The winter storm that is now heading toward the East Coast blew through us yesterday. It was definitely very, very WINDY and full of snow. So, it was the perfect day to take a trolley to the North Pole to see Santa. D was very excited about this until she actually saw Santa and then she was very scared. Eventually she agreed to go up to Santa ( Read more... )

I want to go to Disney World next year, but we can't because bumblepudding doesn't have time off from school. Yes, he is going back to school to get an Associate's Degree ( Read more... )

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bumblepudding and I went out to Fogo de Chao on Sunday to celebrate our anniversary. It is a Brazillian steakhouse. It is very, very delicious. It is very expensive. Today, we received a postcard in the mail from a rival Brazillian steakhouse, Texas de Brazil, to eat at their place for about half the cost. Oh, the irony ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sick and tired of campaign news and complaining, eventhough I do a good deal of it myself. So this entry is completely devoted to family ( Read more... )

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I can't remember if I wrote about tie-dying t-shirts over Labor Day weekend, but I have finally uploaded pictures of our results to Flickr.


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Our Fourth of July weekend started off with a bang on the third when Danaan threw herself over the back of a chair and smashed her face, resulting in blood, cuts, and a moved tooth.  Oh, and she found broken glass and cut her hands, because she's good at this sort of thing.  After an emergency phone call to our Philadelphia dentist (after hours ( Read more... )

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Freecycle is a pain in the butt because people don't come and pick up stuff when they say the will. After waiting around all Sunday morning for someone to come pick up a bookcase and a coffee table and not showing up, we went out to the Morris Arboretum to see this year's version of the Garden Railway. Honestly, not much changes in a year.


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