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  My name is Tami and I live in central Illinois with my husband, Larry and three children, Caleb (8), Camden (7) and Emma (4). I hope you'll enjoy reading about my life as a wife/mother and about our family's adventures.

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• Books I’ve Read In 2012

  • * Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder (read with Emma)
  • * Key Lime Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke
  • * fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science - Lucia Greenhouse
  • * Night Road - Kristin Hannah
  • * The Money Saving Mom's Budget - Crystal Paine
  • * Unshaken: Rising from the Ruins of Haiti's Hotel Montana - Dan Woolley
  • * Carrot Cake Murder - Joanne Fluke
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Advent Calendar

I have been wanting to incorporate Advent into our family for a couple of years, but have never made it happen.

This year I was motivated by this muffin tin advent calendar that Meredith made.  Lack of time had me creating something a little more simple for this year.  Hopefully next year I can start sooner and create something that will last from year to year.

I made a simple envelope from scrapbook paper and free-handed a tree and stars to glue on. My husband and I then decided on 24 things to do over the course of the month.  There are a few days that are very busy for our family, so those days we will have a verse to read instead of an activity.  The kids were watching me put the calendar together this weekend and are anxious to start.

We are also reading Looking Forward to the Nativity as a family each night.

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