sunday 11/8: on the docket for today

FatJ:
-raking with ryan
-football watching?
-no Vikings
-getting dragged to have a family picture taken
Ryan:
-raking with dada
-hopefully napping
-getting dragged to have a family picture taken while running around like a crazy man
Me:
-leisurely morning watching others rake
-neighbor’s baby shower
-taking my family to have our family picture taken
-hopefully cooking [...]

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big pile of junk

Today when I was blow drying my hair, Ryan took all of his toys that have been up in our room and piled them in the middle of the floor. He said he was going to the beach, and these were his ‘beach toys.’ I went back to blow drying my hair, and for the [...]

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the bobtoon

The last time my brother posted something on his blog was back in July when he hosted a Pontoon Boat Naming Contest. He had folks submit name ideas for the pontoon boat that resides at the family cabin. Suggestions poured in, and then from those, each family member got to submit a vote for their [...]

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tft: trying to avoid germs

**I’m hosting a guest blogger today. It’s my friend Jen- she’s a mom of two girls, ages 2.5 and 7 months- and she and her husband are in disagreement about trying to avoid getting sick by keeping her toddler out of preschool. She wrote the following, and is looking for other parents’ opinions.**
Jen says…
I am [...]

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bullet-point Wednesday!

Day four of November, and I already have nothing to say. Here are some bullet-points of current goings-on…

We are beginning what is sure to be a long, drawn-out process of reconfiguring our home in preparation for this new baby. We have two bedrooms on our main floor, one of which we’ve been using as an [...]

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halloween, part 2

On to the trick or treating…we hyped that up bigtime as well. We told Ryan all about going door to door, asking for candy by saying trick or treat, and then going to the next house to do it all over again. He was excited. He got to try out his maiden trick or treat [...]

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halloween, part 1

We saved our pumpkin carving for the morning of the big day. We had done some hyping of the whole carving experience to Ryan, and I think he was excited about it. So it was a pretty large bummer when FatJ went out into the garage to fetch our pumpkin-patch pumpkin, and the thing basically [...]

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it’s november!!

And that means it’s National Blog Posting Month! (NaBloPoMo to make it official. Although I’ve not signed up with this site, so I guess I’m not official.)
I’ve done it before- two years in a row now to be exact- and I’m going to go for it again in November 2009. {Click on these links November [...]

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he went to europe…

…and all I got was a lousy newspaper.
(J/K dear!!) Deep down I knew he’d return with nothing for me, so before he left I requested that he at least bring me back a foreign periodical. I enjoy reading publications from other lands- I like hearing a different country’s perspective on things and reading their ads. [...]

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weirdo

When asked today if he wanted to walk down the block to watch the excavators and skid steers and black toppers work on resurfacing some nearby tennis courts, Ryan decisively hollered NO! No no no!! No walk!! I brought up the idea a few more times (because *I* really wanted to go for a walk), [...]

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