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How can you top a post in which you shake hands with Barack Obama?? You don’t even try. We’re back with our feet on the ground doing things that we always do. The routine. And we’re getting ready for our trip – in five short days. Wishing you a clean start. We like our clean […]
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Sorry for one more political post. But just in case, you didn’t see this over the weekend here’s the entire clip. Click and enjoy political satire at its best –
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Do you remember Picture Day in school?? Well, here are our Fall School Pictures. Alex in Fourth Grade – all cheesy smile in a grown up outfit. And Kata, oh our Kata. It was her Very First Picture Day…she was ::so:: excited, can you tell? And yes, at some point Bella’s preschool will do a […]
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I’ve been reading a lot of poetry lately. I have to admit that I miss writing it. I did so much of it back in my teenage years. But last night’s sunset (I know, not another sunset photo) was so spectacular that all I could think of was the Emily Dickinson poem that begins – […]
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Because I saw this on Jib Jab and thought I’d have some fun. Just think Troy and Gabriella some odd 25 years later…scary isn’t it? Scarier still is that Ken was the Captain of the basketball team a la Troy and I was, well, the Academic Geek Girl with AP Physics and AP Calculus…so there […]
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Happiness is a sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it. ~Mark Twain We’ve fallen into a happy, predictable rhythm of school and after-school events. We’ve gotten over the initial “shifting gears” frenzy. And it’s not too hectic now so I am trying hard to stop […]
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It was completely majestic when it started but now we’re getting a little weary. Perhaps it’s all the tape delayed late evenings…I am so not used to staying up until midnight anymore. Perhaps it’s the kids saying, “Not the Olympics, again?” over and over. Perhaps it’s the fact that the Swimming, Diving and Gymnastics events […]