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I live in ham lake mn! I have four younger siblings, chickens, a horse, and a dog. do you have any animals?? I just joined the blog about a month ago! It’s sooooo cooooooolllll!!!!!
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No, we used to have a LOT of chickens, but when my dad got a travel nurse job, we gave them to our uncle so we could travel more! ( Our uncle has a dog like 20 goats and LOTS of chickens)! Minnesota, huh? Nice!
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Last year we went to Farmington NM, Mexico, Bahamas,Ohio, then Mexico again.
This year: Florida/Diseny World, Ruidoso NM.
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Minnesota is nice most of the time, but right now we are having a late spring. Boo!!! It’s been like forty’s for a while when it should be sixty’s of higher!! Ugh!!!
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Yikes! In OH it’s in the 30’s! Here in NM it’s in the 70’s! Really nice!
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Do you travel much, Lelah?
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each winter we travel to florida and stay there for a few weeks. and each fall we do a road trip our west!! Super fun! What is your favorite place you have traveled, Emalee?
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I like being in the mountains, so Ruidoso! It’s sooooo pretty! And there’s elk EVERYWHERE! Wild elk!
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Though they’re not dangerous! In the morning you’ll see them just wandering around! They’re about 3-4 feet tall!
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What’s your favorite place you’ve been, Lelah?
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That’s so much fun!! We saw a moose and her baby in front of our rented house when we were on a road trip! it was so cool!
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My favorite place is probably florida! I love the warmth!!
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I just started my blog, and I would so appreciate if you would consider it for placement. Thank you so much, Mrs. M!
-Abbi G
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Done!
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Wow! Where’d you see the moose? Florida’s really fun! What’s your favorite animal? Mine’s a panda, they’re so cute and snuggly! I looked up on my phone what you name means: Night Beauty! So pretty!
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Mrs. M, how many stories have come in?
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40! 20 in each age group. That’s a ton of stories to read in a short time….
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And how many competitions have you judged?
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Who me? Too many to count, but I enlist the aid of two other seasoned judges so I don’t have to be responsible to choose out of so many good stories by myself!
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Nice!!
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Mrs. M, what time are you hoping for the competition news to come out?
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Ummm, I’m not sure what you are asking. What competition news? What competition? Do you mean the Reader’s Choice Voting?
That’s been up since early this morning. Didn’t you get an email notification for the newest post?
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So, Lelah, are you home schooled? I am!
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Do you like reading? I do! I suggest these book series: The Door Within by Wayne Thomas Batson, Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson, and Green Ember by S. D. Smith. These are some of my FAVORITES! In fact, there soooooo good at the end that I start crying!
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S. D. Smith is my fav. author!!
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Lelah, were you in the top in your age group, I wasn’t. But I still had fun!!
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I wasn’t neither. But that’s okay!!
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Agreed!!
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Natalia, your name means Natalia is baby girl name mainly popular in Christian religion and its main origin is Italian. Natalia name meanings is Christ’s birthday, in the Bible!! Soooo cool! I’ve always LOVED that name!!
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Natalia is my middle name….
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Thanks, Emalee!!
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Brianna, did you write the book: Sacrifice for Freedom??
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It’s really good!! Lovely!!
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Thanks!! Yes, I did and had a lot of fun writing it…though my older sister helped me a lot
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Well spoken, Emalee!!
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Thanks!!
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What is your story for this spring contest called, Emalee?
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Chestnut! And yours? Was it A Sacrifice for Freedom??
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Nice!! I would really love to see your story here. Are you planning to ask Mrs. M. to post it on this blog? (You don’t have to if you don’t want to)
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I agree!😉👀
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Never mind. Sorry! Looking over the other email it looks like you did!! Good job for winning first place!! You have an older sister?? How old is she?? My mom helped me with my story!! Still got to work on improving them though…..
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Yep, I got an older sister….three, actually. The one you asked about is a teen she helps a LOT with my stories. (I didn’t win first place.) Do you have any sisters, Emalee?
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You should read my unmarked story then read the story my sister helped me with. Huge difference!! LOL!!
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Wow!! Your right!! I have one older sister, Grace, age 13, older brother, Andrew, age 12, me, age 10, Miriam, age 9, David, age 7, Jonathan, age 5, Susanna, 3, Esther, 1, and a new baby boy!!
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I’m the third oldest!! You??
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This is unbelievable! I’m third oldest!🤣
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So cool!! How many younger siblings do you have?? I have 6!! Miriam, David, Jonathan (we call him JJ, though!), Susanna, Esther, and the new baby boy!! Well, 7 counting Esperanza, who died in Mexico the day she was born……..
She would have been 4 right now!! The friends we had down in Mexico, (we were doing missionary work down there), were babysitting us while our mom was in the hospital and our dad was there with her. I was like 4 or something then, and I didn’t know what was happening. We saw her like 2 or 3 weeks later. We were so happy!!
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But that was a long time ago!! Now I’m 10! You??
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I’m 11. We like the same book (Green Ember!!), third oldest, big families…. What do you like doing in your spare time? I love reading(of course), writing, and coloring. 🙂 I have **counts fingers** 4 younger siblings.
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Are you homeschooled? I am, and i loev it!
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Opps love**
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So cool!! I’m the third oldest too!! We’re homeschooled!! I like it even though it might be a little too tricky sometimes! I’m going into 6th grade. You??
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Yep, we’re both homeschooled, and yes, it is tricky at times because with such large families, it can be hard. I’m already in 6th grade. It makes sense because I’m 11. 😉
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I love reading and writing stories in my pastime!! So you have 8 siblings counting you?? I going to have a tenth one!! Boy…. Though one of them are not with us right now…. She–Esperanza–is in Heaven. Have you lost any siblings?? You don’t have to answer this one!
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It’s really hard when it happens.
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I love reading (and writing) stories too(in fact, that is what i was just doing, Lol)! I have 6 siblings, (3 boys, 3 girls), and thankfully we never lost one. It must have been really sad to lose a sister. 😥How old were you when it happened?(If you feel too sad to answer, you don’t have to)
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What else do you like doing in your spare time? i like reading, writing, coloring while listening to an audiobook(such as Mrs. M.’s short story audiobooks.), and going outside. It’s so nice here bc. it’s spring!
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I was like three. I was really hard to understand what was going on and why Mom was in the hospital for many weeks.
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Oops ‘it’ was really hard…….
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