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Hiking

March 12, 2012 Journal

Olympic National Park, Washington State, 2006. I’ve been fighting hiking withdrawals since Christmas. I love hiking, and there isn’t much of it around here. Sure, you can hike in the swamp, and I do – but it’s not the same. The best hikes are found where the topography actually changes, and it doesn’t really do [...]

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Weekend Recap & Random Sunday Photo 03/11/12

March 11, 2012 Weekend Recap & Random Sunday Photo

The above photo is from the summer of 2010 when I taught my 2-year-old daughter how to do laundry. She started with folding dish rags and hand towels into clumsy piles, but now at age 4 she makes perfect stacks. She has also moved up to underwear and socks, and can fold almost all of [...]

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Saturday is Gardening Day 03/10/12

March 11, 2012 Urban Gardening

I was so busy gardening on Saturday that I forgot to post, which means I’ve technically failed Nablopomo. Buuuuut I’ve decided to just keep going like it didn’t happen. So here’s what I’m up to in the urban garden this weekend. After looking at my very barren front porch I decided it needed the jungle [...]

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Judge-y Fun

March 9, 2012 Journal

Last night I stumbled upon the article Apologies To The Parents I Judged Four Years Ago, and had a good laugh out loud. Kara Gebhart Uhl basically describes the process I’ve seen dozens of modern parents go through (including myself) and it’s always funny. You really wince when you have that “a ha” moment realizing [...]

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Baby Vamp

March 8, 2012 Journal

My sick baby is better and is going back to school today. Sometime during his cold he was begging for a pacifier but I couldn’t find any. Then I remembered this costume pacifier we’d bought a few years ago. He didn’t mind the substitute at all. Then I got the following song stuck in my [...]

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Little Boys

March 7, 2012 Journal

My son is sick this week so he’s home from school. He’s crabby and lethargic, but he’s still trying to play. It was so pretty outside this morning I let him romp in the yard (well, our tiny sliver of a city yard anyway). I love to watch little boys play. All the little sound [...]

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Not Abandoning, Just Pacing Myself

March 6, 2012 Journal

Abandoned factory on the St. Lawrence River, Montreal Canada, August 2011. When I took on the Nablopomo challenge I forgot that I had houseguests this week and would want to catch up, and didn’t know that my 2-year-old son would get sick (with a fever and bloody nose). I won’t use it as an excuse [...]

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A Carnival 4th Birthday

March 5, 2012 Journal

The happy birthday girl. She has a bruise on her forehead because some kid hit her over the head with a toy on the playground. Sigh. Growing up is hard. My daughter was born during carnival season so every year her birthday is usually on or near Mardi Gras. This year I combined our annual [...]

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Weekend Recap & Random Sunday Photo 03/04/12

March 4, 2012 Weekend Recap & Random Sunday Photo

The Last Piece This Sunday’s photo is a hunk of brick that I keep on my bookshelf in the New Orleans and Louisiana section. It’s the last piece I have of the house I grew up in. I pulled it from the ground of the glassed-in patio where I spent nearly every day playing as [...]

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Saturday is Gardening Day 03/03/12

March 3, 2012 Urban Gardening

Every Saturday I check the state of things in the garden and do any transplanting or maintenance that’s needed. When possible I take the kids out with me to stick their hands in the soil and ‘help’. My son loves to obliterate everything with the garden hose, while my daughter likes to behead the flowers. [...]

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