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  • It’s About Time!

    I’m getting caught up (again), picture style! Who wants to read anyway?

  • Improvising

    I’m typing the first blog post on my new laptop, out on the deck in this lovely evening, while Ronnie and Skyler pick mulberries. My lack of blogging has not been a lack of words or photos, but more of a logistical issue that when I’m blogging, I’m stuck at the desktop computer in our…

  • Easter

  • These Days

    While I don’t feel like we’re terribly busy with anything big and out of the ordinary these days, I still haven’t had the time to sit down and write much. Some of it is lack of inspiration – it just doesn’t seem there’s much new to report, and I don’t feel really strongly about anything…

  • Weekend Pleasantries

  • What a Difference 2 Years Makes

    It’s hard to believe two years ago today, we spent that fearful day at the hospital and found out about Skyler’s heart condition. It seems so much longer ago, especially when I watch her run around crazy every evening like a chicken on speed. There are times I pick her up and hold her during…

  • Sagittarius

    I don’t do horoscopes. I just don’t believe in that kind of stuff. However every now and then I run across my scope for the day, and it’s interesting to read what generic piece of advice they come up with. Today was this: Your mind can’t escape your financial situation — even if it’s never…

  • By the Way

    Not much to report lately. We are enjoying our new ride, though a dashboard light has already come on to “Service Stabilitrak” – whatever that is. Like I really want to take it in for service already! Hopefully it’s nothing, and if it is, thank goodness we purchased the extended warranty! In other news, Skyler…

  • Undecided

    I went to a baby shower this weekend where four of my six closest friends in attendance were pregnant. With their second or third child. I think we counted that between us, there would be fifteen children once these current pregnancies are wrapped up. Holy crap that is scary, and who wants to be at…

  • “Lemme do it!!!”

    That is the most commonly heard phrase in our home these days, spoken by Miss Independent herself. Every possible regular task around the house now MUST be done by Skyler: Letting Bruno in and outside, feeding Bruno, putting her stocking cap on to go out in the cold, unbuttoning her coat, putting socks on, changing…