Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: Jan 29 2007 at 8:45pm | IP Logged Quote aussieannie
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SHEESH! And to think I came to this thread (from the "Welcome" thread in 'Hidden Treasure')for a little levity. Now I'm crying all over the keyboard again!


Oh, that's funny Mary! - I can imagine the look on your face with that "SHEESH!"

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Posted: Jan 29 2007 at 9:09pm | IP Logged Quote alicegunther
Cay, like everything about you, that post was beautiful!

And I share your feelings when I think of our little house, not to mention our first tiny apartment. Those places are hallowed in my memory.

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Posted: Jan 29 2007 at 11:30pm | IP Logged Quote Tina P.
I look forward to creating memories with my children in the house we currently own. Having been in the military (my dh just retired) for over 20 years, he hasn't lived in one place for more than three years at a stretch, and sometimes only six months (and I had big plans for that house in Germany ... with just six months' of living in the house and me having had a baby within the first two months, we didn't get a whole lot accomplished there). I've been with him for 15 of those years. Yes, we created memories at many of our homes, some of them small, some of them larger. But we never really became attached to a house. Maybe it's the military mentality that drives us to detach ourselves from places.

There are certain places I miss due to what was in or around the city in which we lived. In Alabama there's a wonderful art museum with a two-story room just for kids. Oh, and their zoo is awesome! It is very well organized and small enough for me to get through with little kids all in one visit.

In Germany, the mountains and gorges and little villages sprinkled throughout the valleys below that we drove through are still fresh in my mind. I loved that house, I have to admit. It was three stories with an attached 2-bedroom apartment. Our two girls had a bedroom on the third story and I teased them that it was their Rapunzel room. We used the attached apartment as storage. The kids had barely any toys and we had hardly any school supplies. It was our best homeschooling experience yet.

In England we lived in base housing. Not pretty, but functional. What we remember best is the weekends spent traveling to earls' and lords' homes opened to us through the National Trust, castles, and nature trails.

All the other places we'd been together (Nevada, Korea, and Arizona (oooh...they have a cool children's section of the library there)), the kids were so small ...

Er ... I guess I went for an unplanned trip down memory lane as well, Cay. I guess I just wanted to illustrate how different it is for someone who moves sometimes several times within a year.

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Lots of great tips already. Paring down to bare necessity is the answer and always make time to go outdoors. We have just moved from a 360 square metre house to one under 120 square metres, with nine people including growing bodies it is a squeeze but it can be done.

Also what is your situation today with three little ones will not necessarily stay the same. Back when I had three littlies and then four and five we lived in a 77square metre house, and then we extended. and then we moved here

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