Forty Before Forty
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Getting professional photos done of our family was something I included on my Thirty Before Thirty list. While I did mark it as accomplished on a technicality, it wasn’t really what I had envisioned. We got our family photo taken with Jeremy Renner at a ComicCon in San Jose, and went home with a nice…
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There is an awkwardly shaped wall in our living room, sandwiched between two open entries into said room. Part of this wall is cut on a diagonal on one side because our staircase is on the other side. I am sitting here on my front porch struggling to describe this wall. Regardless of my lack…
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I bought some crochet hooks and a beautiful blue yarn several years ago now, in one of my many let’s-try-a-new-hobby phases. My Mom assisted me via online chats, and I got a strand of crocheted yarn completed but that is about it. It’s tacked to the pin board in my room to remind me I…
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The kids and I attempted a backyard picnic last summer. I made my son and I chicken salad on croissants, and my chicken-salad-hating daughter made her own pizza croissant. On the side I gave each of us apple slices and some blueberry pie flavoured Oreos to try. Each of us had a different drink that…
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The Hard Way (ie: How I Learned Everything) is the title, and subheading, I gave to the book I wrote for my kids. This endeavor was something I actually started writing for my kids as my project for NaNoWriMo in 2024. I met the word goal at the end of that November but still had…
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I was inspired by a series of still life paintings that an artist I follow on Instagram posted. She staged some of her favourite items for each one, and the results were wonderful and whimsical. I didn’t particularly enjoy painting still life scenes in high school, but being able to select my own items and…
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I received the final car in my attempted rainbow of pastel colours! When I first added the challenge of finding a HotWheels or Matchbox car in pastel orange, pastel yellow, pastel green, pastel blue, pastel purple and pastel pink, I didn’t think it would be too difficult. I was mistaken. Purple, green and orange were…
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Admittedly, my motivation to finish the Forty Before Forty challenge I set for myself has been dying a slow death. I have tried to remain optimistic about completing the remaining items, despite my husband’s unemployment woes and the dwindling savings we have been living off of. However, our family has reached the point where we…
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My daughter is a huge fan of the Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland. At first she was only able to get her hands on one novel every few months or so, but as soon as she got her hands on the rest of the books that were available up to that point,…
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I tried a new-to-me fruit on January 25, 2025. Why has it taken me so long to write about it? Well, as I mentioned in my post about hanging a pegboard in my art room, at the time I didn’t think the result of my attempt was good enough. The fruit wasn’t exotic enough, it…