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Archive for January, 2008

the battle of the bulge

Posted in the ones with questions on January 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »

“This weather is for the birds,” my friend e-mailed me this week. -50˚ with the wind chill, I couldn’t agree more. Except that birds have the sense to fly south! And we, well we are left with this. Which brings us to the battle ranging at the forefront of our preoccupation. How do you pack [...]

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worst case scenario

Posted in the ones about hungryman on January 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »

“Mama, Florida is a really long ways away. If we drive to Florida we are going to have to take Daddy with us. ‘Cause that’s a long ways to go without Daddy. ‘Cause we would be on the highway and you would get all tired and then somebody would crash us and then Daddy wouldn’t [...]

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we’re having a heat wave

Posted in the ones about merriment, tagged , on January 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »

a tropical heat wave… “It’s finally warm enough to go ice-skating!” Growing up where the only ice was found in the freezer, I never thought I’d form such a sentence, let alone experience it. Twenty-two degrees is hardly tropical, but never underestimate the power of relativity. It has been in the negatives (that means below [...]

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ten reasons why i

Posted in the ones about the cold, the ones for fun on January 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »

miss the southwest: TEN NINE EIGHT SEVEN SIX FIVE FOUR THREE oh wait, maybe not the this. I did get an e-mail yesterday Uncle Kim correcting my spelling of the scary black pig–it’s a Javalina not a Havalina. It’s good to know that a hunter can spell his prey. TWO And the number ONE reason [...]

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man of constant hunger

Posted in the ones about hungryman on January 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Last Thursday after a delectable course of three cheese lasagna with spinach and basil and a mixed green salad with sweet peppers and avocados, HungryMan (also known as Nate) headed to the kitchen to prepare himself a man-sized lunch portion. I was helping Ava get ready to go to a reception at church, so he [...]

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-14˚

Posted in the ones about the cold on January 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »

“Why did God make is so cold for me outside? Why does God want me to freeze and all of us?” –Ava

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made you look

Posted in the ones about ava on January 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Ava: Daddy, I’m shivering. Daddy: You need to put your slippers on little girl. Ava: I can’t find them. Daddy: Go look in your room. Ava: [from in her bedroom] Daddy, they’re not in here. I can’t find them. Daddy: Did you look in the living room? Ava: [from living room] They’re not here either. [...]

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sew lovely

Posted in the ones about ava on January 14, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Way back in the fall of 2007, Ava and I were doing a bit of early Christmas shopping and had stopped for a play break in the children’s museum that is Pottery Barn Kids. After completing two loads of laundry, whipping up a tasty bowl of butternut soup, and taking a pint-sized baby for a [...]

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it has been such a long time

Posted in the ones about ava on January 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

since I have seen a band of white on my daughter’s fingertips! Three cheers for progress! One up and nine to go…

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in dublin’s fair city & other ditties

Posted in the ones with prizes on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Congratulations to MCK Mama for guessing four out of the six songs correctly! Here are the snippets and the songs they were snatched from. “I first set my eyes” and “through the streets wide and narrow”–Molly Malone “virgin mama” and “silent night”–Silent Night. “Lift your arms up”–Blue Bowl Down, Ava’s favorite book of the past [...]

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