At some point after her third birthday and before her fourth birthday, Ava realized that birthday parties are something that happen every single year. And she has been looking forward to her fourth birthday ever since. As the calendar pages have turned closer to May, her dreams about her fairy princess birthday party have grown [...]
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it’s almost my party and i’ll plan if i want to
Posted in the ones about ava, the ones about merriment, tagged Birthday parties, family, mothering on May 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
viva la flippa-floppa
Posted in the ones about merriment, the ones for fun, Uncategorized, tagged fashion, motherhood on April 12, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Thanks to her riveting tale of Caroline meets Shamu, Big Mama has been my source of daily laughter for nearly a year. It’s true. She reminds of the warmer world that I once called home, so when I heard that she was a throwing a party, a fiesta, well I had to come. Stylishly late [...]
hello again
Posted in the ones about friends, the ones about merriment on April 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Hi. I’m at my secret writing hideaway. My laptop is open to a blank page. My pomegranate green tea is cooling to my left. My fingers are reacquainting themselves with my keyboard. It’s been three weeks since I’ve been here, Somehow it feels like I’ve been away on vacation, but I’ve actually been very much [...]
extreme daddy
Posted in the ones about ava, the ones about hungryman, the ones about merriment, tagged children, family, fatherhood, sledding, winter on March 22, 2008 | 17 Comments »
The following contains photographs of a potentially disturbing nature. Please be assured that no small children were seriously harmed during the taking of these photographs. Here is HungryMan doing his pre-sledding warm-up, primarily comprised of decapitating today’s snowman. Once properly stretched, he loaded the family in our car and drove to the hill of his [...]
more white space
Posted in the ones about ava, the ones about merriment, tagged children, family, sledding, winter on March 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
When I mentioned the refreshing nature of white space yesterday, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind. But then again, I grew up here. So what do you possibly do with a world of white? First you have to do a lot of this: Then you go and search for the famed hill of [...]
the cruelest trick by far
Posted in the ones about ava, the ones about merriment, the ones about surprises, tagged children, ducks, family, St. Patrick's Day, winter on March 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
was covering our grass with a fresh fleece of snow. I’m not sure how they managed it, but every spring-hopeful branch was wrapped in white. Here’s a view of our neighbors back yard which Ava claims is Mr. Mcgregor’s garden. She loves to watch our neighbor working in there and makes up stories about the [...]
happy valentines day!
Posted in the ones about merriment on February 14, 2008 | 10 Comments »
shuffle, shuffle, fall
Posted in the ones about merriment, tagged children, family, friends, ice-skating, winter on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After an over-extended family reunion, the local clouds parted ways and the bright blue sky reigned over a balmy day of twenty-five degrees above zero. In hopes of making the most of this atmospheric anomaly, Ava and I packed up our skates, gathered up our friends, and headed outside for our monthly dose of Vitamin [...]
we’re having a heat wave
Posted in the ones about merriment, tagged family, ice-skating 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 [...]
share your toys
Posted in the ones about merriment on December 11, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Once upon a time there was a girl who really liked parties, so she invited a few of her favorite people to come to her house. And she knew that guy she married really liked food, so she made lots of food. Her friends knew that he really liked food, so they brought lots of [...]
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