Lux et umbra vicissum…

“Babes in Toyland” was fine. Not the best show we’ve ever seen, but not the worst. (I think the worst was a student film we both had parts in.) Anyway, it was a fun outing. Joel wants to send me to Croatia. What’s up with that? 😉 More on that another time… Branwen awakes…

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Actually, I guess it’s not as much grandparentland as it was last weekend because my dad won’t be here, but the girls will have my mother and sister to play with. 🙂 Joel and I got tickets to see “Babes In Toyland” tonight at the Patriot Center. It was one of those donate-to-the-firefighters-get-some-tickets things, and […]

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Joel’s office is in the process of packing to move. They aren’t moving far, so I guess it’s not as much stress as it might have been. When there were first rumors about the move, the rumors mentioned places from Maryland (no, please no!) to Gainesville (oh, please yes!), but they ended up finding a […]

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While I was in nursery yesterday evening, Wendy called me on my cell phone… something she doesn’t generally do unless it’s about something important. I answered and she said, “Cindy’s in labor, they induced her and it’s not going well.” Our friend Cindy was due at the end of last week. The practice she attends […]

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So much has been happening over the past week that I’m going to just have to give an overview instead of going into details. Here goes… Last Thursday night was spent packing so I could take the girls to Maryland Friday. Friday morning I attended MOPS, then I fed the girls lunch at the church […]

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This one comes because of a frustrating experience with my credit union. Over all, I’ve liked them very much. They have good rates and have had pretty good service. There’ve been a couple of moments of mild idiocy on their part (letting a check go through for more than the amount I wrote on it, […]

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I finally got brave enough to give Branwen her first haircut. The child never stops moving, so even though her hair was getting into her eyes all the time (it’s not thick, but parts of it were getting longish), I was scared to death to cut the stuff. As I sat feeding her lunch and […]

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A little less than a month ago, I was in the pediatrician’s office for Branwen’s one year appointment and he was trying to talk me into getting flu shots for the girls. “I don’t have them yet,” he said, “but I should have them by the time you bring Alexis in for her three year […]

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This will be the seventh month that Joel and I will be trying for our third child. It took us a year to conceive Alexis and six months to conceive Branwen, so this isn’t unusual for us, even if it is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. (Actually, our first baby was conceived in the […]

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Can’t go into it too much or I won’t get to bed at a decent time… again. We missed Alexis’ doctor’s appointment this morning because I forgot that Branwen would need a breathing treatment before we left home and had to do it last minute. I called them on my way and they said, very […]

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