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Heard At Our House This Evening

Thursday, October 22, 2009 (Updated: Saturday, February 25, 2023)
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Setting the scene: Caroline is eating banana bread for her before bath snack. She goes to get out of her chair and give a bite to Daddy and somehow falls onto the floor, hard.

Caroline (crying hard): I need you, I need you, I need you!




Daddy (consoling): It’s okay. It’s just a little bump.

Caroline: No, it was a BIIIIIIGGGGG bump. Kiss it.

Daddy: Where do you want me to kiss it?

Caroline: ALL OVER!!!

The photo is from August when Caroline was about a month away from her third birthday.  She looks the same except the hair is about two inches longer now.  Where she got the beautiful waves and curls… I have no idea. Just a gift from God.

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Sallie Schaaf Borrink is a Christian, wife, mother, homeschooler, homebody, and autodidact. She owns a home-based graphic design and web design business with her husband (DavidandSallie.com).

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  1. Jen C

    Friday, October 23, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    She is beautiful! 🙂

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  2. Christian @ Modobject at Home

    Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Sallie, she is just beautiful! What a precious, precious gift. In many ways I still think of Caroline as a baby/toddler, what a joy to see her coming into girlhood.

    On a completely different note, I jumped over here today for a quick visit because my reader hasn’t shown any new posts from you since your “benefits of being ill” post, and, wow, you’ve been posting and I’ve been missing them. I’m going to unsubscribe then resubscribe and hopefully that will fix the glitch.

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  3. Meredith

    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    I’ve also had no new posts on the reader : ) Glad I stopped by.

    Caroline is such a lovely little girl! My mother says that these baby waves/curls will disappear once we cut their hair, so I have let Elise’s keep growing. She and Caroline seem like they would enjoy playing together, cutting flowers and having “tea.”

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I’m Sallie — wife, mother, just-retired homeschooler, and happy warrior for Christ. Our little family lives a quiet and cozy life of home education, self-employment, and pithy exchanges. I’ve been writing here for 20+ years as a curator of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. I don't peddle trendy aesthetics or ideas, but write about what I'm learning while thinking for myself. And I like to laugh. A lot. Start here. ♥

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