Sheila on May 21st, 2010

As we did last year, the parents met the bus with silly string, water ballooons and super soakers to celebrate the beginning of summer. Today, the weather vacillated between thunderstorms and heavy clouds, and I made the executive decision that we should probably hold off on the water until they went for it. I [...]

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Sheila on January 25th, 2010

Several weeks ago, my dryer started to squeak. This was no once in a while squeak, either. All of a sudden, the sound coming from the dryer made me want to stick knitting needles in my ears to make the noise stop. And since there are plenty of knitting needles around here, [...]

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Sheila on January 10th, 2010

A week or two ago, I was chatting on IM with a friend when Katie sat down next to me. She cuddled for a minute, then started reading the IMs out loud. Sure, there were plenty of words that stumped her, but she was getting far more than I thought she could. [...]

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Sheila on January 9th, 2010

This morning, we were watching Dinosaur Train, and Maggie said she wished we lived in the Cretaceous period and the the Dinosaur Train came through our house and through the fireplace.
Stagg and I started listing off all the problems with this idea, including:
* A train coming through the living room [...]

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