Category Archives: Farmerteen’s Year of Firsts

161: Harry Potter and the Amazing Andi Scrap

My friend Andi, mother of Hannah, pictured below, left, is really good at taking, developing, and getting pictures up online and into scrapbooks. By “really good” I mean amazing. Case in point: This picture was taken less than 12 hours … Continue reading

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193: Farmerteen’s New Do

Poor Farmerteen. She has straight, thin hair like the paternal side of her family. I convinced her that she ought to stop trying to fight what it is, and work with it. She’s not convinced that she adores it yet. … Continue reading

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251: Skull Mug

This is Farmerteen, Easter morning, with her skull mug. She’s extra happy, because it’s not just a skull mug, but it’s a skull mug full of Butterfingers.

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262: iPod Card

Farmerteen and her friends are a little iPod crazy, but she conceived and created this card for her friend’s birthday. She and her father worked on the ratio and aspect (lots of math!), and fought valiantly with the computer to … Continue reading

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317: Duvlina

In their Synod Hall, Christ Church Cathedral has a Dublin-in-Viking-times exhibit that we didn’t initially realize was quite interactive.

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321: Irish for the day

A few months back, Michael was going to have a meeting in Paris, and we were going to tag along. The meeting got canceled, and we didn’t end up in Paris, but while it was still on, Farmerteen and I … Continue reading

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332: Party!

We haven’t had a house full of teenagers in a while. (And I think Michael’s okay if we don’t again for a while yet!) This many teenagers makes the ginormous livingroom seem kind of small. On the woodstove are pots … Continue reading

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337: Farmerteen’s Year of Firsts

Goodbye, Farmergirl. Hello, Farmerteen! Farmerteen has newly-dyed hair (brown), and is serving dinner at her youth group this evening (Fall Bake, salad, and Vanilla, Butter, and Nut Pound Cake). She has decided this should be a “year of firsts” . … Continue reading

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