A Day Thirty-Nine: Tuesday, February 8th A A This is the latest “girl band” to hit the music scene. Their name is Chloe and The Mush! I can tell from having heard it that their music lacks rhythm and melody, but the joy that abounds from them is contagious! A Day Forty: Wednesday, February 9th […]
Ten on Ten: Take a photo every hour for ten consecutive hours on the tenth of each month. Document a day of your life and find beauty among the ordinary moments. . . The musical instruments that the children play. Music is a growing part of our lives. It started with Chloe taking violin, then […]
A Day Seven: Friday, January 7th A [image width=”148″ height=”176″ frame=”simple” align=”left”]http://www.startsateight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fancynancy.jpg[/image]I call the photo for today, “Fancy Nancy” and her fancy boy cohort Jayden! This week Ava discovered Fancy Nancy for the first time. For those of you that don’t know, Fancy Nancy is a little girl created by Jane O’Connor, and started with […]
A Day Five: Wednesday, January 5th A Snow, snow, came again. Since getting hit with two weeks of snow starting on the 1st of December, we have had virtually nothing else. Then we had a thaw and two days of 40-50 degree weather. The kids have been hoping for more snow so that they can […]
This week over at I ♥ Faces the challenge is “In the Orchard”. We did not head out to any orchard this year. Instead, we have an apple tree in our backyard that we were picking apples from. We don’t usually eat too many of them as they are small and my husband likes his […]
It has been awhile since I have done one of these posts. I have not only been busy and not feeling very inspired, but also discouraged that my “baby” has not caught on at all. Two weeks ago I posted about what love and selflessness Jayden showed to Chloe after she lost all her money […]
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It is no secret to those of you who follow my blog that I have been a little, well, uninspired and lax with my blog recently. Yesterday something happened that was more than noteworthy. So here I sit, in the wee hours of the morning, hammering out these words that lifted my spirits and gave […]