Throwback Post: Sunset and Pinecones and Love and Healing and Freedom

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April 1 2016:

Wonderful sunset walk with Thomas last night ….. He hit pinecones with a stick until he couldn’t hit anymore! So inspiring watching him. xoxo

Thomas 4.1.16

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.

Galena Walk 4.1.16 #1

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

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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

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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

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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

Snowflake Bentley Book January 2016

Throwback Post: Library Day with Smores and the Dentist

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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!

Team TLC Library Day 4.2.16 #3

Team TLC Library Day 4.2.16 #2 Team TLC Library Day 4.2.16 #1

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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!!!