Casual Get-Togethers – What’s Your Take?

So, yesterday’s post inspired a comment that inspired some questions in my mind, and I thought I would share with you!  I’d love to hear some of your thoughts on casual get-togethers with friends. How often do you have friends/neighbors over to your house? Do you always do dinner . . . or just dessert [...]

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Fellowship

Our plans for Saturday night got undone. So we made new, impromptu ones. We called some friends who like to play games and asked them if they were busy.  They weren’t, but neither family had eaten dinner.  An hour later, ten of us were gathered around our dining room table, eating, talking, laughing!  When dinner [...]

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Soarin’

This weekend we did a bunch of this: So we could see a bunch of these: So cool! It’s apparently a slow year, so we only saw 30 bald eagles – was enough for us!  We got to see young eagles, adult eagles, and eagle nests.  We saw eagles soaring, sitting in trees, taking off, [...]

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On Being Real

I have this friend. She is an incredible mom.  She’s one of those moms who always knows just what to say to her kids, who always has a perky answer, and who makes it a point to spend a little one on one time with each of her children every day…and she usually accomplishes this [...]

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