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Listen To Your Mother 2017 – In The Books
This past Sunday was the final season of Listen To Your Mother OKC. Listen To Your Mother has been a nationwide event for seven years and in Oklahoma for five years. The national production team feels...
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Jammie Kern – Listen To Your Mother cast member
This is Jammie Kern and she is something special. I first met Jammie in 2014 when we were cast in Listen To Your Mother OKC together. This year, I had the happy surprise of being with her in the 2017...
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Dear Younger Me by Mandy Moore
Meet Mandy Moore. No, not the singer but just as dang cute. I met Mandy at the first Listen To Your Mother cast read through. There was something about her gentle personality and sweet yet...
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Is the Internet Making Parenting Harder?
Thoughts have been swirling around in my head since Mother’s Day about parenting and why it feels so hard. In the grand scheme of things, my boys are really good. There are bumps in the road but all...
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The Epic Road Trip of 2017 – Part One
We just returned from a ten day family road trip covering seven states with four of those states having overnights in them. We started in Oklahoma then made our way to Nebraska by way of Kansas. This...
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The Epic Road Trip of 2017 – Part Two – The Black Hills
Previously on The Epic Road Trip of 2017, the Clintons turned a thirteen hour drive from Oklahoma to South Dakota into a whirlwind tour of interesting and off-the-beaten-path sights. Once we reached...
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The Epic Road Trip of 2017- Part 3 – Minneapolis
For the final leg of our Epic Road Trip (see the first part here and the second part here) we left the Black Hills and headed across the state to Minnesota. Dear Husband has a cousin that lives in...
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Five Minute Friday – Play
Today I’m trying something new. Writing for only five minutes. I’m joining the Five Minute Friday link up with the writing prompt “play”. I set a timer for five minutes and forced myself to stop when...
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Five Minute Friday: Support
Today’s Five Minute Friday writing prompt is: support. Five minutes are on the timer…GO! Next week I will be traveling to San Fransisco to a conference for Assistance League. As an active volunteer,...
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It Could Always Be Worse
Recently, I discovered singer/song writer Nicole Nordeman. I may be the last mother on the planet to know about her song Slow Down. In case you have been under the same rock as I have, the video is...
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The Pioneer Women Mercantile Visit
The most asked question among Oklahoma women in the past year…Have you been up to the Mercantile yet? Everyone knows what The Mercantile is. Even if you don’t live in Oklahoma, if you watch the Food...
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There Is No Easy Button for Middle School
A few weeks ago I wrote about how middle school is eating my lunch. I wrote about how I want to just jump past the struggle and pain. I want to have all the answers in place and know how to utilize...
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
We have been participating in our church’s Christmas pageant for ten years. It started in 2007 when we moved home and our oldest son, Addison, was barely three. He dressed up as a barn animal with...
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Women’s March – Take Two
When the anniversary of the Women’s March rolled around, it took me two hot seconds to check my calendar and fill in the date. I took Addison to the Women’s March in Oklahoma City last year and I knew...
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Middle School Check Point
We are just over half way through our first middle school adventure. Everybody says middle school is the toughest of the school years and they aren’t lying. We recently attended spring parent/teacher...
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On Camping and Unplugging
Last weekend was one of those very rare weekends when there weren’t any hard and fast commitments on the calendar for anyone in our family. Yes, there were things we could have done or participated in...
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European Vacation Part 1
We recently returned from a European vacation of a lifetime. We took our boys to Amsterdam and London. Why Amsterdam? We have family that lives there and they have two little boys near Harry’s age....
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Five Minute Friday: Vacation
I’ve been sort of m.i.a. when it comes to blogging regularly and keeping up with the Five Minute Friday prompts. I gave myself a pass in May and June because of the hub-bub of the end of school and...
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European Vacation: Part 2
If you missed the first part of our summer vacation recap you can check it out here. Because this European vacation was chock-a-block full of activities I’m going to break the rest of our trip up into...
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European Vacation: Wrap Up
If you haven’t already seen the first part of our vacation, you can check out part 1 here and part 2 here. The last three days of our journey were spent packing in the culture and off the beaten path...
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