Tomorrow we move to the new house, newly painted and cleaned by my parents, and then babyproofed and carpeted my Matt (the floors are mostly quarry tile, painted concrete, and pine). And I got to play general contractor while my mom took a turn at baby-wrangling. I’m going to miss our little house, the house [...]

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Packing, Big Thicket annual meeting tomorrow (Cong. Brady showing up, and lots of other people, besides), C&D have both battled colds and the resultant sleepless nights, I strained my back, and this week visited every store in the Galleria area to find the Perfect Shirt to wear with my Perfect suit. Oh, and, right, I [...]

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is not the same. Today, right before bed, David opened the hall closet and pulled out an old tube of Christmas wrapping paper. He unrolled it and the house quickly filled with the loud crinkle of paper while I cleaned up the last remnants of dinner. Within a few minutes I found C&D walking over [...]

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  I wonder how it works? [Not especially well. It adds lots of extraneous code and I can't get the ftp image uploader to work, grr.] (The above picture is David painting last week, his first time to use a brush and not fingers or popsicle sticks.  Both C&D prefer the brush to any other [...]

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I’m supposed to be busy. I’m supposed to be listing the rest of my things on eBay, and checking on my Craigslist responses for the things I have posted there to sell. But I had to post here, first. Yesterday someone came to pick up our deep freeze. You don’t need a deep freeze when [...]

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I really like how now the American public can rely on the good ol’ television set to teach their children everything they need to know. Now, in addition to the squeaky CTW franchises and the sugar-coated cartoons on Nickelodeon, we have a channel specifically geared to babies called BabyFirstTV. With 24/7 programming that changes every [...]

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Fiona, this one’s for you: Tonight, as Carmen snuggled up next to me and tried to fall asleep, she told herself one of her favorite stories. It’s called I Hear; it’s a board book and not much of a story book, but she likes it very much anyway. The night went like this:Snuggle, roll, flip, [...]

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