Yi Dianr

I promise I’m not ignoring you. I know I’ve been a bad blog friend of late. It’s just that we’re switching houses. Little by little. And if you don’t hear from me for a few days next week, it will undoubtedly be due to the fact that our internet service has not been connected at [...]

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First Things First

Jonah (age 5): Mommy, are we moving today?
Me: No, Jonah, we’ve got a few days yet.
Jonah: Can’t we move something today?
Me: No, Jonah. Not today.
Jonah: Couldn’t we at least move the toilet?

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Baby Food

If you’ve ever wondered how we as a society convinced ourselves that the way we’ve been feeding our babies for thousands of years was suddenly unacceptable, or lately, one option out of many, check out this article in The New Yorker.
It’s a short, sharp account of the West’s temperamental attitude toward motherhood over the last [...]

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Moving Right Along

So it looks like we’ll actually pack up our actual belongings and actually move in like a week, actually. For reals. The guys from Chico had no other jobs to do, so they set the house up in record time, and the county people were slightly more cooperative than usual (although they still gave Jenn [...]

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Oh, yeah . . . There’s this thing called ‘video’!

And I totally forgot that we bought that little camcorder for the girls last year. Then I remembered. So I borrowed it.
And yes, that is a Christmas tree in the background. And yes, we are actually moving next week. And yes, I probably should start packing, or something. I’ll just get right on that.

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About Ella

It’s been a while since I posted an Ella update. She’s way past four months old already, so I kind of missed that little mile marker. Even so, it seems wrong to mention her without pictures, but those will just have to wait until a replacement camera recommends itself. So in the meantime, here are [...]

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It’s 1 a.m. Do you know where your husband is?

Mine is at the church, playing a World War I strategy game called Axis and Allies with all the other menfolk. Last time they finished just before 1 a.m.
I thought, Surely it’s just the shiny newness. Next time they’ll cut it off at a decent hour and finish up some other time.
It’s 1:15.
How did we [...]

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The Midyear Report

Well, since somebody asked, and since the school year is almost halfway done (at least for traditional schools), here’s the latest on the tiny, private school which happens to reside in our house.
1. Goals are good.
I’ve never made written, hard and fast goals for our school. The closest I ever came to doing this was [...]

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Yeah, Bruce Banner.

“When I grow up, I’m going to be the Incredible Hulk! But I’m going to wear stretchy pants.”
–Jonah, age 5

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Poor Camera

It’s dead.
I think for my new one I’m going to go with something a little more serious, like with interchangeable lenses and such, so I can learn more photography as I go.
Suggestions?

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