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fifteen
Huh. Seems I didn’t write a post for the Girl Child’s 14th birthday last year. She turned 14 anyway, and now here we are at 15. Already. Which also means that I have been a mom for 15 years. Those baby days are so far behind me, it’s hard to recall what they were like. […]
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highway to hell
This weekend we are going to spend a few days at Seabrook on the Washington coast, with the Professors. It’s a super cute little planned community with houses that look like they belong in Nantucket. It’s about three hours away and I am looking forward to some ocean air and down time. Except for one […]
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return
Hello, poppets. I spent the past few days in a place where they have sunshine in March and it’s not 40 degrees, visiting friends in San Francisco and spending some girl time in the Napa Valley. It was lovely. The Geek and I met these friends when we all lived in a four-plex on Capital […]
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2013 planty goodness
Yep, March is around the corner, if you can believe that, so it’s time for this year’s installment of Where-The-Plant-Sales-Are. First up is the Seattle Tilth Early Edible Sale, on March 16th. A new location this year, it’s being held at the Pacific Market Center Parking Garage, which seems to be somewhere in the Stadium […]
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one off the list
Disclaimer: The following photos may not be suitable for you orderly types. Consider yourself warned. We have lived in this house for nearly 5 years. As has been previously mentioned, it is small. There are two storage closets – one we use for linens, and the other for everything else. Well, besides the massive piles […]
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outter january
Maybe it’s because we’ve had no snow this year, and only brief spells of really cold weather, but for some reason it seems like spring is just around the corner. The green things in the yard seem confused as well. I am excited for days where we can tire ourselves digging and planting, feeling the […]
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current
I may ramble here, as the bits and pieces in my head are not always logical, do not tumble out in order. They are usually connected, but sometimes only by a wispy thread. Sometimes I go to grab them, but they swim out of focus, or I grab something meant for another bit and can’t […]
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resolve
Seriously. Now that we’ve survived the Holidaze and things are pretty much packed away until next year, I can catch my breath a bit. And consider 2013. This isn’t the first time it’s occurred to me that there is entirely too much screen usage in this house. Especially by certain junior members of the household. […]
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countdown to christmas
It’s December 21. As always around this date, a wee panic sets in. A little bit of a Groundhog Day feeling – haven’t I been here before? Maybe 365 days ago? Doing and saying exactly the same thing? I am sure it is the same for lots of people – there are just certain things/traditions […]
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revelation
Truth be told, there has been an obscene amount of struggle in our house in recent months. I chalked it up to hormones, mostly in a certain 14 year old girl child. The tiniest little thing can spin into an argument about god knows what. Of course, these problems had nothing to do with ME. […]
foible and folly
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foible and folly 