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6.06.2007

goals meme

and now Suzanne has something to say about belly-button lint

My goodness. It's just raining memes around here. NYC Teacher tagged me for the summer goals meme.

The Summer Goals Meme will consist of 10-15 professional and or personal goals that you would like to achieve over the summer.

Summer Goals
1. learn to make cheese
2. take children strawberry and blueberry picking
3. go swimming very often
4. eat lots of home-grown heirloom tomatoes
5. have my fall Research Writing class fully prepped by the end of June
6. make progress on manuscript
7. make lots of jam
8. weed south flower garden at least once
9. stay home a lot
10. get children to at least one week of VBS
11. declutter upstairs
12. procure firewood for winter
13. continue with making own bread and yogurt
14. slog through the ToDo table (returns, etc.)
15. go to Darrington Bluegrass festival

Tags:
Kim at Hiraeth
Susan at Chicken Spagetti
Cloudscome at a wrung sponge
Rhonda at Worth the Wait
Esther at Crowned with Laurel
Tricia at Room to Grow
Debbie at Family Reunion

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Here I chatter about books, parenting, election 2008, recipes, teaching college writing, and the adventures of getting settled in with our two freshly (Fall 06) adopted school-age children from Russia. This blog is chapter two; chapter one is posted at Jamie & Suzanne go to Russia. I live in the City of Subdued Excitement, Cascadia, Land of the Free.

I am the wife of a man I call My Gift from a Generous God. I am mama to two lovely children, Dandy and Chickadee that became ours in September 2006 in a court-room in Siberia. I am the daughter of two people whom I love and admire. One of them, my dad, is a new (Dec 06) paraplegic.

In my previous life (B.C. - before children), I was a college English teacher, specializing in composition and ESL composition.

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