Lux et umbra vicissum…

Our flex money is gone by now, so I’ve been putting off going to the chiropractor. I had been going about once a week to keep my spine in place; it goes out a lot as I trip over toys and heave children hither, thither, and yon. Joel was going with me since his lower […]

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Wow, I’m tired. We stayed up too late last night listening to election reports on WTOP even though we knew very well the silly thing wouldn’t be over by morning. 😛 Even given the late night, I was doing ok until the girls’ doctor’s appointment. When we went in a couple of days ago, the […]

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Tell my girls that. I was glad I brought the tissues. 😛 So I headed for the polls just before 10:30 this morning. Perfect time, right? I mean, the people voting before work would be gone, lunch crowd wouldn’t be there yet, not nap time… sounds great. Should go smoothly, right? Parking was as bad […]

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This Croatia thing has got me all in a tizzy. On Sunday, a rather last minute very short term mission trip was announced. Bob Hitching, a missionary supported by our church who works with the Roma Gypsies, could use help distributing Operation Christmas Child boxes in Croatia. The trip will be for one week, from […]

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“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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