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Goodbye 2012

The last few months have been mostly pretty good for us, I’m pleased to say. Both of the girls and I were briefly sick with a fever about a month ago. If it was a flu virus, it wasn’t too terribly nasty. Then the girls both came down with a cough, which lasted for a […]

Why I’ll avoid Samsung in the future…

When you spend over $800 on a nice new flatscreen TV, you kinda expect it to last more than a couple years, right? There’s really no excuse for a pricy piece of equipment from a big name brand to fail so soon after purchase, but that’s exactly what has happened to a huge number of […]

Pumpkin Patch 2012

Another year, and another visit to Joan’s Farm and Pumpkin Patch! Last year I think we carried them around in backpacks, but this year since they’re so much more independently mobile, we just let them walk around by themselves. They had a blast exploring the grounds and checking out the animals. Naturally, they weren’t quite […]

Camping Out

Last weekend Janet and I got to take the girls on their first camping trip! We’ve been looking forward to this for a long time, partly because we’ve missed doing things like this ourselves, but also because we really want our daughters to come to love the kind of outdoor fun that we enjoyed so […]

“Are you happy?”

The girls have begun learning about emotions – happy, sad, frustrated. Dan shared a story with me recently that I thought was very cute and wanted to share with our family and friends. He had gone into the girls’ room one morning when I was at work and shared the following conversation with Elizabeth.

Elizabeth: […]