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Great nostalgia

moonfever0 — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:58:36 -0500

I needed to post on summer camp for the BlogHer cribsheet and your post really inspired me to dig for some of my own memories. Great post! Here's what I finally posted:
http://www.blogher.com/making-memories-summer-camp

Angela at mommy bytes
BlogHer Contributing Editor in Mommy & Family Cribsheet

Hi Wendy

Mata H — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:28:40 -0500

The link works for me...odd. Here it is - just copy and paste it to your browser and it should work. Please let me know if you still have problems. Thanks.

http://compelledtotruenorth.blogspot.com/2009/03/sweet-girl-sweet-memori...

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs right along at Time's Fool

Christine's blog

WENDYMAC68 — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:30:01 -0500

I so wanted to view Christine's blog that you annotated above, but the link kept telling me that internet explorer could not open it.

Do you have an updated address for her blog??

Good post! Thank you for

Josanne — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:36:11 -0600

Good post! Thank you for sharing! I'm not sure why, but with age, we seem to lose our courage, or motivation. Is it because we haven't seen results already? Your post reminds me of one I just posted on my Bathrobe Therapy blog- http://bathrobetherapy.blogspot.com/2009/02/someday-will-never-come.html

This year I think I have the necessary mindset--I determined in my mind to reach a goal that I desperately want to reach. I am praying, and working toward this goal.

Josanne

Rites of Passage

conversationswithmoms — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:14:32 -0600

Time does fly. I cannot believe that my oldest son is already 4 yrs old. I went through major rites with him. His potty training seemed to last forever but now it has finally arrived. It took him a long time to fully be trained and he still, rarely but still has had accidents (number 2). I tried the pressure tactic, didn't work, the incentive tactic (worked a little), the punishment tactic (not recommended, does not work). In the end he went when he wanted to.

I now have a 3 week old and I know that I will be going through it all over again. I will try desperately to be more cool about it this time. Who cares that his cousin is already potty trained and younger than him....

When I finally gave up, was when he finally gave in.

Maria Melo

http://www.conversationswithmoms.com

Arizona

Adamgilly — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:43:45 -0600

Arizona is indeed the home to one of the most well-preserved meteorite impact sites in the world.
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Adam

arizona drug rehab

Me too!

AmberS — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:12:54 -0600

I love that photo. It's great!

I did an album for years, but it fell apart in the past couple of years when I had a crazy toddler. I printed a bunch of photos from the 'missing years' and I'm hoping to pick it up again this year.

~ Amber

www.strocel.com

Karen you so can manage the

scrappyfran — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:10:57 -0600

Karen you so can manage the December album, don't forget Ali advocates simplicity. All you really need is some cardstock, a good pen or two and your photos :)

I'm doing one as well (although I'm behind already!), but apart from that we will do our usual traditions which are a mix of Caribbean (sorrel, punch-a-creme, black cake) and French (foie gras, oysters). Last year we made a gingerbread house for the first time and we plan to do that again this year. Hmm, all our traditions seems to be food related! I'm also making an effort to do as many handmade decorations and gifts as possible and I have a series of step by step tutorias posted here http://francineclouden.typepad.com/tuesday_todo

Lovely photo as usual! :)

Francine (the Grenadian in France)

I just wanted to say...

literary.snob — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:04:22 -0600

Your family picture is adorable--what a sweet family tradition!

Stephanie

(The Childish) Literary Snob

http://literarysnob.blogspot.com

Such great ideas!

Karen Walrond — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:00:07 -0600

I have to say, with the economy the way it is (not to mention my recent leaving of a nice steady paycheck!), these ideas are so amazing for handmade gifts. There are several children I have yet to purchase gifts for -- perhaps treasure hunts and the reading of classic stories are just the thing. Thank you so much for the ideas!

Procrastination has a good side

mashadutoit — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:56:38 -0600

Two years ago, when I should have been working on my masters, I recorded the entire "the hobbit" by reading it out loud with apropriate voices and sound effects. Then I put some nice apropriate music with it to bring out the atmosphere - and gave a copy to each of my family. They all loved it.

Ok so maybe you dont have that much time to toy with recording, but even recording a short story would be cool.

I'm sure what I did was illegal though. I am finding copies of my recordings spreading around as well, as friends with kids are listening to them. Some of the kids think I'm the author too :)

Hand made Games for Christmas

burnsrunner — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:42:21 -0600

I love the idea of hand made anything the family can do together. I got a fun idea out of Nancy Kruse's book, "Treasure Hunt-A Book of Clues for Parties" to do with the family this Christmas. When you talked about taking photographs, you gave me a GREAT idea to add to this. I like the idea of using photographs as part of the clues to find the next clue. Thank you! Treasure Hunts have always been a BIG hit with parties that I have been to, it is something that can involve everyone.

Happy New Year

rebellious thinker — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:32:06 -0500

Happy New Year to you!

I have different images in front of me since my congregation celebrates the holidays in a Catholic Church. It's always odd to note that we keep getting up and then resting our feet on the kneeling stool. Differences. Our shofar blower is 83 and he did the strongest tekiah gedolah in years yesterday. I hope it really will usher in a good year.

Laura, www.RebelliousThoughtsofaWoman.com

Glad to know they're still playing

Candelaria Silva — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:20:53 -0500

Thanks for saying that kids are doing this at school or in the house. I think it really depends on where you live. A lot of my younger friend who have younger kids say that their kids don't play those kind of face-2-face games any more. Perhaps it dependings on the neighborhood you live in.

Candelaria

Good and plenty!

They still do those things but

Denise — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:50:09 -0500

They do them at school or in the house. But yes, playing outside was FUN.

Great post, brings back memories - though I never did quite get the boy crazyness, just sort of went along like I did. ;-)

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

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