All posts by Danielle Huddleston

Happenings

Nick had been so busy working on projects around the house for me!

We are moving the boys to the room where we keep all of the legos and it needed a few modifications to make it work.

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He put in an exterior steel door in place of the screen one.

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He also added a top bunk to the existing bed/couch out there!

I am so blessed to have a husband that can ask what I want and build it!

We will hopefully get the boys moved in this week!

So my 1150sq ft house has 4 bedrooms now, which I think is pretty awesome.

snake

We had a little visitor to the garden.

Since he is not venomous, I told him he could stay.

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The crazy amount of rain we got made my peas go crazy!

This is my first year trying them and they took over!

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The boys were pretty excited about eating so many sugar snaps and snow peas.

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We have had so many they are not even getting eaten!

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morning

Morning Glories are still trying to take over everything.

When the summer heat tries to kill everything I am always thankful these guys are around so it looks like I can keep something alive.

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I decided to plant some of the ones that popped up in my garden in my window box.

That way when I forget to water them I did not waist my money…

Anyone else forget to water their window boxes?

I am the worst about it when it rains!

Because I should not have to water things after it rained.

I will rig a self watering system one of these days.

11th Anniversary

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It’s funny too me how important dates are early on.

You need to celebrate on that exact date or maybe you aren’t married after all?

I understand that some people still really like to celebrate on the exact date for things but I have realized recently that dates don’t mean as much to me.

Moments do.

 

This year we did not really plan anything for our anniversary.

Life happened.

Beautiful, amazing, everyday life.

The one I dreamed about before I met Nick and was having a lonely moment.

I would rather enjoy this everyday life then stress about making the day stand out and be different.

 

Maybe we go on a hike tomorrow or go to a festival, maybe not.

I will still enjoy spending the weekend with this analytical, caring, amazing man.

I am so thankful for 11yrs of growing stronger together.

I am blessed.

Saint George, Dragons, and King Arthur

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I really liked the story of Saint George and the Dragon!

Such an interesting story to add to our history study and a great way to get ready for the middle ages!

I liked that Hunt for the Devil’s Dragon (AIO Imagination Station Books)
and Saint George and the Dragon
where different versions of the same story.

I like the boys to see that history can be told many different ways and that stories change as they are retold.

We studied dragons with the idea that they might be storiesĀ  based on dinosaurs.

If you believe that God created all of creation at the same time and that it was not billions of years ago that dinosaurs existed then it stands to reason that people might have seen some before most were killed or died off.

And if I saw a dinosaur I would probably talk about it a lot and the story would be retold.

Of course I would want the monster I killed to the biggest and meanest, maybe it might grow into something that looks more like fantasy then reality.

I find discussing controversial history with my boys to be the best way to learn.

I always ask, “why do you think that?” when they jump at the easy, popular opinion.

They are quick to realize that they were just spitting out what they had heard and they have nothing to back it up.

Answers in Genesis has an interesting video on their site about what might have happened to the dinosaurs, here.

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King Arthur was actually set in Britain before the middle ages were in full swing.

You can listen to what they would have really sounded like during his time, here.

I read about an article about all the fuss about who King Arthur really was and why do we even care.

Should we even learn about him, he probably never even existed, was there a point?

As a mom of boys I love what he stands for.

He is a king that makes little boys want to save the day, do what is right, and treat people fairly.

That seems like a good enough reason to me.

Also, I am a firm believer that stories come from somewhere.

If a story shows up over and over and will not die, maybe that story is based on something that really happened.

Why not debate an interesting story?

Sounds like a good opportunity to get kids interested in history and literature to me!