life
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Sunshine, Flowers, And Not Enough Books
My husband and I went for a walk over the weekend. Usually, walks are a bit of a production, I am not sure why. We tend to make the kids come with us (they complain but then end up enjoying it) and so it is a lot of nagging to get everyone out of the house and then there is the negotiating about bikes and scooters and whether or not helmets need to be worn. This time we left the kids behind. They had been working in the yard for quite a while so we didn’t feel the need to enforce exercise. I took my new camera with me and…
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Don’t Let Monday Get You Down
It’s Monday. It’s raining. It’s not spring here yet. But that is okay because for once in my life I am going for optimism and a positive outlook. Just don’t place any bets on how long that positive outlook will last. Here are a few happy things that have happened in my life lately. My husband and I went out for breakfast. It was midweek, we were both busy, but we met up and had a delicious breakfast and some nice conversation. If I was a fancy blogger this is where you would get an arty picture of eggs. Since I am not fancy you will just have to imagine…
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Weekend Meanderings
We woke up this morning to a dusting of snow and my daughter couldn’t be happier. She promptly went outside to investigate the footprints in the snow, (probably just the neighbor’s cat) make snow angels, and create some complicated game that required paths in the snow and an involved back story. I love that she is still young enough to be made happy by an inch of snow. Of course, my son is also happy, because it is only an inch of snow so he doesn’t have to shovel. Last night we went to my parent’s house to celebrate my brother and sister-in-law’s tenth wedding anniversary. We don’t see a…
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Little Adventures and Interesting Things
It was 65 degrees. At the end of December. On the east coast of the United States. That is just crazy. But it does mean that we were able to go for a walk and we didn’t even need jackets. Actually, the kids and I went for a walk, my husband went for a motorcycle ride since his ankles are still not fully recovered after spraining them a few weeks ago. But who would think he would be getting his motorcycle out of the garage at the end of December? He was a very happy man. I drove my kids slightly crazy by continually stopping to take pictures, though my…
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Pick yourself up, dust yourself off…
In my husband’s case, this was literally necessary. I mentioned last week that the kids were going to my parents for the weekend. We were going to have the whole weekend to ourselves. Just imagine, eat what we want, talk about what we want, do what we want, for a whole 48 hours. This doesn’t happen very often so we had really built it up into a big thing in our heads. So, let’s set the scene. The kids are all packed, I am upstairs almost dressed for our dinner out after we drop the kids off. We are supposed to leave in five minutes. My husband walks down the…
