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With Plymouth MA being America’s Hometown, and where the pilgrims first settled, we have quite the Thanksgiving Parade every year, not to mention a historical culture to enjoy all year long. For 15 years, hundreds of thousands of people have traveled to the historic Plymouth Harbor

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Pixel Plays Peek-A-Boo! (the Hedgehog.)

Posted by Laura on Tuesday Nov 16, 2010 Under Life In General, The Big Picture

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Have you ever met our sweet Pixel?

We haven’t blogged her much since she first came home as a baby in April.  She is 7 1/2 months old now.

But that doesn’t mean, she gets no attention around here! 

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We’re Nominated for 3 Blog Awards!

Posted by Laura on Wednesday Nov 10, 2010 Under Life In General, The Big Picture

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GUESS WHAT?

Our blog here has been nominated in 3 different categories at The HomeSchool Post, for the

HomeSchool Blog Awards!

The categories we are nominated in are:

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A Harvest Fair to Remember

Posted by Laura on Thursday Nov 4, 2010 Under Life In General, The Big Picture

(Please allow the 36 photos to load, before you start scrolling. Thanks.)

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There’s a small country town out in western MA, that holds a lot of heart strings for me.  My aunt, uncle, and cousins have lived there my whole life.  Growing up, I spent a lot of time there with one… (READ MORE......) | 2 Comments

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Just *Some* Things That Make Me Smile….

Posted by Laura on Sunday Oct 24, 2010 Under Life In General, The Big Picture

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I’m always taking random photos, that I love to have because they made me smile. But they wouldn’t necessarily make a whole post.  So I thought I’d try putting them in bunches sometimes, and doing a post now and then, about some of these little things that make me smile. Then I may

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Finally wrapping up the 3 kiddo’s birthday posts here!  But I had to share with you all the gorgeous scenery on our ferry ride home, from Oak Bluffs back to Falmouth.  It was dusk, and it couldn’t have been more beautiful.

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Continuing sharing the trio’s 8th birthday here.  Get ready for a whole lot of photos! (Let them all load before scrolling like crazy, ok?)

Following a birthday kick off at home in the morning (as posted in ‘They 8 and 8 and 8′…), we

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They 8, and 8, and 8…

Posted by Laura on Tuesday Sep 21, 2010 Under Celebrations, The Big Picture, Traditions

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As many of you know, our trio babies had yet another birthday at the end of August, and they turned 8.

EIGHT!!

I really wish they would knock it off.

You know.  The whole growing and growing and getting another

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So we finally got the fair!!  It was the event of the summer we always look forward to.  (Well, one of them.)  It was a HOT day, (and humid), and we did get there a little later in the day than planned, but we got to do and

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{A} Goes to Witness 2 Hope

Posted by Laura on Monday Aug 23, 2010 Under Faith, Life In General, Prayers Request, The Big Picture

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At last, I have gotten it all together enough, to share with you all a little bit about the purpose behind our prayer request for {A} a couple of weeks ago. We understand that some of you may not view it as that big of a deal

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