Taking Candy from Strangers

Me: Naiah, are you going to go trick-or-treating tonight after naptime?
Naiah: Yeah! I don’t need a nap.
Me: Can you say, “trick or treat”?
Naiah: Trick or eat!
Me: Trick or TReat.
Naiah: Trick or EAT!
Me: When you say that, the people will give you candy.
Naiah: Who?
Me: Um. . . the people in the stores, and our neighbors in [...]

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TwinCycle!

Everything’s more fun when you’re evenly matched.
(You might want to turn down the volume. They’re pretty squeaky in this one.)

Note Anna’s budding fashion preferences.

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Practice Makes Perfect

My children are going door-to-door to all the bedrooms in the house, yelling “Trick or treat!” and holding out their candy buckets, grinning maniacally. Oh yes, the day is coming.
Naiah is afraid to wear her dragon costume, because “It’s a scary dragon on my head!” But she is not afraid to cuddle said costume and [...]

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Happy Happy Joy Joy!

(Ten points if you know who/what the title quotes. No wiki-ing! )
I’m running away! Tonight! With Jenn! And two ladies from the church plant!
We aren’t going super far, but we get to stay overnight and watch Beth Moore videos with a bunch of other women and hang out without kids! Isn’t it lovely? I’m stoked. [...]

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Story

I’ve been thinking about this paragraph a lot over the last few weeks:
. . . I must ask you to join me in repeating in exactly the right tone of voice the words with which this lecture opened. Do not say them vaguely and good-temperedly like a busman: you have not the right. Do not [...]

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The Jonah on a Stage Band

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All Shook Up

The latest: Baby Joel is home, but the fight isn’t over. Here’s the news story.
If you get riled up about little things like the state government taking perfectly healthy babies from perfectly healthy mothers, you probably shouldn’t read this.
Jenn befriended this mother a long time ago on a natural birth forum. She told Jenn that [...]

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Pray for Laura

Roxanne can explain it better. . .

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Early Bird

I woke up at 6 a.m. On purpose. It is now 9:30 p.m., and I would like to sleep. That way, maybe I can wake up at 6 a.m. Again.
I’m trying to become a morning person. It seems to me those morning people get a lot more done. I would like to get a lot [...]

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Shepherd

Jonah made a friend at the pumpkin patch today. She likes to herd soccer balls, wagons, kids. . . Anyway, she was his favorite part of the field trip.

 
 The header photo is also from the pumpkin farm.

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