I’m sitting in Matt’s new Honda Fit.  We bought the Fit when we realized he had been driving our 2001 Saturn SL without gear oil for, oh, who knows how long?  Ever since the babies came (and the rest of the chaos that happened after) checking the Saturn’s gear oil level had fallen low, low, [...]

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David’s latest haircut, done by Joyce’s Kitchen-Table Salon.  The motto of Joyce’s KTS is “It’ll grow back” (Other motto considerations included “I can fix this, I think”, “I can always even this out with the clippers later”, as well as “Oops”.) 

This isn’t the haircut I’d intended to give David.  He and I had [...]

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We chose to spend Christmas Day at home this year like we have since 2004, when I was too hugely pregnant to travel safely and comfortably.  Once the babies were born it wasn’t any easier; they hated the car and would cry until we scooped them out at our destination.  Post-AVM, now I’m the one [...]

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I don’t really know exactly how this all started, I just know what we’re in the middle of it now and there’s no going back.
I do remember had been looking for a dance class for C&D for a while.  The search became urgent after we caught a free performance by Houston Ballet II, the pre-professional [...]

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Like any good artist, David sometimes makes several sketches of a concept to get it just right.  Orange was used to make sure that the nose is a carrot.

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The snow has long since melted; the sun shines on a cold so sharp it hurts.  But on the front page of the local newspaper . . .
. . . is a story . . .
about two kids and a snowman.

(I also sighted C&D’s picture in the Chronicle’s online “Breaking News” gallery.)

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