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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770</id><updated>2012-02-23T08:29:18.875-08:00</updated><category term="Random" /><category term="motherhood" /><category term="Homeschool" /><category term="bible study" /><category term="Kids" /><category term="Hair" /><category term="Winter Summit" /><category term="funny" /><category term="DIY" /><category term="Parenting" /><category term="purpose" /><category term="encouragement" /><category term="Photography" /><category term="Wordless Wednesday" /><category term="winter" /><category term="mission" /><category term="crafts" /><category term="life" /><category term="embrace the camera" /><category term="gifts" /><category term="tutorials" /><category term="printing photos" /><category term="Hayden" /><category term="Recipe" /><category term="Faith" /><category term="kids craft" /><category term="snow" /><title type="text">TMH</title><subtitle type="html" /><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>140</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/YSZPv" /><feedburner:info uri="blogspot/yszpv" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>blogspot/YSZPv</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-242927823139732386</id><published>2012-02-21T21:13:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-21T21:13:49.039-08:00</updated><title type="text">A Great Day After Some Not-So-Great Days</title><content type="html"> &lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Well, the 4 of us did it! We passed a stomach bug all the way around the house! It was a mean, but thankfully quick one and you never really appreciate doing the every day things until you've been really sick!  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Our day started off with Classical Conversations where one of the lovely families fessed up to being George Washington's great x 9 grand child. So here I am very proudly holding GW's pistol! How cool! ( I think it is a pistol? Right?? I didn't pay attention to that part.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-rHA1vEXL5wg/T0R5iDilvfI/AAAAAAAACzo/9PCjOaRpweQ/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Next we drove Nana to the airport for her visit to Florida then headed home. We read library books and Hayden fell asleep. I laid him down and then something happened that hasn't happened in an extremely long time. Miss I-Never-Stop-Moving-Maguire crawled into my lap and did this!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-VFfO-53tukg/T0R5fXBAlBI/AAAAAAAACzY/J_w1HoPsrMY/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Yes. Shocking. That stomach bug took a big bite.&lt;br&gt;Anyhow, we all woke up in plenty of time to enjoy another amazingly beautiful winter day!  There were ponies and neighbors to play with and a walk to the pond where Hayden tried to convince me sharks could live in our pond. (I knew that 12 Deadliest Animals movie was too much for him - but he insisted). &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vSH7drqQGL0/T0R5hQswkRI/AAAAAAAACzg/gfr_-jQR_Dk/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;A Great day after some not so great days.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-242927823139732386?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/ROpKBBHZDG8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/242927823139732386/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/great-day-after-some-not-so-great-days.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/242927823139732386" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/242927823139732386" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/ROpKBBHZDG8/great-day-after-some-not-so-great-days.html" title="A Great Day After Some Not-So-Great Days" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-rHA1vEXL5wg/T0R5iDilvfI/AAAAAAAACzo/9PCjOaRpweQ/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/great-day-after-some-not-so-great-days.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-7595862146153184505</id><published>2012-02-18T15:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-18T15:19:40.693-08:00</updated><title type="text">S*N*O*W</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The LDA are supposed to be much more effective and after having 6-8 injections over the span of a couple of years most people can go years without allergies before they may need another injection. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The only downside is that for 3 days surrounding the injections you must be on a very strict diet. I have been fretting about this part for weeks. The foods are cooked cabbage, carrots, celery, potatoes, sweet potatoes, raw lettuce, lamb, wild game or fish, and sea salt. That's it. No gum, olive oil, tooth paste, soap, chap stick,...... &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So wouldn't you know I planned and prepared and tried to convince my kids we were going to pretend like we live in the 1800's for 3 days AND then my kids got terribly sick today!!! I'm pretty sure it's the flu. So shots are postponed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; On a brighter note, I made lots of foods that I would have never made otherwise and they weren't that bad. Actually the lamb stew and potato fries were good.  Pretty much throw all the vegetables above finely chopped into a pot with water and cooked ground lamb! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='center' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-t_kyz9u8EsU/Tz2PibJ66pI/AAAAAAAACyc/jkQkoQFyPA8/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='center' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vLSrhGXddlM/Tz2PgtY2S-I/AAAAAAAACyU/Y1Jccrnv7II/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='center' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/-11tP8ntMnjI/Tz2Pi6Te1PI/AAAAAAAACyk/h8GT99zJds0/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='center'&gt;Hope you are having a happy and healthy Thursday!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-3015393228739526709?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/tO9QfrVqUM0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/3015393228739526709/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/change-of-plans.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/3015393228739526709" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/3015393228739526709" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/tO9QfrVqUM0/change-of-plans.html" title="Change of Plans" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-t_kyz9u8EsU/Tz2PibJ66pI/AAAAAAAACyc/jkQkoQFyPA8/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/change-of-plans.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-5794064910737323019</id><published>2012-02-13T12:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-13T12:20:20.777-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="printing photos" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photography" /><title type="text">The Lost Art of Printing Pictures</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hi there! &amp;nbsp;I've wanted to share this post for a couple of weeks now. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bath time for the kids after&amp;nbsp;some time in the snow&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;today makes for as good a time as any!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Qf9qvRnzvE/TzlqPk8NT2I/AAAAAAAACx8/Kllk08CcHMs/s1600/02:13:12blog001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Qf9qvRnzvE/TzlqPk8NT2I/AAAAAAAACx8/Kllk08CcHMs/s400/02:13:12blog001.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So, I have to admit that since the digital age took over&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;the world &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; the&amp;nbsp;purchase of my &lt;a href="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/fantom-drives-g-force-megadisk-1tb-triple-interface-hard-drive/502206000000000?src=3WWRWXGB&amp;amp;ZYXSEM=0"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;fantom backup&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that will hold&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;one gazillion photos, I have long neglected&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;actually ordering photos to have and to hold! &amp;nbsp;One reason,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;is that I'm not usually satisfied with the quality I get from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Walgreens or Walmart or &lt;u&gt;fill in the blank&lt;/u&gt; and I don't want&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;to fork over the money to have them professionally printed. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So, there they sit in a grey machine connected to my Mac. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AJ3RV4KX4rI/Tzlqr60WgxI/AAAAAAAACyM/bXrS7jYJwLk/s1600/02:13:12blog002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AJ3RV4KX4rI/Tzlqr60WgxI/AAAAAAAACyM/bXrS7jYJwLk/s640/02:13:12blog002.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I read a review about &lt;strike&gt;a year ago&lt;/strike&gt; from a mom in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;California who had the same problem. &amp;nbsp;Lots of great pictures but&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;nothing really to show for it. &amp;nbsp;So she sent her images to all kinds&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;of different print labs, and had them printed in all sorts of different&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;finishes; matte, glossy, metallic, etc, etc....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I tried really hard to find her blog again but couldn't. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Anyhow, she determined that the best bang for&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;your buck with the most accurate coloring and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;best service was the following:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;She ordered her favorites from&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/welcome" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Snapfish&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;matte finish, with white border. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Now, the white border is a preference. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I tried it and really like it for photo albums&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;or for hanging them from cute little clips like so.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0V2nGKM-WUU/Tzlp1o-NJkI/AAAAAAAACx0/VMbiIWQSMHY/s1600/Image-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0V2nGKM-WUU/Tzlp1o-NJkI/AAAAAAAACx0/VMbiIWQSMHY/s640/Image-1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And here are a couple more that I had printed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PSrUN5EAJfY/TzlqkRq8B5I/AAAAAAAACyE/zB-DpiL5KcQ/s1600/02-13-12blog004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PSrUN5EAJfY/TzlqkRq8B5I/AAAAAAAACyE/zB-DpiL5KcQ/s640/02-13-12blog004.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I was super duper happy with the photos. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Note: When you order your prints with the matte finish you have&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;to wait about a week to get them in the mail. &amp;nbsp;Which is great because&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;if you order them glossy at Snapfish they are printed at Walgreens lab. &amp;nbsp;Boo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This what you are trying to avoid. :) It's worth waiting.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Another greaaaaat way to get some of your photos out of your camera and into&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;the hands of people you love is to send them a Postagram via the app on your phone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It is only &lt;b&gt;99 cents!&lt;/b&gt; to send one of your favorite instagram pictures with a message on a postcard!! &amp;nbsp;Then you can pop the photo out! This is my favorite new thing!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hayden sent one to his daddy to thank him for teaching him&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;his master ninja skills. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RTRIDlJ4wuw/Tzlo1bYQ0TI/AAAAAAAACxs/KZZm0SufLZA/s1600/02-13-12blog005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RTRIDlJ4wuw/Tzlo1bYQ0TI/AAAAAAAACxs/KZZm0SufLZA/s640/02-13-12blog005.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkhdyLmasH4/Tzln2RwJwyI/AAAAAAAACxk/QQDsdu0EQwY/s1600/02:13:12blog003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LkhdyLmasH4/Tzln2RwJwyI/AAAAAAAACxk/QQDsdu0EQwY/s400/02:13:12blog003.jpg" width="347" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hopefully this will inspire you to get some good ole fashion&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;pictures printed!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Monday!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://soverycreative.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E8IoTpE39io/Ti8XgtgMG8I/AAAAAAAADaM/UMtelR79eDU/s1600/scp.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://itssoverycheri.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="5" height="133" src="http://itssoverycheri.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/partybutton.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-5794064910737323019?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/N4OHecR1qz4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/5794064910737323019/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/lost-art-of-printing-pictures.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/5794064910737323019" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/5794064910737323019" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/N4OHecR1qz4/lost-art-of-printing-pictures.html" title="The Lost Art of Printing Pictures" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Qf9qvRnzvE/TzlqPk8NT2I/AAAAAAAACx8/Kllk08CcHMs/s72-c/02:13:12blog001.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/lost-art-of-printing-pictures.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-7778472436314630434</id><published>2012-02-10T18:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-10T18:42:47.666-08:00</updated><title type="text" /><content type="html"> &lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;This week has been a blur.  Shawn has been incredibly busy at work and we stayed up late every night working on stuff for the practice. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; I also have had problems with my thyroid ever since Hayden was born but decided to go off my medication (dumb) and see a new doctor so we could start from scratch. So it was about 2 months between the time I stopped the medicine and when I saw the new doctor. Did I mention I have hypothyroidismswhich means my thyroid is under productive which translates into I COULD SLEEP FOR 12 HOURS AnD WAKE UP TIRED EVERY SINGLE DAY. I'm not a big fan of taking medicine but I kissed that prescription bottle yesterday. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;So here are the ONLY pictures I took this week. So rare for me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-FdVgHzaKkMQ/TzXVnwz9XXI/AAAAAAAACxE/0eLVS9-UXms/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Vat0pnrXH04/TzXVpRfughI/AAAAAAAACxc/h7RGwjJWkVk/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/-07yKd-Wzjgg/TzXVocswHtI/AAAAAAAACxM/wTS2p6fKUe4/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;We made butter one day by shaking heavy whipping cream.  My tricep was sore the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-n2KQsPCgH4Q/TzXVpMfLwNI/AAAAAAAACxU/CmSxMROVCo4/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;And this was a bird in a nest in my moms backyard. It almost looked fake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Hopefully I'll get some pep in my step for next week!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-7778472436314630434?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/cii3tCt-vrE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/7778472436314630434/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/this-week-has-been-blur.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/7778472436314630434" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/7778472436314630434" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/cii3tCt-vrE/this-week-has-been-blur.html" title="" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-FdVgHzaKkMQ/TzXVnwz9XXI/AAAAAAAACxE/0eLVS9-UXms/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/this-week-has-been-blur.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-5284891873061883325</id><published>2012-02-08T07:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-08T12:19:41.881-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="life" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="encouragement" /><title type="text">Moving On-The Circle of Life</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ead1dc;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d5a6bd;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'm sitting here on the couch with a laptop on my lap.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It was a good and busy day with the kids.&amp;nbsp; So much of &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;what the Lord is teaching me through parenting and &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;homeschooling is so fullfilling, and hard. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It is amazing to me that all my life I never felt like God&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;had something special for me.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Most kids, even very young ones,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;have some sort of an idea in their&amp;nbsp;mind of what they want to be &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;when they grow up.&amp;nbsp; I don't remember ever having a clue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Even in college, no desire, none.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I just kept taking classes&amp;nbsp;until they gave me a degree in something.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Then corporate&amp;nbsp;America was the next logical step.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And to be really honest&amp;nbsp;I hated every single moment of it.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Just as I was a great student,&amp;nbsp;I was also a great employee. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;What drove me? I am terrified of failure.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But being driven by fear instead of by the excitement&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;of reaching a goal makes a huge difference!&amp;nbsp; One makes you &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;miserable, the other invigorates. Fast forward a bit, to marriage&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and having two children and the opportunity came for me to &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;be a full time mom.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As any mother knows, being a mom is no easy task&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and I have struggled many days, more in the beginning stages,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;but I&amp;nbsp;have never one day wished I could go back to work.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Homeschooling&amp;nbsp;and raising my kids is what I was meant to do!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It was what God had for&amp;nbsp;me all along!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;And I'm so overjoyed to finally be living for a purpose!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div 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#7f6000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It may sound silly now, and it probably would've sounded ridiculous&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;at any point in my youth to tell my friends or professors that when &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I grow up I just want to be a mom!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Although when I figured out this was what&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;God had created me for it still didn't&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;automatically take away the fear of failure bit.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have struggled- and&amp;nbsp;still struggle with thinking about&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;all of the ways I could totally fail&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;at this and my children would grow up to be &lt;i&gt;hoodlums&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This again, is&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;not a fun way to live my days.&amp;nbsp; Fear produces anxiety.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Who needs more&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;of that?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Lord&amp;nbsp;has been faithful&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; in showing me that&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;His grace is enough for even me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I WILL fail.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Every day.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But every day I know him more and am able&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;to hopefully show my kids just a little more of him and less of me.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And the&amp;nbsp;opposite of looking at myself and all of my weaknesses&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;is to look at him, at&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;the goal of eternity.&amp;nbsp; To remember that if I do nothing else in my day, if I only&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;point my kids to Jesus, that is enough.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;He will take care of the rest and I can&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;lay the burden on him.&amp;nbsp; Just saying that makes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;me take in a deep breath and let&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;it out slowly.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is a long post.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But I am needing to get some thoughts out so thank you if &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;you are still here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So on to today.&amp;nbsp; Now.&amp;nbsp; Do you ever feel like life is a cycle?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;You come upon a&amp;nbsp;roadblock, you hopefully overcome&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;that particular roadblock, and then hopefully&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;for a season enjoy a little peace? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Then another roadblock, overcoming, and peace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Growing, maturing, finding out you can do more&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;that you thought you could do over&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and over again?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have helped my husband in his private&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;counseling practice for the&amp;nbsp;last 8 years. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Even when I worked full time, I was in charge of all&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;of the billing, insurance,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and finance part of his practice as well.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And I have continued that part of it, and honestly&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;struggled with the&amp;nbsp;balance of it more post kids then pre kids.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I feel as though only in the last several months&amp;nbsp;have&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I really gotten to a place where I have balance with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;my role in our business, a real&amp;nbsp;rhythm that isn't overwhelming to me.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Do you feel it coming on?&amp;nbsp; The start of that cycle&amp;nbsp;again?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Lord whispering that he has something more for me?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Well, I do and he does.&amp;nbsp;Another goal that could have an eternal impact.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The fear is creeping in.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The fear tells me that I could NEVER be qualified to help&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;my husband in his practice.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To develop marriage tools, to write about marriage, to &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;give others advice for goodness sakes!!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Me?&amp;nbsp; And this is where once again,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I must trust and be faithful to what he is calling me to do.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I tell myself life is short.&amp;nbsp; I don't want to waste it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I want to keep my eyes on the goal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The comfortable place was nice while&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;it lasted but now &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;its time to move on.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span 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/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/moving-on-circle-of-life.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-4278575809398528392</id><published>2012-02-06T07:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-06T07:23:36.699-08:00</updated><title type="text">InstaWeekend</title><content type="html"> &lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vgiTdPHzI44/Ty_wcNBndjI/AAAAAAAACwk/ZOh8QGOEJps/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Oklahoma has been beautiful this winter! Besides about a dozen trips to Florida to visit Shawn's family Oklahoma is all I know!  Most people move here kicking and screaming but then soon come to love the people and the slower pace of life. I personally can't imagine life any faster but just like everything else it is all about what is "normal" for you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Q3dAX6EnVKc/Ty_wa4HvMgI/AAAAAAAACwM/a0LvRO59I0Q/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Although everyone else in the world loves my chicken pot pie, poor Hayden is not a fan. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-csgL1QwEU_Q/Ty_wdeF1lqI/AAAAAAAACws/B6OLpI4LW0c/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Took our kids and the neighbors kids to the park. Love our fellow homeschool next door neighbors. They will be the most missed thing when we move!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8YrLWNpe354/Ty_wbBeCO8I/AAAAAAAACwU/KKxbLCWnMsk/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Hayden's shadow in the car. Love the eyelashes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/-P6FkoqOIm4o/Ty_waPkNdhI/AAAAAAAACwE/rofPWfx0vV0/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/-mCa1vtLjsDw/Ty_wZIH7H6I/AAAAAAAACv0/vWHYmHihjKE/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Looking for lots.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh4.ggpht.com/-G2tYbRq9sSk/Ty_wdgiO_YI/AAAAAAAACw0/s-pwMxOBkRU/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Best halftime show! Took me back to my youth. I knew every word and sang along for my kids entertainment!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='left' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-0G4zSVsLRHk/Ty_wZiysLwI/AAAAAAAACv8/PelNAMfLnvg/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='left'&gt;Speaking of. Probably the best part about living in Oklahoma is Braums Ice Cream &amp; Dairy. All products from a local farm and lots of location. 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/><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/instaweekend.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-7914747212493153350</id><published>2012-02-04T11:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-04T11:55:24.437-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photography" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="encouragement" /><title type="text">Yesterday {always too fast}</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I read &lt;a href="http://megduerksen.typepad.com/whatever/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;this post&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yesterday morning, from a mom with older children,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and it made me want hold tight to these two kids of mine and&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;never let go! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It rained most of the day and was&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;perfect for a day of games, having&amp;nbsp;friends over for lunch,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;playing in the rain,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;snuggling and sipping hot chocolate.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;These pictures are precious moments of a great&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;day that I never want to forget.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Too often I let the days slip by without taking time&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;to soak up the breath, and the&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;kisses, and the tears, and those glorious moments&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;when they need my direction. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not yesterday. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I got soaked!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: 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crew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;with none other than......&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Berklee and Hayden!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B8J8Gr5BapY/TysJHb2bNjI/AAAAAAAACus/liGh_pczq6Y/s1600/photo-75.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B8J8Gr5BapY/TysJHb2bNjI/AAAAAAAACus/liGh_pczq6Y/s400/photo-75.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I bet you couldn't have guessed that. &amp;nbsp;:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.andersonfamilycrew.blogspot.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="155" src="http://i54.tinypic.com/15yi6ad.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;They are getting so big. &amp;nbsp;I go back and forth between wanting&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;another little baby and then appreciating the easier days&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;that are here with no diapers and sleeping through the night.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;That was random and so is this video.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Last night Shawn took the kids to dinner so that I could&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;have a couple of hours to work on billing in silence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;I warned him the kids had played outside all day&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;and Hayden had not had a nap.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;I guess the following video is evidence of that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jSjKnC753UM" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-3314287329523235692?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/W1tg_JgBfXI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/3314287329523235692/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/02/embrace-camera-and-video.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/3314287329523235692" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/3314287329523235692" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/W1tg_JgBfXI/embrace-camera-and-video.html" title="Embrace the Camera and a Video" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail 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both; text-align: center;"&gt;We enjoyed yet another spring-like day here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I have been an Okie my whole life and cannot remember&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;such a warm winter! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;No one is complaining, I think we are all holding&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;our breath.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And now photo dump.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a 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imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zgObCr1yKpQ/TyneEa79UWI/AAAAAAAACuI/JWtcRRW-hjs/s640/valentines006.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yDON1KueWVg/TyneE-gIpRI/AAAAAAAACuQ/yMMQg9XhUP0/s1600/valentines007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="468" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yDON1KueWVg/TyneE-gIpRI/AAAAAAAACuQ/yMMQg9XhUP0/s640/valentines007.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy February!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-5624274483538162503?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' 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href="http://www.thewiegands.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Casey's blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and today we&amp;nbsp;get to blog about our new friend and what we received.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I got paired up with &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Gabby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; from &lt;a href="http://gabhidalgo.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;Games&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;She loves vintage, polka dots and her husband&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;to name a few! &amp;nbsp;I was so excited, I forgot to take a picture of the pink package! &amp;nbsp;I loved&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;everything she sent me and I don't think I have ever mentioned on my blog that my favorite color is pink, but somehow she knew! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My favorite gift is this big, light pink, vintage-y head band!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w2xqnLOCYKY/TyhfqJTANbI/AAAAAAAACro/2TnT5CXEBOg/s1600/collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="614" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w2xqnLOCYKY/TyhfqJTANbI/AAAAAAAACro/2TnT5CXEBOg/s640/collage.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And here is the rest of the goodies!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FH8TQINkXTM/TyhgHZM8pZI/AAAAAAAACrw/p4TPxBuCY9M/s1600/valentines001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FH8TQINkXTM/TyhgHZM8pZI/AAAAAAAACrw/p4TPxBuCY9M/s400/valentines001.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KEsY7E7LbEw/TyhgHsn0U0I/AAAAAAAACr4/aSEKJRTFJc8/s1600/valentines002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KEsY7E7LbEw/TyhgHsn0U0I/AAAAAAAACr4/aSEKJRTFJc8/s400/valentines002.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4UH7zsjwdDQ/TyhgH-mSQpI/AAAAAAAACsA/Jirs2aSsK_E/s1600/valentines003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4UH7zsjwdDQ/TyhgH-mSQpI/AAAAAAAACsA/Jirs2aSsK_E/s400/valentines003.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And I sent Gabby an 8X10 of my favorite print from &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/thewheatfield?ref=seller_info"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;The Wheatfield&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which you saw on my blog yesterday. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--_CUwy93hEc/Tyhga9p9-3I/AAAAAAAACsI/FB3itJItKtg/s1600/il_570xN.303518012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--_CUwy93hEc/Tyhga9p9-3I/AAAAAAAACsI/FB3itJItKtg/s320/il_570xN.303518012.jpg" width="255" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IJ3SRowZXA8/TyhgkjP13MI/AAAAAAAACsQ/1Jaa0PTFefs/s1600/thankyou.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="406" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IJ3SRowZXA8/TyhgkjP13MI/AAAAAAAACsQ/1Jaa0PTFefs/s640/thankyou.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-8114632126685882796?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/-iZQJvncEMU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/8114632126685882796/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/with-love-from-arizona.html#comment-form" title="5 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/8114632126685882796" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/8114632126685882796" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/-iZQJvncEMU/with-love-from-arizona.html" title="With Love From Arizona" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w2xqnLOCYKY/TyhfqJTANbI/AAAAAAAACro/2TnT5CXEBOg/s72-c/collage.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/with-love-from-arizona.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-4209970399305225076</id><published>2012-01-30T14:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T20:41:05.364-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Homeschool" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="encouragement" /><title type="text">Notes from my Notebook</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NNYG0DvuEMI/TycbRdROP2I/AAAAAAAACrg/TeIVn5WLFhs/s1600/il_570xN.303518012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NNYG0DvuEMI/TycbRdROP2I/AAAAAAAACrg/TeIVn5WLFhs/s400/il_570xN.303518012.jpg" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/thewheatfield?ref=seller_info"&gt;via&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I had an absolute fantastic time at the Winter Summit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It was exactly what I needed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I made wonderful new friends and came away with an even bigger&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;picture of Christ. &amp;nbsp;He is so big and so good, even in our failures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Definitely in our failures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So, I thought I would just share some statements from my&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;notebook that stood out to me from the many.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I want to find beauty in the sink,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;beauty in the suffering,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;beauty in the daily.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iMKy98ULNR0/TycbQ2mABEI/AAAAAAAACrY/WmTk7XPn0iE/s1600/il_570xN.280845931.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iMKy98ULNR0/TycbQ2mABEI/AAAAAAAACrY/WmTk7XPn0iE/s400/il_570xN.280845931.jpg" width="380" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/thewheatfield?ref=seller_info"&gt;via&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;When I look for glory in the moment I can slow down the current of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;life. &amp;nbsp;There is no joy and peace in hurry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Thanksgiving changes your basket that is never full enough to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;a basket that is overflowing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Before your child can ever read words they can read your heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Use visual prompts to connect with God as often as possible.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;{ex: let taking a shower remind you to pray that God would cleanse&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;your heart, when you get dressed visualize yourself being clothed in dignity.}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Look beyond your struggling child. &amp;nbsp;Is there a wounded spirit that needs to&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;be mended? &amp;nbsp;You should be a student of your child.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Teach your kids about emotions and take the time to train them how to&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;handle them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our children hear a lot of words, instructions, nagging from us. When you&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;can, use gestures instead of words. &amp;nbsp;Instead of telling them to put on their&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;jacket again, pick it up and hold it out for them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;What is the vision for your home? &amp;nbsp;Family is God's idea so what does he&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;say about it?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;He pulled Abraham (the father of all generations) out of his culture and&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;did something completely new.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;What is lacking in our society from our kids??&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1. the ability to have meaningful conversations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;2. the ability to problem solve (critical thinking).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;3. the ability to take risks. (they are sheltered from pain and failure).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;4. the ability to be concerned about principles rather than results.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our children should be getting their worldview around the dinner table&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and not from movies. &amp;nbsp;Our job is to discuss other worldviews with our children&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and not just shelter them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The truth that makes you free, will first make you angry. &amp;nbsp;---John Maxwell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thoughts create your emotions.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Disappointment is a choice.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Feelings are not truth.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As a mother of children, &lt;i&gt;all the interruptions&lt;/i&gt; ARE MOMENTS FROM GOD&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;AND NOT INTERRUPTIONS AT ALL.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;.....that homeschooling has led me to the foot of the cross - which is the&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;very best place for me to be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JiumhgTJGAA/TycbQQ1XrGI/AAAAAAAACrQ/kMUXg4Vn4Kk/s1600/il_570xN.190062194.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JiumhgTJGAA/TycbQQ1XrGI/AAAAAAAACrQ/kMUXg4Vn4Kk/s400/il_570xN.190062194.jpg" width="308" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/thewheatfield?ref=seller_info"&gt;via&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d9ead3;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #76a5af;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;{}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-4209970399305225076?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/scQ82pr-Xh4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" 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href="http://www.homeschoolwintersummit.com/Home1.aspx?Id=Home"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Homeschool Mom's Winter Summit 2012.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I am so excited to meet new people and be inspired.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And I looking forward to gaining some wisdom from homeschool&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;moms who have a lot of experience&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;under the belts!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This week I am thankful for the valley's of life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I feel like the Lord has personally led me out of the&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;valley in some areas of my life and now, from&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;the mountaintop, I can praise Him in a whole new way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-46RfLrFmsxE/TyLQebxtwDI/AAAAAAAACq4/cXkndvds8jE/s1600/photo-73.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-46RfLrFmsxE/TyLQebxtwDI/AAAAAAAACq4/cXkndvds8jE/s640/photo-73.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2oyHEwoxJ0/TyLQjNyJtDI/AAAAAAAACrA/QpAP7UuZAgI/s1600/photo-72.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2oyHEwoxJ0/TyLQjNyJtDI/AAAAAAAACrA/QpAP7UuZAgI/s640/photo-72.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And isn't my mom's new logo pretty awesome!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A very talented friend in our church blessed her with this&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and now she can't be stopped!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a 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href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/3A8unVjNR5U/winter-summit-2012.html" title="Winter Summit 2012" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-46RfLrFmsxE/TyLQebxtwDI/AAAAAAAACq4/cXkndvds8jE/s72-c/photo-73.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-summit-2012.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-7967031130154262458</id><published>2012-01-25T20:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T20:20:43.828-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="funny" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids" /><title type="text">Funny Stuff for a Thursday</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Since my last post was a little on the heavy side&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I thought I would lighten up the mood around here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So, I will share with you two things that made me laugh&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;today. &amp;nbsp;Out loud.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;First, I won't go into the whole, long funny story, but&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;my son was amazed at THE WALKING GRASS!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-feonVODnli8/TyDSL1StHMI/AAAAAAAACqE/iVOG_jVvwXQ/s1600/5214642_m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-feonVODnli8/TyDSL1StHMI/AAAAAAAACqE/iVOG_jVvwXQ/s400/5214642_m.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And yes, that would be a tumbleweed. &amp;nbsp;There were dozens of small&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;ones "walking" across the Sam's parking lot.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I will never look at another tumbleweed again without&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;giggling and thinking of my sweet boy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;_______________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And now you have to go read &lt;a href="http://www.reagansblob.com/2012/01/things-the-burgler-tookdidnt-take/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;this post&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Reagan is a hoot and it seriously made me laugh out loud.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have been reading Reagan's blog for well over a year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and am constantly inspired and reminded to be grateful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;as her and her husband live life with a young daughter who&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;has&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cerebro Costo Mandibular Syndrome.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Okay, well that is sad and this post was supposed to be funny so&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;now you definitely have to go read her post!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: 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/><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/funny-stuff-for-thursday.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-5381069450699134850</id><published>2012-01-25T06:44:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T08:47:12.766-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bible study" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="purpose" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mission" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="encouragement" /><title type="text">The Purpose of Life, My Take</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-JcUpJboJf8A/TyAVZImn0RI/AAAAAAAACp0/Xft_Bn0IQXY/bloggerPlus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-JcUpJboJf8A/TyAVZImn0RI/AAAAAAAACp0/Xft_Bn0IQXY/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This past weekend Shawn and I really sought the Lord&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;as to what he has for us - our mission.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is what we know. &amp;nbsp;God is a God of purpose and order.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Yes, we trust in him moment by moment but he&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;created each of us in a unique way so that we may be used&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;in His kingdom, for His glory, and to build &lt;i&gt;His&lt;/i&gt; Church.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So often we think of the Church as a whole unit, which in&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;one sense it is, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;but you and I are really the Church&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We do not go to church. &amp;nbsp;The Church goes to a building&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and has meetings. &amp;nbsp;This was a huge game-changer for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Are you still there? &amp;nbsp;Probably not. The posts that don't have&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;great pictures or a DIY project tutorial aren't very popular.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But I pray you read the next part.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So then, building the Church means a maturing, a growing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;up of all the individuals that make up the &lt;i&gt;church&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Paul writes to the Galatians 4:19, "My dear children, for&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;because I am perplexed about you!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Paul knew that the Lord could not use spiritual babies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;He needs those who have gone further, that have gone through&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;real experiences &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;with the Lord&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, who have been transformed!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Then we can be used as living stones and train up others in the same way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;That is discipleship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;There is a kingdom to be built, there is work to do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Are we working? &amp;nbsp;Or are we passively living our lives as if tomorrow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;is a promise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So, our mission? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;_________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We want to encourage others to fight the good fight.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To fight against spiritual apathy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We want to fight against the numbing effects of our culture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;To be used to open up the eyes of the blind to see&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;the eternal purpose of God.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We want to be a part of saving marriages,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;to see legacy's changed for generations to come. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We want to see a city, a state, a nation of believers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;who walk around in the power and authority that&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;they have been given and have been &lt;i&gt;trained&lt;/i&gt; to use&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;to fight agains the spiritual powers and principalities. (Eph. 6:12)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Basically, we want to go big or go home! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Have you sought the Lord's purpose for your life?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;That question is overwhelming for most.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It was for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is what the Lord showed me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Start with your marriage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is where &lt;i&gt;a lot&lt;/i&gt; of training and maturing for the Lord's work&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;takes place! &amp;nbsp;9 years into it I can say Amen to that!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img height="427" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lsp6FLXEYiI/TyAVZUkSoOI/AAAAAAAACp8/nq_aURl6WHM/bloggerPlus.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;all things, holding promise &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;for both the present life and the&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;life to come."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1 Timothy 4:8&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!&lt;br /&gt;And check out Shawn's post over at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://behindacounselorsdoor.blogspot.com/"&gt;Behind a Counselor's Door&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Linking up &lt;a href="http://somedaycrafts.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and here,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://michellelunt.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="144" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ACVOyFgsn-E/TPXIRsxiPEI/AAAAAAAAA94/sgEpB6F9j58/s144/faith%2Ctrust%2Cpixiedustbutton.png" width="131" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-5381069450699134850?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/GMaDW6lhAFM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/5381069450699134850/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.html#comment-form" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/5381069450699134850" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/5381069450699134850" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/GMaDW6lhAFM/blog-post.html" title="The Purpose of Life, My Take" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-JcUpJboJf8A/TyAVZImn0RI/AAAAAAAACp0/Xft_Bn0IQXY/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-7660208079175235054</id><published>2012-01-23T21:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T21:34:45.202-08:00</updated><title type="text">Road Trip</title><content type="html"> &lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='center'&gt;Shawn and I had a great trip. I had forgotten what it was like to only be responsible for feeding my own mouth, blowing my own nose and wiping my own.... you know for more than 12 hours. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The NYLO hotel was great, conference was great, Dallas is great and my company was perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='center' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh4.ggpht.com/-gJSD2SE3cbY/Tx5Cxh2bCNI/AAAAAAAACpM/0WNq9zPNdaQ/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='center' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh4.ggpht.com/-DhwG2T-p1h4/Tx5CysKvK0I/AAAAAAAACpU/If66dG55RwI/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='center'&gt;And what says road trip more than a trashed out floor board?&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='center' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/-f_5VZooF4X0/Tx5C87so0bI/AAAAAAAACpc/J2HvC8Ts5WY/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='center'&gt;{minus the Bible, not trash}&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And both kids are now sick.&lt;br&gt;But at least I'm not sick. Anymore.&lt;br&gt;Happy Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-7660208079175235054?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/Cg78t__HpBw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/7660208079175235054/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/road-trip.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/7660208079175235054" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/7660208079175235054" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/Cg78t__HpBw/road-trip.html" title="Road Trip" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-gJSD2SE3cbY/Tx5Cxh2bCNI/AAAAAAAACpM/0WNq9zPNdaQ/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/road-trip.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-3204637194802305535</id><published>2012-01-19T11:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T11:40:39.085-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids" /><title type="text">Conversations</title><content type="html">As I said, I definitely wanted to highlight some of the conversation I had with my 3 (almost 4 year old boy-I cannot believe it) year old. &amp;nbsp;Since Shawn and I are leaving them for the weekend we decided to have a date night this week. &amp;nbsp;Shawn took Berklee out and Hayden took me out. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6N1KzTKKRgI/Txhw5_A12uI/AAAAAAAACoI/Dr9GVNMu3go/s1600/Date+Night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6N1KzTKKRgI/Txhw5_A12uI/AAAAAAAACoI/Dr9GVNMu3go/s400/Date+Night.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Funny thing about this picture is that I thought he was smiling for the camera&lt;br /&gt;but he just couldn't wait. So when I looked at my phone I laughed for a while. :)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our kids are currently in a Freddy's phase big time so I took Hayden to Freddy's and he got his own burger, fries, sprite and his very first dirt-n-worms. &amp;nbsp;We sat at the really tall table with the spinning bar stools and talked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jya902nFH1k/TxhwToGWR7I/AAAAAAAACnw/JaAcNQcIfyE/s1600/photo-69.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jya902nFH1k/TxhwToGWR7I/AAAAAAAACnw/JaAcNQcIfyE/s320/photo-69.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me: Hayden what do you think you want to be when you grow up?&lt;br /&gt;H: A daddy.&lt;br /&gt;Me: Oh, that's nice. &amp;nbsp;How many kids do you think you'll have?&lt;br /&gt;H: 3 boys.&lt;br /&gt;Me: And there names?&lt;br /&gt;H: Fred, Fred, and Freddy.&lt;br /&gt;Me: And your wife's name?&lt;br /&gt;H: Tanda!&lt;br /&gt;Melt my heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;H: Mom, could you tell me about the top of my head? &amp;nbsp;I never get to see that part of my&lt;br /&gt;body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;H: Mom, is that man singing about Sara? (the station in Freddy's was playing 80's and 90's hits).&lt;br /&gt;Me: Yes, he is saying Sara.&lt;br /&gt;H: I bet she is an angel.&lt;br /&gt;Me: Maybe. &amp;nbsp;Not really sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;H: Mom, do you think an Stegosaurus could beat a T-Rex?&lt;br /&gt;Me: Hmmmm.&lt;br /&gt;H: Do you think an Allosaurus could beat a Triceratops?&lt;br /&gt;Me: I don't know.&lt;br /&gt;H: Do you think a Diplodocus could beat a Spinosaurus?&lt;br /&gt;H: Do you think a Brachiosaurus could beat a Gigantasaurus?&lt;br /&gt;(I am zoning out here, it went on for a while...........)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, he was so cute and we had a fantastic time at Barnes and Noble&lt;br /&gt;afterward where I &lt;strike&gt;had&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;nbsp;got&amp;nbsp;to read through a Dinosaur Encyclopedia and a Star Wars&lt;br /&gt;Encyclopedia type book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euUy01jMWrc/TxhwrbWNujI/AAAAAAAACn4/T8794NKsSuQ/s1600/photo-70.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euUy01jMWrc/TxhwrbWNujI/AAAAAAAACn4/T8794NKsSuQ/s640/photo-70.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berklee had a great time with daddy too. &amp;nbsp;They are what I call two peas in a pod.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEQvPmpf5QE/TxhwyiInV6I/AAAAAAAACoA/V-A-8WL2VC4/s1600/photo-71.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEQvPmpf5QE/TxhwyiInV6I/AAAAAAAACoA/V-A-8WL2VC4/s400/photo-71.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting ready to hit the road with my man.&lt;br /&gt;Have a great weekend!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-3204637194802305535?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/-EAhPfSX9Ik" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/3204637194802305535/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/conversations.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/3204637194802305535" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/3204637194802305535" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/-EAhPfSX9Ik/conversations.html" title="Conversations" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6N1KzTKKRgI/Txhw5_A12uI/AAAAAAAACoI/Dr9GVNMu3go/s72-c/Date+Night.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/conversations.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-8780192724713138134</id><published>2012-01-18T20:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T05:54:12.440-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Recipe" /><title type="text">My day and 2 Recipes</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;I really enjoy my big, fancy camera but blogging from my phone saves so much time.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9KLYOUuRz2E/TxehXrMPB6I/AAAAAAAACng/y0-F03kFDqE/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;The kids started gymnastics this morning. They loved it and did great!&lt;br /&gt;We went to Metro, which is further from our house than Dynamo but metro has homeschool classes in the middle of the day so it doesn't have to take up an evening and they can go at the same time! Bonus baby!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-EMYgnPFoooE/TxehUtxVBSI/AAAAAAAACnA/2RGtcYRJZj8/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;Made 2 pans of &lt;a href="http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/cheesy-chicken-and-rice-bake/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yummy recipe for&lt;br /&gt;our fellowship on Sunday, except I used shredded rotisserie chicken&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;instead of chicken breasts. We go to&lt;br /&gt;a home church and each family rotates bringing a meal.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;We just celebrated 1 year of meeting together with some amazing people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;Maybe more on that later. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-GoRVEqA8XII/TxehW42E04I/AAAAAAAACnY/4grTqaNNnSw/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;Made &lt;a href="http://www.feedingmytemple.com/2012/01/skinny-pizza-rolls.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; crowd-pleasing recipe tonight! It was my first time t&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;o use won ton wraps and I loved them!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-KCjmGHjwP7w/TxehV6ZDVuI/AAAAAAAACnQ/_MqRC2YjphM/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;The kids are really into games right now so this is what we&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;do most nights before quiet time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-KRd-KRMyRfI/TxehYGghojI/AAAAAAAACno/GOgsbZ5LkLo/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;I had a cup of coffee tonight so I could finish the following.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-fgO46cstlIE/TxehVfAZffI/AAAAAAAACnI/80RiZf3uo74/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;Happy Wednesday!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-8780192724713138134?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/G_CxyeBdKkY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/8780192724713138134/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-day-and-2-recipes.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/8780192724713138134" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/8780192724713138134" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/G_CxyeBdKkY/my-day-and-2-recipes.html" title="My day and 2 Recipes" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9KLYOUuRz2E/TxehXrMPB6I/AAAAAAAACng/y0-F03kFDqE/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-day-and-2-recipes.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-7419523438396011347</id><published>2012-01-18T07:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T07:39:34.516-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hayden" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wordless Wednesday" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Kids" /><title type="text">Date Night {Wordless Wednesday}</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;There will be more to come from this date because the conversations were priceless.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o8ATML1JJeM/Txbk0l3vyjI/AAAAAAAACm4/Yavii9Qp9tU/s1600/Date+Night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o8ATML1JJeM/Txbk0l3vyjI/AAAAAAAACm4/Yavii9Qp9tU/s640/Date+Night.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Linking up with &lt;a href="http://liveandloveoutloud.com/"&gt;Live and Love Out Loud&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://thepapermama.com/"&gt;The Paper Mama&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;amp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://andthen-shesnapped.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="and then, she {snapped}" src="http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j52/drexgal/and%20then%20she%20snapped/word2s.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://naptimemomtog.com/category/wordless-wednesday/" target="_blank" title="NapTime MomTog "&gt;&lt;img alt="NapTime MomTog" src="http://naptimemomtog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/wordlesswednesday-copy.jpg" style="border: none;" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://thedailywyatt.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://i841.photobucket.com/albums/zz337/Dailywyatt/wednesdaybutton.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-7419523438396011347?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/I-P6qOvvBF0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/7419523438396011347/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-first-date-wordless-wednesday.html#comment-form" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/7419523438396011347" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/7419523438396011347" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/I-P6qOvvBF0/our-first-date-wordless-wednesday.html" title="Date Night {Wordless Wednesday}" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o8ATML1JJeM/Txbk0l3vyjI/AAAAAAAACm4/Yavii9Qp9tU/s72-c/Date+Night.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-first-date-wordless-wednesday.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-680210308536739482</id><published>2012-01-18T06:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T07:40:07.187-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Random" /><title type="text">Random Tuesday Photos</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;It's been a while since I've had a random post! Lots of pictures and memories to record on this little blog today!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ZeWcWoJ_abw/TxbYSPu5tII/AAAAAAAACmI/qmG70F7kzDE/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;We had some more amazing weather for January over the weekend. So we, of course, took advantage of it and went fishing in a mud hole! Berklee looked so cute, she had to go potty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-iheajmUWDvs/TxbYUp6u4kI/AAAAAAAACmo/UBN9owhztP4/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uFiM3DJqRQE/TxbYRT_Yc5I/AAAAAAAACmA/x4r2ozLtE4g/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;We have a massage table that has saved us a lot if $$$$ and is a great way to bless each other. Now the kids have discovered the wonderfullness of getting a massage! Oh boy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-KBn5c3Jovoo/TxbYS6xaLqI/AAAAAAAACmY/RLXZrByIqzU/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-cJjHdolMAAU/TxbYTzeNiYI/AAAAAAAACmg/FFYEg5orRdY/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;We told them to close their eyes and rest and I looked back and saw what looks like a prayer session! So cute. The new car has brought them closer, literally!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-p5njQJmv-h0/TxbYQqiV6mI/AAAAAAAACl4/8VX9nUlQ4uE/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;Yummy chicken tortilla soup recipe I found on Tasty Kitchen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-9aysFYJjQTM/TxbYSbb0ULI/AAAAAAAACmQ/_53OXsOv7QM/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;Berklee painting at Classical Conversations. This semester they are learning about fine arts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-oqKMmcTDjfg/TxbYVREZsFI/AAAAAAAACmw/GgDVmVKFwIA/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"&gt;And lastly Shawn and I are getting to go to Dallas this weekend for half business and half anniversary. One of the nights we are staying at the NYLO. Looks pretty awesome! We haven't taken a trip overnight by ourselves since the kids were born!! Holy guacamole!!! (as Skippy John Jones would say)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-680210308536739482?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/9YCRSQ_oj-o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/680210308536739482/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/random-tuesday-photos.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/680210308536739482" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/680210308536739482" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/9YCRSQ_oj-o/random-tuesday-photos.html" title="Random Tuesday Photos" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ZeWcWoJ_abw/TxbYSPu5tII/AAAAAAAACmI/qmG70F7kzDE/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/random-tuesday-photos.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-6259818353468200670</id><published>2012-01-13T09:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T10:23:22.351-08:00</updated><title type="text">InstaFriday</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BGd2ZIO0J-0/TxBwZQNU4SI/AAAAAAAAClU/1f7nT26S9Us/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Celebrating 9 years.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2t_oJkdqja4/TxBwalHItMI/AAAAAAAAClk/nzFfCDX2U8k/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ice cream and $1 movie day!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g-fMVR10yP0/TxBQmk_D6cI/AAAAAAAACks/_yI3-BUKW34/s1600/valentine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g-fMVR10yP0/TxBQmk_D6cI/AAAAAAAACks/_yI3-BUKW34/s640/valentine.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It doesn't take much sometimes to impress my bunch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This was one of those super easy projects that was a complete hit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My husband thinks I can do anything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;{Really, sweety, all it involved was two types of glue.}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But I'll let him think I am super woman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SgKlq8wbW6Q/TxBQn8EmfUI/AAAAAAAACk0/_mG0AvUQiJQ/s1600/valentine2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SgKlq8wbW6Q/TxBQn8EmfUI/AAAAAAAACk0/_mG0AvUQiJQ/s640/valentine2.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I saw this idea&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.andersonfamilycrew.blogspot.com/2012/01/valentines-day-diy.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;here&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and ran to Target to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;get my $1 section mailboxes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UOId903ZadE/TxBQoPDvJCI/AAAAAAAACk8/VSmX4ErxQYU/s1600/valentines3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UOId903ZadE/TxBQoPDvJCI/AAAAAAAACk8/VSmX4ErxQYU/s640/valentines3.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;You need candlesticks, gorilla glue, and whatever decor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;you choose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Friday!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fingerprintsonthefridge.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x134/Rczuk0818/fyfbutton.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-7553909666536310147?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/c9-AB8EDLm8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/7553909666536310147/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/valentines-day-diy.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/7553909666536310147" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/7553909666536310147" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/c9-AB8EDLm8/valentines-day-diy.html" title="Valentine's Day DIY" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g-fMVR10yP0/TxBQmk_D6cI/AAAAAAAACks/_yI3-BUKW34/s72-c/valentine.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/valentines-day-diy.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-2214394846043143434</id><published>2012-01-12T10:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T10:26:12.130-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tutorials" /><title type="text">Coffee Filter Wreath Tutorial</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I am re-posting this tutorial because after almost&lt;br /&gt;over a year, I still love my wreath!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9g4zafvgI/AAAAAAAABKY/seZsmEaGt1A/s1600/wreathfianl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252595679280642" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9g4zafvgI/AAAAAAAABKY/seZsmEaGt1A/s640/wreathfianl.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" width="427" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;So here is the wreath tutorial.  I got this great idea from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thenester.com/2010/11/making-a-coffee-filter-wreath-and-tree-and-things-of-that-nature.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Nester&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;But &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I will say that I accidentally made an improvement &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;to The Nester's project.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Here is what you need.  And here is where my improvement &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;came in. The Nester used a packaged wood/like wreath &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;but all I had was a styrofoam one in the craft/linen/christmas gift closet.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;When I was showing off the beaut to my friend after I was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;finished she suggested that I could stick different holiday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;or floral picks in the wreath for each holiday or season! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252495831423250" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9gy_c6WRI/AAAAAAAABJw/EFW6I38qSaQ/s400/wreath1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;So fold your coffee filter in half like so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252501559790162" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9gzUyqSlI/AAAAAAAABJ4/bDw-hmcSuuA/s400/wreath2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;And then in half again like so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252503812225186" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9gzdLruKI/AAAAAAAABKA/d4ryS5KFjoc/s400/wreath3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Now a dab of glue will do ya.  I put mine pretty close together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252506756782850" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9gzoJuGwI/AAAAAAAABKI/u_PZSb5i9r0/s400/wreath4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252515430415282" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9g0IdrO7I/AAAAAAAABKQ/zTqpTsgrxnM/s400/wreath5.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;It doesn't have to be perfect!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n4EOLTAnY6w/Tw8ljWKhn8I/AAAAAAAACkk/Q2Tqrkz4WLs/s1600/photo-66.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n4EOLTAnY6w/Tw8ljWKhn8I/AAAAAAAACkk/Q2Tqrkz4WLs/s400/photo-66.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Happy Thursday!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AZizAOg3_OU/Tw7uzOGBJlI/AAAAAAAACkE/V9oQpXtEuqw/s1600/trees001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="305" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AZizAOg3_OU/Tw7uzOGBJlI/AAAAAAAACkE/V9oQpXtEuqw/s320/trees001.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Word says that Jesus is the bread of life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Life&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Isn't that what we are all striving for in all of our pursuits?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I confess that I have been detached for a few weeks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Detached in my time with the Lord,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;detached when my husband comes home for work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If you have been a Christian for very long you&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;know the -desert- place I'm in.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not really hearing or feeling, anything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;No&lt;i&gt; life&lt;/i&gt; really.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Praise God he is still there even when we don't&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;feel&lt;/i&gt; anything.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Yesterday, out of the blue, I felt like he&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;asked me if I was hungry for bread?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The world offers you a feast.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I offer you bread.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;He spoke to my heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;He knows me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I had to confess that no, lately I have not&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;been hungry for bread, for Him, for His word.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But I have not remembered that these&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;are&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If I am filling my life too much with the feast&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;then I will &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; that I am full.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;But I am deceived. &amp;nbsp;Malnourished.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Only the bread can satisfy. &amp;nbsp;He is the bread.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I will not be satisfied with any other thing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Everything else is like a diet Coke.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Full of empty calories. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"Blessed are those who hunger&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and thirst for righteousness,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;for they will be filled." ......Matthew 5:6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5561092701455611770-5375362288403843584?l=themaguirehouse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~4/dCpHPPc9_Sc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/feeds/5375362288403843584/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-life.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/5375362288403843584" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5561092701455611770/posts/default/5375362288403843584" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YSZPv/~3/dCpHPPc9_Sc/thoughts-on-life.html" title="........Thoughts on Life........" /><author><name>Tanda</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="33" height="16" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GbXFp7QbaLU/Tvj1asbK6PI/AAAAAAAACQQ/ZAv31CR1MeI/s220/IMG_1546_5280.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AZizAOg3_OU/Tw7uzOGBJlI/AAAAAAAACkE/V9oQpXtEuqw/s72-c/trees001.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-life.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561092701455611770.post-579213127938384172</id><published>2012-01-11T11:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T11:09:20.783-08:00</updated><title type="text">You {&amp;} Me</title><content type="html"> &lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='center'&gt;Happy Anniversary Mr. Maguire!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_image_section'&gt;&lt;div class='bloggerplus_image_section' align='center' &gt;&lt;img src='http://lh3.ggpht.com/-fOQKd3AwEuE/Tw3eXqkX7sI/AAAAAAAACj8/u-DpBZGRLuw/bloggerPlus.jpg' &gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='bloggerplus_text_section' align='center'&gt;We had only known each other 3 months when this picture was taken. &lt;br&gt;I'm positive we had lots of doubters in the audience that day. &lt;br&gt;We had a peace and we went with that.  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