Movie Review: Chasing Mavericks

On Family Movie Night last Friday, Wendy chose Chasing Mavericks (we had a Redbox code!).  At first I was a little nervous; Tinkerbell is not one to sit well through non-animated movies.  Fortunately, this was a good pick. Chasing Mavericks, a movie released in 2012, tells the story of Jay Moriarty, an accomplished surfer who became famous at age 16, when his wipeout was filmed while surfing Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, California.  This movie was based on a true story--one of my favorite genres. There are a couple of words used in this movie that I would have preferred to…

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The First Sign of Summer…

...is signing up for our local library system's summer reading program and our local park program! We signed up today, and Rapunzel was so excited! If you have a local library who offers a summer program (many of them do), I'd strongly recommend signing your kids up.  Our library system rewards the children based on the number of minutes read.  I enjoy this method better than number of books read only because it's more fair to children of different ages.  Either way, it's a great way to keep the kids' learning throughout the summer.  It's a known fact that many children…

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Returning for Summer

I have 89 emails in my inbox. I should read them.  Or sort them.  Or something. I should be working.  Or keeping my kids from drowning our potted plants in their pool water. But I'm not. I haven't been here for about 3 months.  Three days after my last post, my oldest biological daughter's father passed away unexpectedly, and I didn't know how to deal with telling the world.  A wild mix of emotions was involved, including past hurts, what ifs, anger, some depression, grief.  You name it, I felt it.  Then dealing with his family--that was a whole issue…

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When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned

I have to admit--earlier this week, I was seriously thinking about quitting the blog thing. I'm just not happy with my numbers--no non-spam comments, small number of views, etc. The problem with that is that I'm not in the habit of quitting things easily. I never have been. Well some things. Some things I quit pretty easily--like dieting. Exercising. Okay scratch that, maybe I quit about half of the things in my life, but that's not the point. Getting something started is even more difficult than keeping it going, though. There are always those excuses running through my head: "I…

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And the Bride Wore White: Review and Giveaway

Today, over at MODSquad (Mothers of Daughters--that's me!), Tracie has posted a review of Dannah Gresh's And the Bride Wore White, a book that discusses the why of sexual purity--a topic that girls today desperately need to understand.  And something I wish I had known when I was a teenager. Check out the review and enter to win a free copy of the book!  Follow this link: And the Bride Wore White Review and Giveaway

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