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Flower Power
My six-year-old has developed this habit of telling me how cute I look when I wear a particular pair of pajama bottoms. He’s taken to calling them my “cute pajamas” and coos at me every time I wear them. Today, in fact, he nearly forbade me to get dressed because it would mean putting [...]
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I curled up on the couch this weekend with a can of Dr.Pepper and a copy of How to Photograph Absolutely Everything, a great new book I picked up at the library on a whim. It was my plan to read through some of the basics, play around with my camera, and see if [...]
continue reading "Camera fun"I’m blogging this
Today was the last day of school (finally!) and tonight we’re celebrating with a slumber party.
Just the four of us, enjoying a bowl of snacks,
re-watching the last few episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender,
and sleeping on Mommy-made quilts.
To be completely accurate, I’m not really watching Avatar. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a surprisingly [...]
Chicken dance
Last time Eamonn and I went to Hillview Farms, we saw some chickens off in the distance who, once they noticed us, came running down the hill. The closer the chickens got, the more interested Eamonn got in watching them from the safety of the car. No, he was not adventurous where enthusiastic clucking and [...]
continue reading "Chicken dance"This is their lumber store
This morning I got my first taste of Farmers’ Market Season. My regular markets haven’t opened yet, so I went to one that was new to me.
This is the third summer that I’ve frequented the local markets, and I remember that first season, when the boys liked to tag along. Eamonn, in particular, liked to [...]
continue reading "This is their lumber store"Dear Wealthy Benefactor
I don’t know if you exist, but I hope you do, because I have a project you could help me finance. I am so looking forward to the idea of entertaining outside in the warmer weather, but there are safety issues that prevent me from doing so. Allow me to elaborate:
We can’t use our bbq [...]
continue reading "Dear Wealthy Benefactor"Birth days
Yesterday the youngest Clarke turned six. Partying was done, fun was had.
And today we have the dishes in the sink to prove it.
What a beautiful day it is, today. We’ve got Spring Break this week, but if the weather report is to be believed, much of it will be chilly, rainy, and gloomy. So today [...]
Mother Nature’s sense of humor
Happy First Day of Spring! We awoke to this. Hardly spring-like. It was all gone by 10am, but still… Snow? Really? That Mother Nature is such a kidder, eh?
I’m gearing up for a challenging weekend around here. I stopped being feverish and miserable from my flu a few weeks ago, but I still haven’t shaken [...]
Dipping into the gift card stash
It was Tuesday night. Aidan had been coughing and feverish for a day or so, and Eamonn was nestling in to me on the couch in a way that could only say “I’m coming down with it, too.” Truth be told, I was feeling somewhat sluggish myself, and so I did what any sane person [...]
continue reading "Dipping into the gift card stash"Nine
We have a birthday in the house today. A sweet little boy who was born at 5:52 pm, February 26th, 2000. Our Millennium Baby.
Nine years go by so quickly. It seems like just yesterday we brought him home from the hospital.
Just yesterday we were bleary-eyed from rocking a colicky baby to sleep two or three [...]
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