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Monthly Archive for October, 2010

Super Friends

We blame Baron. We had Simon’s costume all figured out for this year (he was going to be a hobbit), then Baron had to go and spoil it by introducing Simon to super heroes. We thought it cute and fun when Simon starting putting out his hand and making “Spcchhhh” sounds as he “threw fire” […]

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My Cambria

It’s now been just over three weeks since I brought Cambria home. It’s been a long time, fifteen years to be precise, since I had a new cat (as opposed to kitten) in my house. I had forgotten what those early days of slinking around and darting under the bed are like. It can be […]

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Photo Catch-Up

Ooof. I got a bit behind. Partly, this is a matter of my rather busy schedule of late. But mostly it’s because ever since I got my new computer, I’ve been stuck with Vista. And the geniuses at Microsoft decided to strip the “Publish photos to the web” function from Vista. So instead of selecting […]

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

You really can’t. We are back as of last night from our annual trip to the mountains–not unsurprisingly, the mountains in October on a clear and sunny weekend made for a much better trip than last year’s trip to the mountains in December during a snow-storm. Thank goodness. Who needs a vacation like that again? […]

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Precision Timing

I’m still trying to decide if this is good timing, bad timing, or given-what-is-not-bad timing. I’m thinking the third… Sunday was Simon’s big kids’ birthday party at Sunny Acres Farm. We invited his first friends Sophie and Leah and his entire class to come out this barely commercialized farm to enjoy pumpkin painting, a hayride, […]

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Four

Dear Simon, You turned four yesterday, and I could not be happier for you. I mean it! This year I am not going to introduce any moist eyes or hand wringing into the equation. Your birthday will include little nostalgia, few observations about the speeding up of time, and no regrets about how far you […]

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Popular

It’s all about popular! It’s not about aptitude It’s the way you’re viewed So it’s very shrewd to be Very very popular Like me! (Glinda singing “Popular” in Wicked) The writing has been on the wall for quite some time; I’ve just willfully ignored all the signs. Like many parents, I had wanted my child […]

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Tickle Kisses

I’m a big believer in the little moments of life. Weddings, graduations, and birthdays make for better photo album entrants, but often it’s the smaller moments that linger in our memories and make a more lasting impression. Where Simon is concerned, I’m expecting memories of our playing tickle kisses to take center stage when I’m […]

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Introducing Cambria

A week ago today, I brought home my new furry bundle of joy, Cambria. I didn’t intentionally set out to upend Matt’s plans for a pair of kittens in November, but he’s (yes, he’s a boy) clearly not the pair of 5-10-month-old kittens we planned to adopt in November. It began on Saturday, when I […]

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The Promised Land

All good things come to those who wait. I’m starting to believe that. After a few challenging months, life again seems good and easy and natural. I feel, in all honesty, that we have arrived at a domestic promised land. For one, Simon has at last made great progress on the second phase of potty […]

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