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Went on a different walk this morning. After dropping off Thomas for camp, had a beautiful stroll with the trees, birds, and the babbling creek water.

With every step and every walk, the next book debut gets closer and closer. Tentatively titled, “Walk With Me” …

Thank you nature!! Nature = Love, Nature = Healing and Nature = Freedom.

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Throwback Post: Party Time at Team TLC Casa

Posted on July 12, 2025 by Camilla

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June 10 2013:

Party time at the Team TLC Casa!!! This is our party we were supposed to have on Friday. Last day of school for Thomas and Lillian. WooooHoooo!!! Water balloons, dancing and just all around silliness to follow!! Happy Monday Y’all!!

Throwback Post: I Am Not Alive and What Are the Rules

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Camilla

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June 8 2009:

I Am Not Alive & What Are the Rules

Took Lillian for her 3rd dentist appt this morning for the opterator device (to try & help w/ speech). This was just to get the retainer. (An opterator is a retainer with pieces added onto the back to prevent airflow through the nose).

I let her take it out for a little while after school (she would NOT close her mouth, will not swallow, would not talk, read or do anything with it in). After a few minutes she typed into her Dynavox, “I am not alive”. We are struggling with this one! She asked me to tell her the “rules” for how to swallow & close her mouth with the retainer piece in her mouth.

Oh my! I’m in for an interesting ride on this one!

June 2025 Update: We did not make it past this. Lillian did not tolerate the device. She would not let me put it back into her mouth!

Throwback Post: Summer Bucket List 2014

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Camilla

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June 8 2014:

We made summer bucket lists on Saturday, sat down together to review them today, and put items on the calendar. We talked about steps to take to help arrive at desired bucket list items and Thomas and Lillian prepared menus for when it’s their turn to cook. Thomas wants to make chicken pot pie so I suggested he look for recipes online … so cute! Lillian wants to make homemade popsicles so she looked online for that. Ended the daylight with an hour and a half walk … Love! xoxo

Throwback Post: Book Review: Snowflake Bentley

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Camilla

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April 1 2016:

Snowflake Bentley

We enjoyed this book to the moon and back! Awesome!

“The average dairy farmer gets up at dawn because he has to go to work in the cow yard. I get up at dawn, too. But it is because I want to find some leaf, hung with dew; or a spider web which the dew has made into the most delicate ropes of pearls ….

I take my camera with me, get down on my knees in the wet grass, and photograph these exquisite bits of nature. Because I do this I can show these lovely things to people who never would have seen them without my help.

They will get their daily quart of milk, all right. Other farmers will attend to that. But I think I am giving them something which is just as important.” -W.A. Bentley

Throwback Post: Library Day with Smores and the Dentist

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Camilla

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April 2 2016:

“Once I learn about something, it seems more fun and cool.” ~Thomas Darnell – March 2014 …. Library Day …. Different library this time!

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April 2 2015:

S’mores! Spring break camping at Camp TLC continues with oven warmed and perfectly gooey s’mores. Thomas and I had it all over our hands and faces. YUM!!

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April 2 2014:

Thomas and I went for a walk on Sunday. It was windy, cloudy and cold …. Then, I found this …. Perfect! I keep forgetting this week to keep my love faucet turned on …. full blast! Filling my heart up with love. So much. So big. See it. Share it. BE IT!

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April 2 2012:

Lillian’s turn at the dentist. Shes kinda worried. Those X-rays hurt her gums!!!

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April 2 2011:

Finding some cool books and movies with Thomas and Lillian!!

Havin fun reading!!!

Throwback Post: Flowers are the Smell of Happyness

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Camilla

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April 2 2013:

“Flowers are the smell of happYness” –Thomas Darnell

“Never let your anger burst out” –Lillian Darnell

“These two inspire me and teach me more every single day!” -Me

Throwback Post: When She Was a Baby

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Camilla

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June 8 2013:

The only time I get to be snuggly with Lillian … When she doesn’t feel good! Told her this is how I used to hold her in the rocking chair when she was a baby. She says, “I’m not a baby. I’ll be a teenager in a year and a half”. Indeed you will Ms. L!!