I have been making lots of OM-NOM food. It's been awesome having vegetables and TIME.

( Food photos and house tidying! )

Today was delightfully productive. Husband noted that the utensil drawer was icky, so I sorted through it, culled a number of things, had Ananda scrub it, and re-loaded it as a more useable system with less crap piled in. Hooray!


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Photo post!

Ben has now Joined The Fold, officially wearing glasses like the other three of us. We went to EyeBuyDirect and got $8 glasses, so we got him two pair: one like daddy, and the ones he chose. HE chose the dweeby glasses and LOVES them. And although he insisted he "didn't need glasses," when he put them on, he was like, "Everything's ( Read more... )

I am the proud Mama of two children with black belts in Tae Kwon Do. Testing photos here.


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There were a few more photos from our end-of-summer trip, including the family with fish they caught and Elf with a tiny toad ( Read more... )

Marina Zidek, born 16 July 1911 Ukraine, died 5 March 2011 Illinois


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I've wanted GOOD family photos for, oh, like, NINE YEARS NOW.

And so I finally caved and decided we were going a photographer. We did the simple thing and went just to The Picture People rather than something really elaborate. I am THRILLED. I have uploaded the many awesome-for-different-reasons photos here but my favorite is this one:


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We now have five cats.

One is Basement!Cat (Torlei), for whom we're going to have to find a new home before it gets really cold, since she never comes upstairs and it's COLD down there. There is a WAR on between her and the cats in the icon. Really between her and Gordon (Lord Gordon, because he's el gordo, name courtesy of b1uemorpho because he's both ( Read more... )

My kids are awfully cute.

( Photos of my kids )

I'm contemplating text for the last three in the first row. Current running idea for the one with Elf and her glasses down on her nose is, "This time I'll use Very Small Words." The other two--me frowning and Ben smiling as he holds the gate ring--I have no idea.


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