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Some News

 We have some news...

Baby Mountain Miller #6 is on the way and expected in late May 2021!

Tracey and Howard hope the baby is a boy to complete our Brady Bunch square with three boys and three girls.  Lee Lee and Caroline happily announce that the baby is going to be -- a boy or a girl, and Hunter has kept his opinion to himself.  We will find out the baby's gender when he or she arrives.

We are incredibly excited and feel immeasurably blessed to have another precious baby on the way.  We know that God has perfectly knit this baby together and we cannot wait to get to know this new baby brother or sister and watch how he or she fits perfectly into our family.

Nothing Feels Right

Published in Her View From Home

As the School Year Nears, Nothing I Choose Feels Right.

Homeschool doesn’t feel right

Virtual school doesn’t feel right.

Hybrid school doesn’t feel right.

Delaying school doesn’t feel right.

Starting school on time doesn’t feel right.

Getting temperature checks doesn’t feel right.

Having my child wear a mask in school doesn’t feel right.

Having to choose between my children’s health and education doesn’t feel right.

Worrying if I send them to a school that not only looks different but feels different doesn’t feel right.

Worrying that later on down the road sending them to a school and wearing a mask and getting their temperature checked constantly will somehow impact their mental health doesn’t feel right.

Worrying about them possibly seeing a classmate or teacher become sick and worrying if that person will ever come back doesn’t feel right.As parents we aren’t just thinking about this upcoming school year, we are worrying about how this will impact our kid’s health and mental health now and in the future because both of those things are equally as important.

Because the truth is this school year nothing I choose feels right and the only thing that would feel right is school back to how it was last year before all this came along.

Originally published on Grief to Hope with Nikki Pennington

Believe

Once again, I found this on social media and laughed too hard when I read it...

 

Good Company

This video made me laugh out loud and I've been asked every of these questions except, "Are you Catholic?" so I guess we're in good company.

Fashionista

My sweet girl decided to pick out her clothes the other day for the first time... she must have heard about Caroline trying to dress herself... but she did not stop there.  She insisted in adding a sun hat, plastic flower lei and makeshift picnic basket to her ensemble.

 

What style!

 

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A Long Way Home

When I was a kid, I enjoyed the songs of Tom Chapin.  There was one in particular that I ALWAYS think of when Hubby and I are traveling to get back home.

It's all about a man trying to get home and all the obstacles that get in his way... and he sings, "It's a long long long long long way home."

Yesterday, with 1350 miles in 23 hours with 1 husband, 1 baby, 1 dog, 1 cat, 1 truck... it really was a long long long long long way home.


 
Long Way Home
Tom Chapin

I was comin' home, on a yellow bus,

When the bus broke down, and stranded us,

Comin' home on a yellow bus,

When the bus broke down and stranded us.

It was a long, long, long, long, long way home.

So I hopped a train, comin' down the line.

The caboose came loose, I got left behind.

Hopped a train, comin' down the line,

Caboose came loose, I got left behind.

It was a long, long, long, long, long way home.

So I found a boat, by the river bank,
But we struck a rock, and we promptly sank.

Found a boat by the river bank,

but we struck a rock and we promptly sank.

It was a long, long, long, long, long way home.

So I got picked up, by a submarine,

But they left me off, in the Philippines.

Got picked up by a submarine,

They left me ff in the Philippines,

It was a long, long, long, long, long way home.

So I took a jet, but I couldn't pay,

So they threw me out, of the cargo bay.

Took a jet, but I couldn't pay,

So they threw me out of the cargo bay.
It was a long, long, long, long, long way home.

My parachute, kept me safe from harm,

And I landed in a tree, on the neighbors' farm.

My parachute kept m safe from harm,

landed in a tree on the neighbors' farm.
It was a long, long, long, long, long way home.

So I jumped a horse, but it threw a shoe,

And I had to walk, back home to you.

So I jumped a horse but it threw a shoe,
and I had to walk back home to you.

It was a long, long, long, long, long way home.

So I'm sorry, Mom, that I'm home so late,

And that dinner's cold, and I made you wait.

Sorry, Mom, that I'm home so late,

And that dinner's cold, and I made you wait.

It was just a long, long, long, long, long way home.

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