My Beautiful Mess

Last week, my mom and grandma came over from Enid (where my grandma lives) for the day. We decided to try to go someplace we had never been. So in 100 degree weather, we piled in the mini-van and traveled down Route 66 to Arcadia, USA! Our first stop, POPS. POPS opened last summer and [...]

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One of the things I really like about my yard is that, through trial-and-error, we have planted things that bloom at various times of the season. It’s hard to get anything to flower in the heat of late July and into August. But I have found a few treasures that are heat-hardy and are perennials [...]

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Last week me and The Boys got creative! We actually did a version of this last summer, and they remembered it and asked to make one again. I first got the idea out of the Family Fun Magazine (it’s a good magazine - would recommend it for parents!). Basically, we made a cardboard track for [...]

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With the third week in a row of temperature highs ranging from 98-102 (though Tuesday looks like a cool front is coming through - high of 93 that day!), I’m going to try to stop being cranky and post some stuff to tackle the heat. Because we have actually been doing some “cool” stuff recently, [...]

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It is July 21st…..and it is hot…..and it will continue to be hot here until September…….and that makes me cranky.
The weatherman said the high for today will be 100. I hate him. He is so depressing. (nothing personal, Mr. Weatherman)

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So we left my dad’s in Borger on the 6th, sent the other dads (my husband and brother) back to work in Oklahoma and traveled south about 45 miles to my mom’s in Amarillo, TX. Something strange happened during this time, however - the amount of little boys hanging around me seemed to multiply! In [...]

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I’m finally able to do some posting with pictures of our week in Texas! This is my way to do some “digital scrapbooking”!

So we traveled west to my dad’s in Borger, TX on the 4th with my brother and his 3-year-old son, Jack (my sister-in-law and niece had gone to visit a friend in Colorado). [...]

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I’m sitting at my mom’s dining room table, watching her squeeze in her last few hours with “her boys” (my 2 and my nephew). We have spent the past week in Texas with my dad and then my mom, and are heading home today. We have certainly never lacked for things to do this week!! [...]

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So there isn’t anything red in this post but I will have some white and definitely some blooms! I just like the title - I stole it, of course!
I promised ya some gardening stuff so I thought I ‘d start with the bestest thing in my yard this year, my favorite flower, the one I [...]

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I just realized something tonight - God brought me this thought - or maybe it was I just finally took time to do some talking with Him and I heard this:
“My gift to you this summer is the gift of relationships.”
Wow!! It is so true, and I am so thankful! In the time frame of [...]

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