Tag Archives: Family

Buckingham Palace

Every evening before the boys go to bed they are expected to clean up their toys.  Quite often they have to be told more than once but for the most part they know the routine and don’t make too many … Continue reading

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The Cat Conundrum

One nice day in early spring, our neighbor took her daughter to Arkansas for a three week long visit and never came back.  She had told no one of her plans not even her husband of nine years, the father … Continue reading

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Simple Sunday – Stability and Blueberries

For several years I have wanted to plant blueberry bushes in our yard.  For a variety of reasons I have not gotten around to it. This weekend, to celebrate the newfound stability in our lives, I planted three great blueberry … Continue reading

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Serious Mad Props

I don’t know why the props are so serious.  Maybe they’re not serious but mad, in a serious way.  Regardless of the mental state of the props, I like the expression and think that it makes me sound way cooler … Continue reading

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Simple Sunday – Friends & Pie

Yesterday was our first Annual Summer Pie Day.  After breakfast we grabbed some buckets and bowls and walked to our neighborhood blackberry patch, a place the boys have coined Blackberry Alley Instead of saying stop picking in reference to his … Continue reading

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Summer Pie Day

We have celebrated National Pie Day, which falls on January 23rd, for the past two or three years ever since I learned of it’s existence.  Every year my pie enthusiast friends and I lament that the holiday falls during a … Continue reading

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Making a Splash

The sun in the Pacific Northwest has been a fickle creature this summer.  Temperatures have been on the cool side.  Clouds and Rain menacingly make their presence known like a couple of gangsters flicking their switchblades open and closed in … Continue reading

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Thoughts from Yesterday

Cody found the Neurodevelopment doctors appointment to be very, very, boring. Carter loved the (free and volunteer run) sibling playroom at the hospital and it was so much easier for us to engage with the doctor having just Cody with … Continue reading

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Just Boring, Please

July.  It is that time of year again when the appointments I made months ago rear their ugly heads on the kitchen calendar (yes, I am old school and still use a wall calendar for keeping track of my life.)  … Continue reading

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Low Tide Dreaming

Yesterday was the lowest tide of the year in our area. The boys and I went on a tide walk hosted by an organization dedicated to educating the public about marine wildlife and preservation of our beaches.  The gentleman who … Continue reading

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