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Everyday Adventures: Birthday Edition
*a weekly look at learning, seeing, and doing new things without flying to another country or spending a gazillion dollars (though those things would be fun, too).* I celebrated my 39th birthday this...
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Everyday Adventures: Bottled Water Fun
*a weekly look at learning, seeing, and doing new things without flying to another country or spending a gazillion dollars (though those things would be fun, too).* Oh, the things my little family...
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Everyday Adventures: Abstract Art
*a weekly look at learning, seeing, and doing new things without flying to another country or spending a gazillion dollars (though those things would be fun, too).* While goofing around on Pinterest...
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Everyday Adventures: Changing the Oil
*a weekly look at learning, seeing, and doing new things without flying to another country or spending a gazillion dollars (though those things would be fun, too).* For the longest time we lived in an...
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Everyday Adventures: Zombie Wedding
Today we had the pleasure and honor of attending a zombie wedding. :) Oh, what fun! To see two friends begin what I know will be a wonderful marriage was awesome enough, but being able to do it in...
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Everyday Adventures: Art Museum
*a weekly look at learning, seeing, and doing new things without flying to another country or spending a gazillion dollars (though those things would be fun, too).* I know I just posted an adventure...
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Everyday Adventures: An Accidental History Lesson
The beauties of home school and geocaching came together yesterday into the perfect example of how life outside the classroom can be fantastic. We didn’t intend to have a history lesson. We actually...
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Everyday Adventures: Downtown Waxhaw
John has had this week off work, and we thought we’d take a little break from car crash videos, indie Xbox games, and napping (yeah, our schedule’s pretty tight) to goof around a bit in downtown...
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Who Died? (An Everyday Adventure Bonus)
I’ve gone on a couple of lovely hikes recently (one with John and one with Grace – our schedules don’t always line up nicely for all three of us to go together) at a local park and discovered all sorts...
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Everyday Adventures: Avengers Partying at the Library
Yep, our library had an Avengers event to celebrate their new superhero library card. What the heck is a superhero library card? Well, it’s one of these: It lets you do nifty stuff like check out more...
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Everyday Adventures: Birthday Glowlympics
In the past few weeks, I’ve been seeing all sorts of nifty ideas on Pinterest for glow-in-the-dark activities…and then I had an idea! (This is where the people in my family usually say, “Oh, no!”) ;)...
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Everyday Adventures: Piñata Party
*a look at learning, seeing, and doing new things without flying to another country or spending a gazillion dollars (though those things would be fun, too).* As I’ve mentioned before around here, my...
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A Ghostly Date Night
I’ve told my lovely readers before about the fantastic public library system in our county. Well, their awesomeness continues! Last Monday, they had a program called “Carolina Ghost Hunters.” Two...
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Why I Spent My Morning in a Kingdom Hall Partying with Jehovah’s Witnesses
Okay, even not-so-careful readers of my blog are probably fully aware of the fact that I’m an atheist. (You can read about it more HERE if you’re interested.) So, why in the world did I go to church at...
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Adventures In…Cookies!
So, I was in the grocery store the other day when I spotted these two items: Now, I don’t usually use store-bought cookie mixes and things, but who am I to reject maple bacon cookies with maple bacon...
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Adventures In…Polio and History
In my If We Were Having Coffee Post on Saturday, I mentioned that I was thinking of going to a talk about the polio outbreak in North Carolina in 1944. John was interested in hearing the talk, but not...
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Adventures In…Art
Last week, I took Grace to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte. I’ll be the first to say that I don’t “get” a lot of modern art. I’m all for people expressing themselves in pretty much any...
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Adventures In…NC History
Grace and I had several field trips last week, but one of our very favorite places was the Mountain Gateway Museum in Old Fort, NC. It’s a super-cute little museum that is just packed with information...
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Adventures In…Ballet and Peter Pan
As I may have mentioned a couple of times before (I fully admit I get ridiculously excited about these things), Grace and I went to the ballet last Friday evening. Grace’s very best friend in the whole...
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Adventures In…Archery
John and I had our very first archery lesson last weekend, and it was just absolutely fantastic! (John has actually had a wee bit of archery experience in the past, but I had never so much as touched a...
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