Lux et umbra vicissum…

She was in a mood.  She was tired and cranky, and she wasn’t too sure she wanted to go at all.  But it was the Easter Egg Hunt for Awana, and if she didn’t go she’d miss out on finding eggs with toys and candy in them, so she went and took her grumpy attitude […]

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Right, so I should probably explain the dog’s name since most people don’t recognize it. 🙂 Cafall was King Arthur’s dog in the Arthurian legends. It has a bit of a Welsh flair to it, so it’s pronounced more like “kuh-VAHL”. Ok, so Arthur’s dog was a bit… well… bigger. And… er… wolfier? But, darn […]

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1. Have a serious talk with the puppy about how disgusting it is to sleep in your own poop. (Do not let the 1 or 2 year olds chime in.) 2. Place the puppy in the crate with a couple of washable toys and fleece rug thing to lay on. 3. Remove puppy from crate; […]

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Today, our lives will change forever.  Today, life as we know it will be done and a new way of life will have begun.  Today, our priorities will be changed, our hearts’ sources will be tapped, and our hands will be full. Today, we get our puppy.

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You know, sometimes I think that she’s very aptly named. Our “white raven” is certainly intelligent and good at problem solving, her relationships with others are often quarrelsome yet she has a strong loyalty to her family, she has the beautiful flaxen hair of Aphrodite, and she maintains a strong individuality refusing to be drawn […]

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Two year olds tend to fit the things they hear into what they understand. For example, when our two year old watches Dora and hears a Spanish word, instead of learning it as a Spanish word it becomes whatever the closet English word is to it. She learned an entire Dora song that way: “La […]

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My kids are excellent button pushers.  They love pushing the buttons for elevators, though so far we’ve avoided having them push all of them while we’re in there, thankfully.  The love pushing buttons on the microwave to the extent that they actually fight over whose turn it is to push “start”. 😛  And of course, […]

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My two year old has apparently learned the fine art of lulling mommy into a false sense of security. The darling child will go for several days without getting into any real trouble. She’ll color only on the coloring books and papers available for such things, she’ll nicely look at books that are available, and […]

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I thank the Lord for Haymarket Pediatrics! I got Eli in there yesterday afternoon. His lungs were sounding clear by then, so his coughing had gotten the worst of the stuff out of them. When the doctor looked in his ear, she said she couldn’t see in very well because wax was blocking the canal. […]

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