The moon is smiling at me right now. 
More about today in this space later.  Right now it is time to get ready to sleep.

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The Christmas story holds more weight and magic than it did before I had C&D. When they swam and squirmed in my womb, I listened to our advent hymns and thought of Mary’s awe in knowing that she, a girl with no pretentions, would soon bear a child that would change the world.  Even textbooks and [...]

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“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
“I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit. “No,” said Pooh humbly, [...]

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The sun is down by 6, and we park across the gate.  We have the playground all to ourselves.
It’s been this way for weeks, with occasional exceptions, like when someone had tennis lessons and a sibling was bored.  For a while some sort of playgroup met on Wednesdays, but now they are gone by the [...]

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just a little. I’m still working on completing a backlog of entries. We’ll call it done eventually.

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When C&D were little, they needed to be held and snuggled all day (and night) long. So we wrapped them up against our chests and wore them as we puttered around the house, took walks, and shopped.

After a while, we eventually had to eat, or do what you eventually have to do after you eat: [...]

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