C&D love the book Pelle’s New Suit.  In the story Pelle discovers that his clothes have gotten too small.  He shears his sheep and then exchanges favors with his family and neighbors to get the wool cleaned, carded, dyed, woven, and finally sewn into a new suit.  The story serves as a nice example of [...]

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I can find the most wonderful non-news on the web page for Houston’s only major newspapaper, the Houston Chronicle.  Mostly this is because Chron.com lists posts from their bloggers as news.  One of their best is kept by Kyrie O’Connor, the newspaper’s deputy managing editor.  I can’t imagine what her job looks like, but she [...]

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Despite all the grousing about 2009, there were a lot of things this past year to appreciate, like:
(Oct. 13)
The way they talk.  Carmen saying Cinder-re-wra and lello (yellow); David building wooden block fences for his hossies.  I wish I could follow them around with a recorder all day.  "You scrubbled in my book!" David [...]

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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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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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Oh, Joyce and Matt and babes,
They had a ‘Ru packed full.
They’d filled it up with camping stuff
Then unpacked it all again.
‘Cause when you’re well, you’re well,
And when you’re gone, you’re gone.
But ’till I see the surgeon Wednesday
I’m neither well nor gone.
~
I warned several of you that we would [...]

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I am already on my fifth movie of the day.  Some of them have been short, of course.
Yesterday I maybe did too much; in between lying around and watching movies I cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed, and tried to catch up on paperwork.  Overnight my fever returned with a vengeance, to 102*F.  This morning I resolved [...]

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