Poppy

Parenting: We Watch the Scary Parts, Too

By On March 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Drew and Emily, Pictures

An essential element of any good story is tension or scariness–the conflict. A story without conflict is quite frankly boring. And certainly life as we know it is full of stressful parts that cause us to fear. What should we do then when we are reading a book or watching a movie with our children and it [...]

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Oh Land

By On March 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Drew and Emily
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5KgZK_dvXI

Stumbled across this song tonight and I’m just wondering why no one has ever told me about it before, because it’s fantastically awesome!
Side note: see how I’m in this weird place of using both British and American adjectives?  Its cuz  I’m closer in geographical terms to my roots yet still enjoying my U.S citizenship [...]

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The Talented Miss Amy Maust

By On March 17, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Drew and Emily

Amongst many other things Drew’s cousin Amy has amazing talent when you put a piece of paper in front of her and a pencil in her hand.  And what an  honor it was to see her drawing of Poppy last night on FB.  What a wonderful surprise! It’s just so perfect.

 

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One Ant Sized Step for Mankind, a BFG Step for Me

By On March 10, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Drew and Emily

BFG??????  Just Google The BFG and you’ll twig (that one was for you Drew).
I had to do a little blog post about my HUGE accomplishment I had today just to mark my milestone because I’m so proud of myself.
We’ve been here for just over 2 months and I was starting to feel really discouraged that [...]

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