This Thanksgiving was full of new experiences. In 15 years of marriage, we’d NEVER traveled for this holiday. Until this year. With our regular dinner companions, my sister and her family, now living in Missouri, we knew this Thanksgiving had the potential to be very sad for all of us. So what better way to [...]

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Still. Sick. I wanted to come up with something HI-larious to write about Tuesday’s birthday celebration, but my brain’s just not operating at full capacity. Or, as anyone who was on the Twitter earlier today can tell you, I might possibly have used up all my wit and creativity in 140-character bursts. At any rate, [...]

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Pool: Where we’re going this afternoon. Packing: What I should be doing for our trip to Missouri in two days. Pestering: What my girls have been doing as a tag team all morning, resulting in this strange and skimpy post. So blame them. Pickled peppers: What Charlie did with his jalapeno harvest on Sunday, gassing [...]

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Good Saturday! This is “I Should Be Cleaning” Day. (Technically, we celebrate that holiday here EVERY day.) But since I’m here, I’ll let you in on what is to come next week sometime: Charlie and Hannah went on an outing to pick up our farm-raised meat from the CSA*** this morning. ***Community-sponsored agriculture: Where non-farmers [...]

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