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This Central Oahu Ohana has a particular affinity for the North Shore.  In all fairness we like the Windward side as well but it’s about twice as far as Haleiwa or Mokuleia so we tend to hang out up here and turtle watch, paddle board or even better, both at the same time. For myContinueContinue reading “North Shore Weekends”

Wow.  Another year come and gone. Remember when you were a kid and the adults always talked about how time just flew by? “Where does the time go?” was the perpetual rhetorical question. And as a girl, I was just puzzled and perplexed.  I didn’t feel like time was flying by… but oh how IContinueContinue reading “2015 is almost gone”

One thing is for sure, you would never find pancakes like mine served at IHOP.  Mine are pretty tasty and much healthier for you than traditional bisquick pancakes.  I have to say my youngest did his mama proud when he turned up his nose at Cracker Barrel pancakes.  They just didn’t taste right…. That’s myContinueContinue reading “Peculiar Pancakes.”

So as I wrote my last post, letting go, I was thinking–this is so true on a deeper level than even leaving our little school.  It is necessary to let go of our children–from the day they are born almost! We have to let go. Conveniently we start off small, like when they first rollContinueContinue reading “Letting Go Part 2”

My name is Jennifer Swearingen and I am not a blogaholic.  Many days go by where I write nothing because homeschooling and just, well, life… I never could understand how homeschool moms found time to be on the forums as much as some of them are.  Just don’t get it.  I only have 3 kidsContinueContinue reading “The White Horse by Max Lucado”

My mom sent me a forwarded email the other day. I have to confess I don’t often read forwarded emails from anybody but if I’m going to read them from someone, I’ll read them from Mom. This one was about Memorial Day and it really made me stop and think…are we today really grateful forContinueContinue reading “Memorial Day Weekend”

Yes I know it is mother’s day but this mother wishes to thank her father for instilling a habit of reading and library utilization in me at a young age.  My happiest memories today are reading to my kids and since it just happened this afternoon, I don’t have too far to go to reminisce. But itContinueContinue reading “The Reading Father”

This is my first blog–I have been resisting for a long time in the name of busy-ness but a friend of mine inspired me with her own blog.  She is the single mother of three and far busier than I have ever been a day in my life!  So here I am.  I have threeContinueContinue reading “So glad you’re here!”