May 22nd, 2009
While I won’t claim to have well formed career goals, and my life goals are few, I do have reasonably well defined goals for the rearing of my children. I became a parent because I wanted someone with whom to share all the coolest things in life – steam trains, warm rain puddles, s’mores, cherry […]
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May 21st, 2009
I’m still exhausted from the last two weekends and here we are on the crest of another. We’re having a reasonably hot summer, and the kids are at a good age for just about everything this year so we’ve been going overboard with the activities – balancing multiple birthday parties against our standing soccer saturday […]
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May 9th, 2009
I hope your littles take good care of you. Will grew me a sweet pea seedling, painted something I’m not allowed to open, yet, and made me a necklace. I made the family Molly Weizenburg’s cream cheese frosted cinnamon rolls. I’m looking forward to a long day of running about with my kids.
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May 9th, 2009
I’m a sucker for novelty and my children moreso, so when I saw these floating around the internets, I knew I was going to end up making them, despite the fact that they look absolutely revolting. This is something the kids can help with, though mine didn’t. I stabbed veggie pup/hotdog pieces with dried pasta, […]
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May 6th, 2009
I stepped out of the bathroom momentarily and returned to find Sylvie shaving Will’s back using a toy razor. Where do they learn these things? Neither their dad nor I have hairy backs. Swear.
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May 5th, 2009
Post bath, Will gelled his hair slicking it back Fonzi style, then appeared in the kitchen, pajamas in hand, concerned, “But my pjs are going to mess up the hair!”
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May 5th, 2009
Following our streak of hot weather, we’re suffering biblical rains. Some of this has been like Houston humidity; some true rain. Yesterday’s rain brought fetid mud puddles to bathe in. Of course, puddles are straight where the kids headed when we arrived home from school. Initially, the kids were fully clothed in jeans and rain […]
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May 5th, 2009
Will started swimming lessons, today. He was so excited, he had his goggles on 15 minutes before his group was allowed in the water. Because we were running late, I accidentally got him in the pool with the Level 2 kids (second season swimmers), but he is pretty fearless and was able to quickly catch […]
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April 30th, 2009
We had a windy fun-filled weekend camping at Sonoma State Beach with the kids’ favorite friends – Matthew and Toby. We got off to a rough start arriving at 8:40PM to pitch the tent in the dark, fighting 40mph winds, and ultimately burning a small hole in the tent when the wind pushed it against […]
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April 22nd, 2009
We are definitely enjoying having a porch in the back yard. Oh that, and the heat. Stella and Will spent a few hours hunting for insects and then inspecting their victims when we got home from school. I taught them how to run the net through bushes and grass to get the bugs to fall […]
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