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Family Home Video: Six hand piano trio
So I meant to post this a few weeks ago, and apparently it failed to upload to Youtube and then I forgot about it. It’s just too funny to pass up, so here it is. Here’s our fun loving, high energy, music loving boy: (This is clearly unedited. If you don’t have the full 4…
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French Kids Eat Everything
I recently read Karen le Billion’s book: “French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters.” (Really I skimmed the book since it was due back at the library before I could finish it.) It was an eye opening book…
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Picking Strawberries
This picture is too funny not to post. One of Scotland’s latest outdoor excitements is picking strawberries (amongst running through sprinklers, playing with the hose, and climbing our rock wall). He can reach the first row of plants and he loves to pluck them off and then come to this step in the garage, sit…
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Family Fun: Edgewater Park
After a pretty tough week, where I saw Tom not more than an hour every day, we enjoyed being able to spend the second half of yesterday together as a family. We tried the Mexican restaurant Villa y Zapata for the first time, and were hugely impressed. We’ll definitely be back. I wish I’d taken…
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Brain dump
I’m not sure why I feel the need to express these random thoughts publicly. Something about the hope that someone is listening and understanding comforting. I got my first speeding ticket yesterday. I cried. —— I missed Claire ALOT while she was gone. I hadn’t realized how much I rely on the social outlet our…
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Home stuff
I have two realtors coming this week to give us a market analysis, and do a walk through. It’s made me see the house through their eyes and realize I really need to start checking off some of the projects we need to finish. But for some reason I just can’t get motivated to do…
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Mmmm, Summer!
This picture is about a month old, but I couldn’t resist! Monday night instead of making dinner I made fresh lemonade and Lemon sorbet. Bring on the summer!
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Nelson Kennedy Ledges Park
Tom had Memorial Day off so we headed out to Nelson Kennedy Ledges Park for some hiking. But this was not regular hiking- it was more of a combo between hiking and spelunking. The small park is home to some extraordinary gelogical features. Deep moss covered ravines carve through gorgeous forest. You can climb down…
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Using modern conveniences
In response to my previous post about how to use modern conveniences to facilitate more healthful living, I had to share an experience I had yesterday. ALDI had their 5 lbs packages of fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts for $5.00 off. So I got 10lbs of chicken for around $5.00! But what to do with…
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50 "to do's" for life
Several years ago my friend Becky Brown, then Nelson encouraged me to make a list of 50 things I wanted to do in life. She’s done the exercise and found it really revealing. I took her up on it, and have kept the list ever since. Tonight, I found it and looked down the list,…