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March 10th, 2010

Kids in the Kitchen: Wordless

It’s almost here, 4 Moms, 35 Kids starts tomorrow.

More Wordless Wednesdays to laugh at.

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March 8th, 2010

Table Manners

If you’ve been reading Raising Olives for long you’ve probably gotten that we try to be purposeful in why we do, what we do.  We try to hold to God’s Word as our standard for everything and we try to communicate these values to our children.

Twelve year old Kaitlin to eight year old Carter.  “The [...]

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March 1st, 2010

Preschoolers in Church and Coming Soon

This Sunday I stayed home from church with some sick children (Amber 13, Matthew 10 and Carter 8).   When Mark and the rest of the children returned home we sat down and ate lunch and discussed the service with our children.

Mark mentioned that during the sermon Colby had asked “Dad, what’s he saying?” a few [...]

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February 15th, 2010

Not Me Monday: Pirates and Grubs

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As we were eating our dinner of chicken, vegetables and brown rice on Wednesday one of the children did not say, “Mom, it looks like there is a worm in my rice.”

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February 8th, 2010

Not Me Monday

Don’t forget to link up your 90 Day Challenge post here and at Mom’s Toolbox.I have not considered dedicating a whole blog post to some of the odd things that I pull out of the washing machine paper diapers (yuck), acorns, rocks, shells, fistfuls of mud, pens, crayons, batteries, balls, a walkie talkie, remote control, [...]

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