Friday, December 18, 2009

Nate saves the seals

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Yesterday was Nate's classroom party. Heaven forbid you call it a Christmas Party, or use red and green decorations. Sheesh. So there ...

An old cardboard box

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I was home for a very brief time yesterday. It was a fortuitous break in my day, let me tell you. I was in between tutoring, and working in...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Because I can be counted on to say the wrong thing.

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Ken's mom arrived on Saturday, and spent two days with us before heading off about an hour south of us to spend the rest of this week w...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Christmas Light Bokeh

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I've been muffing around with the Christmas lights in the front yard. And after last week's "cold snap" (can I even call ...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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I have 48 hours until my mother in law arrives. My sister in law left at 5:45 this morning. (She'd been staying with us while going to ...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Donuts with Dad

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Donuts with Dad. Nate's class had this wonderful event the other day called "Donuts with Dad'. The kids all wrote letters to t...
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Sunday, December 06, 2009

Grey hair

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Grey Hair. I don't wonder why I have grey hair any more. In the last big storm, the wind was strong enough to rip one end of our gutter ...
Saturday, December 05, 2009

Adventures in portraits...

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Christmas Portrait. Take One. Kids! Come here. I need you to stop what you're doing right now, and come downstairs. Oh, and Skip and...
Friday, December 04, 2009

The trouble with Spanx...

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Ok, maybe it's the trouble with FAUX-Spanx... For the un-initiated, Spanks is this super-bionic ultra-stretch foundation garment that su...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Just shoot me now...

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I just got off the phone... and I would like to die. Yesterday, I took Kelly out for a bit in the afternoon, and we ended up in one of the l...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Excess

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I started off this morning thinking that, hey, we're off to a late start, so we don't have as much time, and maybe I'll just get...

Black Friday, 4am. aka "TRADITION!"

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A few weeks ago, Alton Brown visited Ken's work. He may have made some comment that of course we are going to cook a turkey for Thanksg...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Memory Lane 16. Deja vu all over again.

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I'm running so late right now! I really should write a story, or something, but I'm about 2 minutes away from being gonna-be-in-trou...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Memory Lane 15. Everything's funnier with a putty nose.

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I've been going through this backlog of old photos that my mom scanned in a few years back, and it's just bringing back this flood o...

4am...

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I am going to pay for this, most likely. It's 4am. I'm up. I've been up for an hour and a half. But I've not been lollyga...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Memory Lane 14. Love That Dog

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Skippy... the dog, not the child. When I was a kid, I think first grade, my folks got a dog. It was this little sheltie-mix puppy from the ...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Memory Lane 13. The Boy with a Purse

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I have just returned from a swanky fundraiser evening. I'm all dolled up, and if it wasn't for the fact that I just beat back a mig...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Memory Lane 12. Beaches.

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When I was a kid, we lived in and around Vancouver for about 10 years. In the summers, we'd often take day trips when Dad had a day off...