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Our Weekend of Gluttony

By admin | Published: May 31, 2012

This past weekend, Jesse’s sister came up from Florida for a quick visit. Her birthday was Sunday. The week leading up to her visit, we planned and shopped and cleaned and got ready. In my excitement, I forgot that the weekend was Memorial Day weekend, since I was thinking of it primarily as Becki’s Birthday […]

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West Virginia Weekend

By admin | Published: May 25, 2012

A few weekends back, we went to West Virginia with Joannie and Tim to visit my parents. We had loads of fun–eating Christy’s hot dogs (chili + slaw + toasted bun = heaven), playing Scrabble late at night, and enjoying the mountains. The trip was a brief one–up on Saturday, back on Sunday–but we packed […]

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Report Card

By admin | Published: February 24, 2012

The last time we were in Florida, my grandmother handed me a cream-colored card, folded in half. I unfolded it and started reading. The document was old, slightly creased, its ink fading a bit. The cursive handwriting looked old too (have we all but lost penmanship these days? I never see pretty handwriting anymore, it […]

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Christmas Snapshots

By admin | Published: January 6, 2012

While opening presents, it’s pretty much a requirement that you wear at least one element of the wrapping. I swear, there was nothing in the egg nog. No, really! Mom and I decided to take silly self-portraits. At first, she didn’t get the “make silly faces” memo. But, she’s a quick learner… Mom and Dad […]

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Transition

By admin | Published: January 4, 2012

The holidays, in scenes: We host a Star Wars-themed Christmas party, and I bake and bake and bake, and our friends come over and howl with laughter over the notoriously bad Star Wars Christmas Special we torture them with. The house is full of happy sounds–talking, laughing, eating. The Christmas tree glows. Our friends compete for […]

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