Karen Alma
What I think about. Things that happen to me. Stuff I like. And other things.
Category: Family
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Here’s the latest installment of craftiness in the Arnold household. This creature is presumably some kind of dinosaur. It’s made with mostly construction paper, has toilet paper roll legs, and has the cutest little T-Rexish arms. Bonus feature: it pukes pom poms. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Karen (Kuster) Arnold (@iamkarenalma) Bonus bonus…
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My 14 year old came up with this craft. Pom poms, construction paper, and some ingenuity. Look at the detail on the wing. Isn’t that cute? And of course no craft is complete without hot glue madness.
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As mentioned, the kiddos are hard at work crafting. The youngest made Yoga Man, a super hero for the modern day. My third child made Chef Stew and Assistant Chef Ookie. “He’s not a super hero, he’s just a chef,” he says. As you can see, they are having a ton of fun with…
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Every Christmas we put out a table stocked with craft supplies in hopes the kids will make a holiday themed craft or two. We live in a small house so other times of the year when we do crafts we put our supplies away after the project is done. At Christmas time the table stays out…
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My kid was actually really climbing the walls tonight.
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I’ve talked about my husband’s great great aunt before. I got back into her poetry today and found this: Closet Poet Hide! Hide! Let nobody see Rebellious, eccentric, irreverent Me. I do not, I cannot, I will not conform. I dwell on the outskirts of civilized norm; And sometimes in nightmares I hear a voice…
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In prep for our upcoming Long Walk we did a 10.53 miler. Got childcare, the weather was fantastic, planned a route, and off we went. We were an hour in when we saw this: That’s a massive storm cloud across the valley, approaching our location, in case you’re not sure what you’re looking at. About…
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My two oldest children are away, visiting their Grandma and some friends in South Dakota. This is the first time they’ve been away from us longer than an overnight at a sleep-over. I know it’s cliche, but I’m having a moment. I’m thinking about my babies all grown up and how it was only yesterday…
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Sunday night we drove up to the Sandia Crest (for those of you not from Albuquerque, that’s the top most point of the mountains on the east edge of town) to watch the sunset. There’s a great viewing area and tons of great trails. But on Sunday we were not there for hiking, just sunset watching.…
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When I was a kid we used to listen to Hair, the soundtrack. Now, for those of you who are familiar with Hair and know I grew up the daughter of missionaries, you might be surprised that we listened to that kind of thing. It’s not exactly Christian missionary kid material. But I knew the…
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I just received this old photograph in my email inbox. My uncle’s been going through old pictures and sent this gem to my dad. It’s a picture of the woman I’m named after, Alma Wunderlich, my dad’s mother’s mother. I don’t see myself in any of their faces, apparently the only thing I inherited from her is her…
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1978-01-18-Wednesday: Picnic in mts across the valley. Karen cut her chin 1 in gash in scuffle over skate board at Lillegard’s (emphasis mine). Off on a picnic about ten AM with sandwiches, cookies & lemonade. All but Boo – he had to go to math class. Explored hills that we see from balcony of the house…