Emmy is SEVEN
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Happy 7th birthday my sweet girl! It’s amazing how seven years have gone by since we were staring at this little baby in the hospital, eagerly waiting to take her home. This year your birthday was on a Thursday. I worked cafeteria and I found you eating lunch, decked out in a special sticker and Continue Reading »
2022
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#bestnine2022 2022 started out ok enough — we were wrapping up our 2nd full year of the pandemic and starting the third. Vaccines were plentiful and things did not seem as grim. But we still didn’t feel comfortable having a bunch of people in our home, so Emmy’s birthday in February was a winter caravan Continue Reading »
2020
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2020. I’m not even sure how to tackle this one. My old end of the year recap formula of what we did, who we saw and where we went just doesn’t seem applicable. The year started out normal enough but the pandemic was getting closer and closer to home and on a Thursday afternoon in Continue Reading »
Summer 2016 in Photos
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Summer slipped by without many posts — here’s my attempt to capture a taste of it… Girl loves her friends How many eyes are in this photo? Big hair. Don’t care. First road trip in the minivan! Someone insisted Elmo sit up front. Hiking in Atlanta The kids begged us to take them here. See Continue Reading »
Macro Micro
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The other day, Mark brought home a beautiful bouquet of flowers. He said they were really expensive. (Um. They were free — leftover at one of his work events — but hey, I’m not picky.) Last Christmas, he gave me a little set of clip on lenses for my phone. I decided to try out Continue Reading »
24+ month!
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I’m not even quite sure how to start off this post — it gets more overwhelming to think about as more time passes. I’m definitely behind on things but doing what I can. I suppose I might start where the last baby update ended… the day after Iris turned 21 months, she and I were Continue Reading »
Currents: Cars, Yarn and Holes
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So I received my first yarn catalog in the mail. It was unsolicited but completely welcome. And now I want all the yarn. I just want to make things. And more things. I want to make all the things!!! But there hasn’t been much time. We are trying to get some landscaping done before winter Continue Reading »
What did my garden grow?
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Last year I snapped monthly pics of what was blooming. This year, I was not so diligent – though I guess technically, most of it is the same so once you see one marigold, you’ve seen them all right? So I’m lumping all my 2013 garden-ish photos into a single post. Enjoy. Related posts: Garden Continue Reading »
How do you like them (pine)apples?
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So my brother-in-law, Michael, grew this pineapple. He has an incredible green thumb.Jessica said he started the pineapple plant from the top of a store bought fruit when they moved into their house in 2008. She said they get a pineapple about every other year and this one started growing in the winter. The weather is Continue Reading »
That one time when I accidentally grew some melons
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A couple of years ago, I asked for a composter for my birthday. Mark delivered and soon we were happily feeding it our food scraps and reducing our trash. I even etched out a special place for it next to the air conditioner. This picture is from last year before I mulched this area – Continue Reading »