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We’ve been getting a lot of foot traffic lately! Yesterday evening, after dark, a youngish environmentalist showed up on my doorstep asking for donations. Yeah, right. I told Michael he would’ve been proud of me for how firm I was. No, I didn’t yell and wasn’t impolite, just very… firm. But he did ask me [...]

It seems like Monica has gone from being a tiny helpless infant to a little girl in the last month! Not only is she crawling, but she’s eating finger foods, (she kind of skipped spoon-feeding and went right to cheerios, graham crackers, peas, cooked beans, rice, small pieces of leaf on the floor, etc) playing [...]

For all of you who were wondering, Michael appears to be recovering well from his surgery with no unexpected ramifications from having two gall-bladders. He didn’t recover as quickly as he’d hoped – he worked a part day last Wednesday and even less on Thursday because the vicodin they’d prescribed for pain made him nauseated [...]

Michael successfully had his gall bladders removed today. Yes, that’s right, his gall bladders, plural. Apparently he had two of them, which was rather unexpected. They told me only 1 in 50,000 people has that situation. The surgery went well, but due to this unforseen duplicity on the part of his internal organs, the doctor [...]

I see a house in chaos. Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. After a week of sickness, first Michael, then the kids, and then, finally, when everybody else was starting to feel better, yours truly, the house looks like a horde of heathen ran through taking everything out of its appointed place, throwing it on the [...]

My little sister stayed with me after our parents returned home after their trip to Denver. She was going to leave on Monday but the snow in the Gorge prevented her, but today she finally was able to make it home on a Greyhoud bus. While she was here we drank a lot of coffee, [...]

Just so all of you fond grandparents and great-grandparents know, my little 7 1/2 month old is crawling! It’s amazing how fast it happened, really! One day she could only get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forward, and a few days later she’s exploring everything from 0 to 10 inches [...]

While I was asking the boys what they wanted for lunch today, Judah said, “I want to be healthy, so I want fruit. And crackers with cheese melted on them.”\par
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Well, at least he knows that fruit is healthy.

Again. And it’s sticking right now. Oh dear.