Below are a few photo updates. In non-photographic updates, I have started subbing, mostly at the girls' school. I love being back in the classroom without all the responsibility. I also started a less personal blog. I started it to discipline myself to write more. Writers write best about subjects they know well so I specialized this blog on what I've done for almost a decade now....raise girls. It's called Pruning Princesses. Check it out here and share with friends who might enjoy it. |
| H and my mom have been working on a quilt here and there over the years. They finished this fall. |
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| Sometime during the sewing process, H decided to accessorize herself. The earrings are taped on! |
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| All done! You can tell the quilt was started years ago because if H was picking fabric today, it would have soccer balls on it. |
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| For years, K has sat patiently and watched her sister play in tournaments. This year, she got to play in a tournament with little girls that she trained with all summer. They were all 8 and play in a 9-year-old tournament. They came in second. They did a great job. |
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| H played in the same tournament as K as a guest player for another coach's U10 team . She helped the team win first place and since it was the first time she wasn't the coaches daughter, she didn't get to keep the big trophy. |
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| Soccer-crazy H sometimes asks me to wake her up 20 minutes early. Then she goes outside in the dark and practices soccer moves. She is one passionate kid. |
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| For the costume parade at school, K was Anne of Green Gables, here we were practicing putting her hair extensions in. I just think the above photo is funny. Now K really wants long hair! |
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| Every red head has to be Pippi Longstocking at least once for Halloween. This was H's year. |
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| K in her Anne of Green Gables costume. Except for the missing teeth, people thought she really looked the part. |
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| Trick or treat night with a friend. K switched costumes to something from a store she bought with her own money....something from the Prince of Persia? I forgot to get a good picture but Tom carved an awesome pumpkin with the math symbol of pie on it...pumpkin pie! Get it? |
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| The girls with our friend Jordan, the pirate. |
