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Name: Sarah
Interests: Children!! Home Schooling, Chi Alpha Campus Ministry, Flower gardening, Dachshunds, Ballet, ASL, Hanging at the beach, Camping and studying other cultures. Doing the best I can in everything I do! :O)
Expertise: Adoption Paper Chasing! Potty training, Triaging headwounds, bloody noses and all other boo boos, Playing in mud puddles, Making sand castles, Building snow families, Playing hide and seek in the dark, Building tents with chairs and blankets, Making the best and biggest rootbeer floats during thunderstorms, Convincing my dc that broccoli is indeed better than cookies and lastly keeping my dh on his toes with my spontaneous, carefree and child like heart! :o)
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| Temporary Leave of AbsenceI won't be posting much for awhile. We have begun our busy days of home schooling starting up again full swing. This year we have a fourth grader, third grader and two in kindergarten! FUN!!! For curious minds we are doing Sonlight Core 4, US History emphasis, with our boys and Core K with our girls. Everyone has their separate math and so on, of course!
We are also getting ready for our travel adventure for our adoption in September. We will be making an across country road trip in order to bring the whole family along. The last couple of days have been for preparing the house before we leave for a new baby to arrive home to. Lots to do for sure! Of course, there is always the abundance of paperwork and to do list relating to the adoption as well. We are plodding along well and hope to be on our way for our trip soon. Once we get to our destination and we wait for the baby to be born we plan on making great use of the experience for educational purposes by visiting lots of places we have never seen before. Everyone is beyond excited!!
Pray with us for a safe trip, healthy baby and for all the legal work to go through well.
Will update on our family when things settle down and we have someone special to announce! 
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| If you have BPA Baby Bottles... READ! =)I just arrived home last night with brand new baby bottles and didn't have to give up my love of the Avent bottles or invest any more money than I had already when I bought them for my twins. YAY! Babies-R-Us or a Toys-R-Us that has a baby section is doing an exchange for FREE if you have any of the baby bottles with BPA for the BPA FREE bottles. No receipt necessary! Just bring in your bottle, bottle ring and cap if you have it and they will give you a non-BPA bottle in exchange. No nipples necessary as everyone is supposed to throw those out every three months anyway. You may not have store credit or anything like that. It has to be an exchange immediately for another bpa free bottle.
For example... if you had the clear, hard plastic Avent bottles that I had with BPA in them you can go in and do a "switch out" where they will replace all your bottles for the non-BPA ones. I had six four ounce Avent bottles and ten of the nine ounce. I now have all of this brand new for FREE! RUN! lol Seriously, they can't keep them on the shelves in my area. Babies-R-Us is not even making you have to stay with the brand you bring in. You can choose from the other BPA free bottles if you desire. I had to hold out until they got the Avent ones in because they are unable to keep the stock up while Avent is just now making the new ones. I actually went to two different stores to get my stash exchanged so quickly.  It was worth the detective work and the drive to get them because I really like the simplicity and quality of the Avent baby bottles compared to the others.
Just so you know if you have a hard, completely clear plastic baby bottle it more than likely has the BPA in it. The one's WITHOUT BPA are now with a brownish honey look to them. My new Avent bottles are all honey colored as are the Dr. Browns or the Born Free. Do a search online for what BPA is and how it can be harmful to your baby if don't know of this yet.
Hope this helps another Mom out there!
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| Inspirational Sister in the Lord!There are certain people who I find inspiration from and almost every time I read their words I feel as though the Lord is speaking directly to me. OumaB is one of those dear Sister's in the Lord! I wanted to share with you because I thought her journal entry today in response to Hurricane Fay (or as she says, Sister Fay) was something we all could be reminded of. Be blessed and challenged! 
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| Gotta Question For You! (re: parental advice)At what age do you think it would be ok to show a child the movie, The Hiding Place? This is one of my absolute favorite movies since I was a child! I can't remember how old I was though when I saw it. I know I had to have been ten or older seeing that it was my stepdad that introduced me to it and he came into my life at about ten years old. My boys love history and are definitely intrigued with wanting to watch The Hiding Place. I'm not sure if it would be too disturbing? They are ages, 10 and 9. My girls are only 5 1/2 though. What do you all think?
We all have colds right now and are just hanging in there. It's too hot to be outside when you feel crummy and I'm too congested to read any books out loud to the kids for family time. We have done a few board games, but I'm ready for a break from those. So... a good movie is in order!
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OFF topic... I have a private adoption blog for our current adoption journey. If you have been a long time reader/online friend of mine and you know I pretty much know you well from here or a parenting board then please feel free to ask for an invite. You know what I mean! I will need your email to invite you so send me a private message if you would like. You might want to remind me where I "know" you from seeing that in my old age I get screen names mixed up.
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EDIT TO ADD!!!!
CLOTH DIAPER AIO GIVE AWAY!!
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| Just a little rain...In honor of my brother-in-law teasing us that we are being "scared off by a little rain" I thought I would show you our flooded vacation. (the pics are awful due to it being at dusk and rainy, but you will get the idea)
 The road going into the family camping property. Just a little rain!  Standing on the hilly part of the property where our camper usually goes. All of this is typically grass . See the porta potty? It was floating all, but one corner.  Um, what are we going to do with this before it goes floating into the main part of the lake? It was leaning forward enough that the spring action door was held open.  Hmm.... open it up and let's see what's inside. Just a little rain! No I don't love the porta potty that much to pose like that. I was actually holding it still while it floated.  See the little patch of grass to the right? That is typically uphill where we put our camper. The rest should not be under water!  Here is all that is left of the family property. The porta potty people said we needed to get the potty to higher ground, but seeing that this was all that was left to the property with more rain coming in all week we.....  ...took a hold of it and floated it down the road for the porta potty company to come pick it up. No camping vacation this year.  At least the porta potty company was kind enough to not charge us this year for the rental of the potty.
 After we did the potty job (does this count Kimmy for getting closer as a family? lol) we carried the kids into the property so they could see it for themselves and understand why we were not camping this year. It wasn't pitch black out like it shows here...that was just the flash.  Caleb giggled the entire way in because of how high the water was. I wish I had his laughter on video!  Here they are on higher ground looking over the water just beneath them. We said goodnight and went back home after our deed was done. Time to make other plans now for some family fun. If you are curious enough you can go back earlier in my blog and see pics of us camping on the family property for comparison.
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