Dinner with Friends (Ruth’s SOLS)

We walked through our first adoptions together. Our friendship was built around the ups and downs of becoming adoptive parents. That was six years ago. Since then they have adopted three more children and we have adopted two more. Currently they have four kids under the age of five and we have three, ages 9, [...]

Board Games (Ruth’s SOLS)

Board games are a very good thing. When the girls first moved home we played them all the time. I’d love to write more, but our Internet has quit & posting from my phone is a little clunky. So this Slice is quite simply: Board games are a very good thing.

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No Internet is making this a slim post today. Keep your fingers crossed that the company fixes the problem soon!

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How do I share my students’ Slices? What do I need to know about participating in the Slice of Life Story Challenge 2011? Need to know how to start a blog? What’s a Slice? Cool News: Stenhouse is offering free shipping to Slicers throughout the month of March. Just enter the code SOL. Just a note: [...]

Reading Together (Ruth’s SOLS)

“Excuse me Mom,” Sam said as we ended a chapter in The Magician’s Elephant. When he talks like this it always makes me smile. I pause and look at him. “You know, I’ve been thinking about Gloria Dump.” “Gloria Dump?” I raise my eyebrows. “Yes. Gloria Dump. In Because of Winn Dixie. Do you remember?” [...]

Words that are Speaking to Me

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s the fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Scott Berkun

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Slice of Life Challenge 2011. Please share your unique URL to your daily slice in the comments of this post. Feel free to grab this button and use it to your blog. Happy Slicing. Adding emotion to your Slice helps to document the moment. Check out this Emotional Thesaurus. The link will take you to [...]

Spring on a Grey Day (Ruth’s SOLS)

  Today was a grey rainy day. After school and before we went to our friends’ house for dinner Sam and I played outside. In our rain boots (yes, his are on the wrong feet . . . but he did it himself!) we came across this little guy. I am reminded how sometimes hope [...]

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Way to find your voice: write and write and write and write. It will eventually surface and when it does, you’ll know it. – Sharon Creech via Twitter (@ciaobellacreech) 03 March 2011 How do I share my students’ Slices? What do I need to know about participating in the Slice of Life Story Challenge 2011? [...]

Dessert Club (Ruth’s SOLS)

Usually on Thursdays, always after our kids’ bedtime, we host Dessert Club. It started five or six years ago, because we wanted to get to know the high school kids in our Sunday School class. More than that, we wanted to get to know their friends too. With my love of cooking and Andy’s love [...]

Q & A about SOLS Challenge

On the first day of the Challenge, Cathy asked me hold a Question and Answer Session with her second graders. She invited her students to slice with her during the month of March, and they were filled with questions. Thought you may enjoy eavesdropping.

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It’s not too late to join us! If you’ve been dragging your feet, jump in today. You won’t be sorry — I pinky promise! Don’t you just love comments? Remember to spread the joy and leave comments on at least three other Slices. How do I share my students’ Slices? What do I need to [...]

Library Friends (Ruth’s SOLS)

My mom (who comments as Quilt Addict) is a library director. She is also Mimi.  In her role as Mimi she keeps my son, Sam, while I’m at work. In her role as librarian, she works some afternoons. Inevitably these two roles collide, which makes for a little boy who loves the library . . . [...]

Sharing Student Slices

First — Kudos to everyone who is extending this challenge to their classrooms! Second — the logistics of sharing your students Slices. If you have questions after reading this, please leave a comment. If you want to share students slices either: If students are blogging, have them link their posts to a post on YOUR [...]

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Slice of Life Challenge 2011. Please share your unique URL to your daily slice in the comments of this post. Feel free to grab this button and use it to your blog. Happy Slicing.   Oh my! I am overwhelmed by your support of this challenge. Don’t you just get goosebumps thinking about our community [...]

And So It Begins (Ruth’s SOLS)

Hello March. I’ve been waiting for you. My soul feels you. Last summer I longed for a change in season. Summer wasn’t in my heart, but it held on and kept coming back and back and back. I couldn’t escape the summer memories, memories reminding me that sometimes life is just plain hard.  Winter was [...]

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And it begins . . . Important information about participating in the Slice of Life Story Challenge 2011. Need to know how to start a blog? What’s a Slice? Cool News: Stenhouse is offering free shipping to Slicers throughout the month of March. Just enter the code SOL.