steady progress. I am still teaching group fitness classes part time throughout the week.  Though it would certainly be easier not to work in addition to my other responsibilities, I like earning money and the exercise is proving to be a stress reliever. My husband is still recovering from having foot surgery at the end of April. But, not to be outdone, our oldest daughter Norah tripped while playing with a group of kids, caught hersel

How to Keep Track of Medication

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We've been dealing with so many health issues lately. Tooth aches, fevers, surgeries, injuries- all within the month! I've needed to track medication doses, but I found that writing information on sticky notes wasn't working well enough. The paper would get wet or soiled somehow. It could be swept off the counter and get lost. Or it was too hard to read because the print was too small. So I came up with a nicer way of tracking our medication doses. I put a piece of simple, black lined paper inside a long, narrow frame. I write on the glass with a dry erase marker. I can lay the frame flat on the counter or table and it works like any other list, only this list is easier to read, it's heavy enough to stay put, and it's more waterproof. Better still, I can even sit the frame upright so that the list can be seen from across the room. This was especially convenient when my husband had to lie flat in bed after his recent foot surgery.  I would wr
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 Stripes on stripes
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I Have My Own Purposes for Your Strength

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Several weeks ago, I was hoping to get one or more new fitness classes on the schedule at the gym where I have been subbing. But I wasn't given a class. I understood the practical reasons why I didn't get the classes. I am still a novice in their programs, there are much more experienced teachers in line ahead of me, and the gym has no real need for a new class on the schedule. Nevertheless, I wrestled disappointment for days.  It seemed to me that I had been training for nothing. I took my disappointments to God in prayer, because that's usually what I do with disappointments.  I had questions for God, because I thought He was leading me to do all the training, but nothing was coming of it, apparently. As I lay on my bed thinking and talking to my husband about the situation one morning, when there as a break in our conversation, I heard the Lord say, "I have my own purposes for your strength." Though I did not hear the words out loud, they came into