I’ve been working on this embroidery piece as a gift. The fabric pieces are remnants from the Scrap Exchange, a local reseller of donated craft materials and industrial discards. I never know what I will find there! Combining the state shape with “home” and a heart for our city isn’t the most original concept, but I haven’t seen anything quite like this design in shops or … Continue reading Home state hoop art
We’re fostering kittens for a few weeks. Continue reading Kitten TV
I’d love suggestions on additions to the course! Continue reading Obstacle course
I am a big fan of the Circle app for wifi filtering and like to share how useful we’ve found it in our family. Continue reading Meet Circle
Just after Christmas I signed up for the Raleigh Rock n Roll marathon, to be held on April 12, 2015. I’d been wanting to commit to one for a while and had struggled between committing to traveling to one (like the Detroit Free Press marathon, which looks really fun) versus, well, not over-complicating things with travel and logistics and cost. I read that the Rock n … Continue reading Marathon training
We participated in Walk to School Day this morning. This was kind of a tough sell initially since, although we walk/bike to school every day already, going to the meeting point meant leaving the house 15 minutes earlier and walking twice as far. I considered driving to the meeting point but rejected that as, er, tacky. (I did see parents pull up in cars and let … Continue reading Walk to School Day
Isaac took some fireworks pictures with my iPhone. Continue reading Fireworks
This is a very easy and fast gluten free breakfast. Continue reading Scrambled egg tortilla
I took the kids today on a geocaching hunt for a cache featuring a foreign coin exchange. We’ve had a couple busts recently on geocaching so they weren’t highly enthusiastic, but it turned out to be a great cache! We left some UK coins, and took a little whistle with a compass in it. The big score was finding a trackable. This special coin had … Continue reading Geocaching for Foreign Coins
Deborah Beckett 
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