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… the day the school supply display is discovered.
That would have happened today. In Target. About 11am local time.
Every time the kids start wearing my nerves thin, the school supplies magically show up in the store and remind me that summer break is temporary. This joyous revelation is usually accompanied by the parting of the [...]

Some random updates. Mostly about school news. With a wee bit of knitting.
1) Big news in the house is that Madeleine got her braces this week. I’ll be a good mom and spare her the embarrassment of having her picture plastered (again) on the internet. Bad daddy!  M’s not a happy camper. Yes from the [...]

For a brief background to this conversation, Sarah (8) has taken to slamming her door. She was warned that one more slam would lead to her door being removed from the hinges. Slamming stopped for about a week. Until one magic evening.
SLAM.
Door removed.
Fast forward a few days …
Mom: Sarah, have you learned your lesson not [...]

C2: Aren’t olives the best thing?
C2: Beside family and friends and nachos?
C3: and pie!

I was just asked who I voted for when John Quincy Adams ran for president.
:::sigh:::

I’ve been stealthily knitting away on my Deep in the Forest mittens. I think they are looking quite nice. Except for one spot:

See it? There at the braid join? Looks a bit crappy. =( I fussed with the braid join a few times and decided that little bump is just a peril of knitting the [...]

And it’s still snowing. Sandy enjoyed a little early morning romp in the white stuff.

Schools are closed. Kids are home. Kids have been awake since 6am when they heard Jack whisper “snow day”. Needless to say they bolted out fo bed so they could enjoy every minute of their snow day. Currently, the forecast says [...]