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Wishing the best sister (mine) the most wonderful birthday. May the year ahead be eventful and full of delights.

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I find myself already forgetting what we’ve done and when so far this summer, so I am going to take a moment to summarize before it’s a complete blur.
Week 1
I had all four kids home with me. I can’t recall much else other than that. Dex worked at home one day and of course had […]

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Now that it’s been several hours, my back muscles are tightening into bands of pain. The ribs beneath are pushing back in protest in their tender, bruised state. Right elbow is whimpering for attention but hey, you’re only abraded, you’ll live. Right calf (ext.), the early troublemaker, is soldiering on. It’s the back. From neck […]

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I have been following the amazing trip of Jen and family as they journey cross country from west to east and back again. I am reminded of our own long, incredible journey last summer… the days in the minivan, the unloading and reloading at hotels along the way, the weeks with extended family… it was […]

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A broad heading, I know - what I want. But I have been thinking for so long about what I want for this family and I feel compelled to capture some of the key aspects, the less tangible things. Of course we need (want/need) a bigger house. Four bedrooms at least, five or six would […]

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We were going to wait until it was officially Father’s Day to present Dex with his gift, but the big brown truck arrived yesterday and if I’d made Edward wait FOUR WHOLE DAYS his head would have burst in anticipation (and mine from the pestering and pleading). So last night we plopped the box in front of […]

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During the week of school vacation I have:

taken all four kids grocery shopping for a week’s worth of groceries
taken the three younger kids to Home Depot, where I bought mulch, rocks, and spray paint
taken all four kids for a walk around the neighborhood cul-de-sac

These may not rank high in the list of major accomplishments, but to […]

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I’m too tired to be clever today, so I’ll just give you the list:

getting the house ready to sell, including landscaping, decluttering, sorting, selling stuff, and doing touch up work, and which also includes researching the local housing market, and which *also* includes researching the three (?) possible places we might end up living once […]

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I am literally pausing in the middle of my all-the-crap-I-have-to-do-before-bed routine to say this:
…and another thing I hate about winter is all the freakin’ extra laundry!
There. Phew. Got that out of my system. I was just standing in front of my washing machine, digging through soggy socks and layers of undershirts and sweaters, dreaming of […]

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One of the things I wanted to know after Davey was born was what he would look like. I had barely a moment to gaze into his eyes before he was whisked off to the Special Care Nursery, then another too brief visit a few hours later when we were told for the first time […]

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