They have made beds at the top of the stairs on the landing .  I must say Mer followed Mere’s lead about bedtime.  She really wanted to stay up longer.

You guys should be so proud of Mere.  She has honestly been great. It has seemed easier than I expected so far.  I asked if she wanted to call and she said no.  I told her we could get the Webcam ( Read more... )

The major vacation expense that we have around here is and has been for a long time Sissy Trips so that the twins can see each other ever so often. This year, there’s been two times - March camping in Kentucky and May for a long weekend camping thing in Georgia (with a brief before and after in Birmingham). And since air rates and gas prices have ( Read more... )

The trip to Alabama and Georgia for the Mother-Daughter Camping Thing at Camp Juliette Low (which is out in the boones northwest of Atlanta) went very well, much better than I had expected.  Meredith had a glorious time, and the kids played like crazy and enjoyed the campout tremendously (even though it was raining like crazy). The camp people did ( Read more... )

Another set of photos from the trip, around the day and a half the girls spent together around Birmingham (Meredith Ellen’s home town, sort of).   Several are from a McDonalds’ Playland visit…

Here’s Meredith Grace (mine) expressing her opinion of her mom photographing her all the time:


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The twins and Ally (and the moms) stopped on the way to Camp Juliette Low at a art fair in Springville, Alabama called Homestead Hollow - lots of old-time crafts of one sort or another.   The set of photos Susan took of the girls (especially of the twins working with hand looms) is here. An example:


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Yes, I know some of the people involved, obviously, but this is the sort of help that people who were in that Newsweek article I noted yesterday deeply need.

The women of the International Adoption Clinic live the practices they teach their patients. “It’s not just a job to us,” Harrington says, and Chambers completes her sentence: “It’s an ( Read more... )

I can’t really do this justice because I wasn’t there, but I’ll give it a shot.
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Susan has been collecting new pictures at this link; a trip to a combination pumpkin patch / cotton field, horseback riding, and so on for the three girls.  I guess it’s hot in Birmingham…they’re going off ice skating today!

Mere also had some sort of reaction to something on the farm, and aside of lots of Benadryl, the folks down there are keeping ( Read more... )

Various information sources for people who are mapping / road folks:

• Future Interstates and Potential Interstate Corridors Like with the little old lady that the boy scout insisted on taking across the street, whether she wanted to go or not, these are the plans on the front burner. Or even a little further back. The vast majority of these are ( Read more... )

Right after I got back from DC in mid-January, I posted the following:

And there’s something surprising I can’t talk about going on; very complicated, very very big and very important that we’re looking into. Very good news if true. It’s had us tied in knots thinking about it, and it’ll be a little while before we can openly talk about it. And ( Read more... )