Can’t believe I am posting this

It’s such beautiful weather down here. N was playing outside by himself today after lunch. I walked by the window to check on him and he was sitting in the grass staring at the sky. I did a double take because N doesn’t just SIT and stare at the sky. I then did a triple [...]

Pinky finger says Ouch!

WARNING: Frosted shredded mini-wheats can be hazardous to your skin. When mini-wheat crumbs are left on a surface and allowed to dry, particularly for 12 hours or more, they will harden and can become razor sharp. Attempting to wipe the hardened shreaded mini-wheat crumbs off the table with one’s hand has been known to result [...]

Battle of the Spoon

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It’s true that kids will sometimes fight over anything. We just went through a few days of morning fights over who got to use a “special” spoon. I try to get the kids involved in meal preparations as much as I can. When you’re serving up cereal for [...]

“Of course it was. They had records back then, right?”

Said today by E, right after N asked “Mommy, was it a very, very, very long time ago when you were a kid?”

Beautiful Baby

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It’s handy having a sister that is good at photography. Hannah had a photo shoot today.
 
Check our Photo Album for a couple of the best pictures.
 
(By the way, if you look really, REALLY close you may be able to see her first tooth. Found just yesterday by her [...]

A Tale of Two Pencils

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This is the tale of two pencils that once belonged to two students whose class load was filled with pencil-intense classes such as math and computer science. The two pencils dutifully served those students well during Calculus III, Linear Algebra, Abstract Math, Assembler II, and so forth. Finally after [...]

Monarch in the Sky

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A few weeks ago we had a beautiful Sunday afternoon. So beautiful, in fact, that a bike ride to the local school playground with kites in tow was in order.
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This butterfly kite joined our collection last year. It was purchased at the kite festival at [...]

Dear Daughter,

It’s Thursday night and there’s so many things I should be doing to get ready for your party this weekend. There are balloons to be found and mermaids to be cut out. And have you seen your bathroom lately? It’s getting a bit nasty. That should really be cleaned before people get here so they [...]