Turning 27!

For my birthday this year (on Wednesday) I am going to go to the Oregon Coast with nearly all of my closest friends and family, live in a beach house, eat 3 square meals a day, plus entirely too many\’c2\~ junk-food snacks, drink lots of coffee and do absolutely NO cooking, cleaning, or dish-washing for [...]

Monica, at One

I feel bad that I have nearly every cute thing Judah did when he was little typed out, printed, and in a folder, while poor Monica will barely know anything about her young self. So I thought I’d type up a small update, so that people who don’t see her often will know what she’s [...]

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Monica – One Year Old!

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Monica turned one on May 19.\’c2\~ We celebrated her birthday by going out for pizza – a bad idea. We forgot how long one has to wait in a normal restaurant for food, and when the pizza finally came, it was too spicy for the boys.\’c2\~ A lesson learned – repeated, really.\’c2\~ However, we went [...]

Ding, Dong, the Cat is Gone!

Today a lady came and took our cat away.\’c2\~ No longer will we be supporting an outdoor cat from which we get little benefit and much frustration in the form of a much abused screen door. Not to mention guilt when the cat has to live outside without so much as a shed in when [...]