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Spent a good part of the holiday weekend camping.  Joel and Zach went out on Friday night while Chelsea and I didn't go out until Saturday afternoon after she finished work.
It was nice having Friday night home to be able to finish up some projects and yet have Joel and Zach get down there and get things set up.  They enjoy the time they get to spend before the whole gang shows up.
It was the...

penury
\PEN-yuh-ree\  noun
Meaning
    *1 : a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money); especially : severe poverty
     2 : extreme frugality
Example Sentence
     As a young man Uncle Leonard endured great penury, and though he later became a successful business owner, he never forgot the hardships of his youth.

Today was filled with many things...
Chelsea's senior breakfast / pick up cap and gown lunch with mom, Deb and Chelsea shopping with Chelsea drop off a gift at a friends organize! One of my favorite things to do! I came across this idea of using totes in my kitchen cabinets after venturing over to the TIP Junkie site.  From there I found this site and her organized pantry.  Now mind you, even...

 

 
 
What a nice night we had celebrating at Chelsea's commencement.  We were joined by Grandma W, Grandma Z, Aunt Deb, Uncle Gordon,Ben, Rich, Rose and Lisa.  Chelsea was so nervous yet excited, happy yet sad.
Aunt Debbie made her an adorable mini book I will be sure to post pictures of later...
 
 
 

 

YOU CAN ONLY TYPE ONE WORD!
I got this in an email but thought it would be a great blog post too!  Instead of tagging - let me know if you add it to your blog...
Not as easy as you might think.  Change the  answers to suit you and pass it on. It's really hard to only use one word answers.
1. Where is your cell phone? : purse
2. Your significant other?: outside
3. Your hair: short...

Merriam-Webster’s
Word of the Day
May 22
subreption
\sub-REP-shun\  
noun
Meaning
     : a deliberate misrepresentation; also : an inference drawn from it
Example Sentence
     Shareholders have filed a class action lawsuit against the company for its subreption of earnings and losses
Did you know?
     In canon law and Scots law, subreption is the obtainment of...

First Day... Last Day
Chelsea's first day of school 8-27-07  - Chelsea's last day of school 5-21-08


She just came home from work and I remembered that we needed to get a last day of school picture to go with her first day of school picture...
Oooh and you can see our freshly painted front porch in these too!

I love reading and I'm so fascinated with words.  Yesterday while Zach and I were at Barnes and Noble I picked up a couple more books, books for reading just for fun.
But one that I was really interested in that I DIDN"T get was the Webster's  New world Essential Vocabulary. I think I may need to go back for it...
There is an online version and they have a word of the day site - so for now I...

Last night I finished the book Escape - I would highly recommend it. 
Copied from a review on Goodreads and the book jacket
"The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total...