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the christmas quilt picture story of 2007

December 21, 2011

Welcome to the Fifth Annual Posting of the Christmas Quilt Picture Story. This quilt was given to me at my first baby shower. Each year my children are subjected to posing with it for holiday photographs. In 2007, I again dragged the kids down to a large department store portrait studio. It was the same studio chain [...]

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the photos that caused a vacation

June 17, 2011

This is my favorite photo. It is my boys and me on a sailboat in St. Thomas 4 years ago. We went on vacation with my in-laws in celebration of their 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was a wonderful week of family covered in water and sand. When we returned, I made a Shutterfly photo book [...]

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summer reading evaluation

June 8, 2011

It has been a struggle to get Ryan(10) to read. It is unlikely in his 10 years he has read ONE WORD that wasn’t required, requested or assigned. I have had to come to the conclusion that he isn’t a reader. It is a part of him that I don’t fully understand, but he comes [...]

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mother of the year

May 4, 2011

OK, I feel it might be therapeutic to air that there are a few basic mothering duties in which I big, bold, capital letter FAIL. It isn’t that I don’t WANT to do these, but often my best intentions are procrastinated to a point of absurdity. For instance, Until today none of my three boys [...]

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wedding perspective

April 29, 2011

I was just a few months older than Ryan is now when Lady Diana and Prince Charles got married. My mom and I stayed up late/got up early so that I could watch the entire event. Watching live TV was our only option. When you are 11 and a pretty girl in a distant country [...]

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trade restrictions

April 26, 2011

Ryan has a deal for you. Ryan has a deal for anyone. It usually involves money, Legos or something he considers rare. When something is rare, it is worth more money or Legos. And if the rare item happens to BE money or Legos…then it is worth even MORE money or Legos. Since he has [...]

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car line

April 4, 2011

My kids only go to school three days a week, but that means that three days a week I endure the dreaded car line. 5 years ago when I received the 2 pages of instructions on how to negotiate the dreaded car line, I studied them faithfully until they were committed to memory. The first [...]

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genetic soup

March 2, 2011

One of the things my husband and I have noticed after observing our three boys is that in our gene pool there is a dominant gene for persistence. My highly scientific research has uncovered this genetic material in 2/3 of my children. I am not even sure that persistence is a strong enough word to [...]

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and a partridge in a pear tree

December 26, 2010

Two boys a dancin’. One lord a leapin’.

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how to send a boy to school in early american costume

December 8, 2010

4th grade boy in American colonist costume

The school that my boys attend hosts a festival each year celebrating what they are studying in history. This year Ryan’s 4th grade class presented A Colonial Holiday Ball. As a fifth year parent in the school, I know to be prepared. It is usually best to find out BEFORE Halloween what the festival theme [...]

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you are not chinese and other mutterings

November 12, 2010

Ryan has been fascinated by China for awhile. We have read books about China. We have recorded TV shows about China. We have answered quite a few questions about China. The other night we were walking and he declared that he was Chinese. Out of the blue. I am Chinese. Uh…no. There was no talking [...]

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