Puppeteer

We were sitting on the bus – yes, that’s right, ‘my‘ car is getting fixed again. This time Leif’s brother Kyle is doing the work. So this time I’m thinking that I’ll have a car again, it’ll run, and how awesome, it sounds like he’s got the leaking sunroof fixed.  I swear, his whole family [...]

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High Orange

Mme was in the school office when I arrived to sign Cameron out early from school today, and we chatted on the way to her classroom about how Cameron bugged her all day. C’est l’heure? C’est l’heure? Is it time? He was so excited that he bounced into my arms, then couldn’t decide what to [...]

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Pancakes!

As a kid, the actual day seemed somewhat random. Sometime in February, after Valentine’s Day, there would be Pancake Day. Mom would make her amazing hearty stick-to-your-ribs pancakes for dinner, and we’d get to drench them in real maple syrup. It’s a tradition I like to pass on to my family now. So today I [...]

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Not Enough Hours

  Somehow there just don’t seem to be enough hours in a day. After snuggling with Cameron for the endless squirms and fusses until he falls asleep, doing household chore-ish things, watching Sons of Anarchy with Leif, and sleeping, I just haven’t been finding the time to blog. Maybe I should forgo sleeping.   Ohyeah. [...]

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Treasure Hunts in Parallel

Melanie, what’s this say?   J-u-i-c-e. Sound it out. Juice, that’s right.   Off Kate dashed to look in the fridge, under the juice carton, where indeed she found another heart. She needed occasional clarification when trying to read my handwriting, but mostly just needed encouragement to sound out words.   Coffee pot! Under the [...]

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