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That headline is a bit misleading, but I had to write something to lure you guys in, no? We haven’t had any action of  the big exciting event variety (except for Kiri, who just learned to jump and is over-the-moon excited about that!) but we’ve had lots of little things going on, so it’s time [...]

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Snow Day

We had our first snow day of the year last week. The forecast the night before promised doom and gloom, and despite the arrival of only an inch or snow overnight, the forecasters kept on warning of heavy snow followed by ice. At 5:45 the school called to say school was canceled. I let Liam [...]

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Hey, what’s this page??? Oh yeah, it’s my blog….huh. I haven’t posted because…well, I was busy catching up on all the things that I put on the back burner last month, and here I am, resurfacing for a break. It’s been everyday life for the most part around the Menagerie House; we had a relaxing [...]

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…set to Pachelbel’s Canon in D… As seen at Karen’s place.

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Three Is Hard

One day earlier this summer Liam and I were up the street at the farm buying some veggies for dinner. While we were there we met another neighborhood mom (I’ll call her Maggie) who was there with her twin boys, age 2, and her four-month old baby. We saw them there a couple more times, [...]

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Here are the pictures I promised the other day… Kevin and Liam spent a morning at the Chicago Children’s Museum. It seems Liam’s new best friend, Big Bird, came along for the ride. Actually, Big Bird was very helpful this trip – he pecked elevator buttons right and left, and also “ate” his way down [...]

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When I left for Chicago, I was dealing with a bit of a funk. Things are looking up now. In the last two days I’ve heard talks ranging from a fairly hard-core breastfeeding pharmacology session by Thomas Hale (I loved this talk being a medicinal chemist and all) to a discussion of natural childbirth by [...]

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