Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Dec 14, 2009, 8:02 am
That's what I have. Things aren't as simple as just walking away from ten years of my life and not looking back. The relationships formed cannot all just be severed. Nor does one REALLY want ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Dec 9, 2009, 9:13 am
As I sit here contemplating life and how it brings waves that carry us through the ups and downs, I started thinking about some of the ups of 2009. I asked Steve and the boys the other night what thei...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Dec 8, 2009, 7:42 pm
Last year I did an entire post about all of the different nativity sets in our home. It has always been a special thing to see the kids not just look at the Nativity sets, but actually interact with t...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Dec 7, 2009, 7:20 am
I know most people think of the Christmas tree as just one more ornament to decorate one's house at Christmas. And I do too to a certain extent. But last year, when we were struggling to make it ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Dec 1, 2009, 9:56 pm

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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Dec 1, 2009, 8:44 am
I haven't done a T13 in quite awhile, but it is definitely on my mind today. As we said our final farewells at church last Sunday, and after just getting off the phone from a farewell call from th...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 30, 2009, 6:30 am
You know the kids are playing with all their might when they come away from the fun worse for the wear. Well...not really. Both kids managed to secure small "ouchies" during the family celebrations ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 29, 2009, 8:19 pm
So I have so much to tell you about that has happened since my last post. But I'm going to pace myself. I'll start with the newest Santa thoughts in the Wheelz home. I have been quite convin...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 24, 2009, 6:15 am
So everyone knows that Steve and I are "Christmas People." We love the holidays and get so excited about it every year. We even got married four days before Christmas and love going out for our annive...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 23, 2009, 11:11 am
It was definitely a busy day yesterday. After a pretty lazy Saturday where we pretty much did nothing, yesterday was a flurry of activity, with emotional highs and lows. Church yesterday morning was ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 21, 2009, 2:54 pm
I cannot be completely frank on this, as one should be able to on a blog, since there may still be some lurkers who found this blog after the move. But it is finally time to share why these last few w...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 18, 2009, 7:30 pm
...for just ONE nice picture of two good looking boys sitting in front of a pretty tree smiling? The boys got to sing with Steve at the local Botanical Gardens Wednesday night. It was so beautifully ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 18, 2009, 9:07 am
Are 3D movies for the entertainment of the viewer? OR... the entertainment of the non-viewers who get to see how silly the viewers look? just wondering...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 10, 2009, 7:11 am
Don't you just hate posts that bring more questions than answers? We'll, this is one of them. Today's Tuesday Tackle is something that I can't share until next week. But I will tell ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 8, 2009, 7:53 pm
I have no pictures to share with you from our weekend. You wanna know why? Because Indian Summer hit West Michigan this weekend and we spent literally the entire weekend outside. You could not have a...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 5, 2009, 7:35 am
r For several years now, I have been wishing for an alternative to trick or treating on Halloween. Most of the houses in our area don't participate, so it ends up being more walking and freezing ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 4, 2009, 7:33 am

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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 3, 2009, 7:17 am
Just like most of the population around here, we took advantage of a BEAUTIFUL Sunday afternoon this weekend and got our yard raked up. We always have to do two attempts, since our tree dumps leaves s...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Nov 1, 2009, 6:24 pm
Yup, I'm bringing it back this week. We kept pretty busy this weekend, even though as I sit here, I have no idea what we did. Several of these I will be elaborating on later, but here's our we...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 28, 2009, 6:44 am

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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 27, 2009, 6:36 am
At first glance, one would read this sweet little note from Noah and say "AWWWW!" "My mom is so cool that I want to hug her. She is awesome. The end." But, now, look again and see if you can figure ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 25, 2009, 4:19 pm
It's likely to take the entire week to share our weekend. I don't know when October became an entire month of birthday festivities for Aaron, but he sure did love every moment of it. And show...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 24, 2009, 7:53 am
You were two days late, taking your own sweet time. And then you got here and gave us all a big scare. But then everything was okay and we were free to fall in love with you. And we did. Head over h...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 22, 2009, 7:26 am
As I was preparing to write a nice little Happy Birthday post for Aaron, I thought I would do his birth story in T13 style. But then I had a strange feeling it had been done, and sure enough I did it ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 21, 2009, 7:20 am
When I drooped Aaron off at school on Monday, there was a third grade teacher in the hall saying, "I only have two kids in my classroom today". I knew things were looking bleak for Tuesday. Which was...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 14, 2009, 7:54 am
About a year and a half ago, I posted a video of my son Aaron reading. I have been worried about his speech his entire life. I asked for some feedback wondering if others could understand him, since...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 11, 2009, 7:12 pm
I decided that I have to bring back the Weekend Top Five this week. It was just such a busy and fun filled weekend. Here were the things that we will remember from the weekend 5. Birthday with my Mo...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 8, 2009, 7:23 am
This post is in two parts (sort of). It begins with a double bathroom problem, and ends with Noah's first grounding. If you're interested, I invite you to read on... When we first bought our...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 5, 2009, 7:24 am
It was a rainy weekend. It followed a rainy week. We had planned to spend our Sunday downtown looking at all of the art from ArtPrize. ArtPrize is a competition that is currently happening in Downtown...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Oct 3, 2009, 9:32 pm
"If your kid doesn't eat, let him go hungry." How many times have I heard this comment made to me? Too many. And I SO wish that I had the luxury of following that rule. You may not think of it a...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 30, 2009, 12:15 pm
After returning home from Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs last week, Noah decided to get right to work building his own lab in the back yard. He has asked for his own toolbox full of tools for Chri...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 29, 2009, 7:21 am
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Life has just kind of taken over and I don't seem to be getting things back in order as quickly as I would like. Every day I seem to have four hours worth of t...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 25, 2009, 8:37 am
So we were blessed last weekend with someone who was looking to get rid of their Wii system, complete with Wii Fit for a ridiculously low price and we took advantage of it. Needless to say, I'm a...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 22, 2009, 8:57 am
Yup, it's the first day of Fall. The time when the weather turns cooler, we get to break out all of the new long sleeve school clothes we got and put way all of the grungy short sleeve stuff we...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 18, 2009, 8:18 am
After several attempts through the last couple of years at allowance, I think we finally have it figured out. And I could not be more pleased with how it is going. I am familiar with a lot of differ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 15, 2009, 11:13 am
As I sit here, I have just drooped Aaron off at school and am looking around the house at everything I should be doing in the two and a half hours before I need to return to fetch him. Yes, everythin...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 13, 2009, 6:49 pm
Sunday morning was our annual church picnic. It's always a casual type of Sunday, where we usually kick off the fall church year. In addition to all of the after-service activities for day, my h...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 9, 2009, 4:34 am
Back in college, our campus ministry put on a little production based on Marlo Thomas' Free To be You and Me. I actually haven't ever played a recording of this for the kids, but I really nee...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 8, 2009, 7:22 am
So as I sit here, Noah has now been sent off to school for his first day of second grade. This day is being met with uncertainty for me. I have not brought my blog friends along for the ride on this o...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 3, 2009, 9:14 pm
As I attended both open houses at both schools that will be attended (as for now) this year by Noah and Aaron, I was asked a question. I stopped in to visit with Noah's first grade teacher from l...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Sep 2, 2009, 8:29 pm
I know... school hasn't even started for us yet and here I am talking about Christmas. But you'd have to know me (and especially my hubby) to really understand. We LOVE Christmas. We watch Ch...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 31, 2009, 4:52 pm
A few weeks ago, Noah begged me to take an "adventure". This adventure needed to take place "in a woods, and we have to stay there forever." It also could not involve driving. At All! I wanted to enco...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 31, 2009, 7:48 am
I had a couple of questions last week about some of my posts. I thought I would answer a couple of them. I found out why the kitchen utensil is no longer being used. After reading my post about it, ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 30, 2009, 2:06 pm
I hope everyone had a great weekend. I have decided this week to take a break from the Weekend Top Five, at least for this week, and maybe for awhile. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that this blo...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 26, 2009, 8:38 pm
Ever seen one of these? Have you ever used one? Recently? Ever tried to find one in a store? Wondering why I ask? In the fifteen years that Steve and I have been together, (but especially in the ...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 25, 2009, 6:44 pm

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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 24, 2009, 8:45 pm
I mentioned yesterday that Noah wanted to make a cake. All. By. Himself. He was determined to not have any help, and since we had absolutely nothing going on for the day on Saturday, I decided to go...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 23, 2009, 8:31 pm
Like happens so often on the weekends, our plans changed a few times. We were planning to go spend the day with my MIL and some of the cousins, but it got cancelled first thing in the morning when on...
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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 18, 2009, 9:26 pm

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Kristina W. posted an article on the Wheelz Are Rolling - Aug 18, 2009, 8:56 am
I think it was about this time last year that I posted a similar post. The "fun" of trying on pants with little boys. Knowing that we were going for a school clothes shopping trip with Grandma on We...
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