HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:59:19 GMT content-type: text/html content-length: 162 location: https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/feed/ x-ac: 31.sin _bur MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=sin, cache;desc=MISS;dur=176.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:59:19 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type last-modified: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:59:19 GMT x-nc: MISS bur 144 content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 34.sin _bur BYPASS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=sin, cache;desc=BYPASS;dur=478.0 https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com My life as a stay at home mom Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:53:41 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ 20625079 https://s0.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/jacobs-fun-at-the-wedding/ https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/jacobs-fun-at-the-wedding/#respond Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:53:41 +0000 https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/?p=871 In February we attended Megan’s wedding and had a blast.  We were dancing all night, where at one point Megan and her gals were dancing in a circle and the Party Rock song came on.  Jacob was so excited for his favorite song and was dancing like crazy.  I leaned down and told him to slide into the circle of gals on his knees, telling him they would totally cheer for him and think it was the coolest.  Jacob said no way, so I told him I would pay him $5 to do it.  He again said no way, so I told him I would pay him $10.  He said ok; he did it; and Megan cheered like crazy!  I wish sometimes my kids would do cool things I suggest without me paying them, because they really gloat how cool it was afterward, like the whole thing was their idea (and not their amazing mom’s idea).

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Here are a few pics from November.  picking out our Christmas trees (yeah 2 this year) at Thanksgiving; Seth’s first time ice skating (I wasn’t going to let him skate but he insisted on wearing them, so I proceeded to drag him around the ice all evening-a little back braking);  and last a few pictures of great grandpa’s funeral day (yes this is Jacob wearing grandpa’s Knights of Columbus hat).

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]]> https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/isaac-plays-t-ball-june-2012/feed/ 0 799 joysofchildhood 100_2204 100_2208 100_2207 100_2198 https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/winona-wedding-pictures/ https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/winona-wedding-pictures/#respond Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:30:19 +0000 https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/?p=785 Here is a glimpse of our fun at my cousin’s wedding.  It isn’t very often we all get dressed up and go out, it was so fun!  In one of the pictures my awesome new brother-in-law is holding Seth and making the best faces in the world – it is no wonder why my sister chose to marry such a fun guy!  And in one of the other pictures you will see Isaac holding hands with a beautiful girl, don’t worry it is not romantic, just cousins and almost birthday sharers (a week or two apart) and best friends.  And here are the pictures:

Click to view slideshow. ]]> https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/winona-wedding-pictures/feed/ 0 785 joysofchildhood https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/roadtrip-to-winona-june-2012/ https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/roadtrip-to-winona-june-2012/#respond Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:05:38 +0000 https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/?p=768 This is the fun we had on the way to my cousin’s wedding in Winona, MN.   My mom, dad, and sister went with our family when we took the long way and a few extra days to travel through Sioux Falls and accross southern Minnesota.  Below you will see our stops at the Terry Redlin museum and the Falls.

]]> https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/roadtrip-to-winona-june-2012/feed/ 0 768 joysofchildhood 0621121551b 100_1277 https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/hiking-june-2012/ https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/hiking-june-2012/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:17:11 +0000 https://joysofchildhood.wordpress.com/?p=762 The kids love to go hiking!  Here is one of our many adventures, it was so funny how Seth was trying to bring every stick and rock back with him – he insisted on picking them all up and then when his hands got full, and he really needed to pick up another he would turn to me and ask me to hold them for him so he could get the next one, and of course being the thoughtful mom I am, I carried his treasures along, dropping a few at a time so that when he needed me to ‘hold’ the next batch my arms were ready and empty.

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