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Recently, a new Super Target opened up near my house.  It’s just 2.8 miles away, door-to-door. We’ve been looking for a good place to shop for the groceries we can’t get at Costco.  The regular grocery stores here are VERY expensive and when you’re feeding six, well, you need a Super Wal-Mart or a Super [...]

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It’s been a crazy week with the kids back in school after a looooonnnnggggg Spring Break.  So, it’s taken me a few days to get to posting about Jack’s actual birthday… I was up at the crack of dawn, anticipating Jack’s birthday too giddy to sleep because the kids were going back to school. I [...]

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Jack turns 7 tomorrow.  I can’t belive it.  I remember this night 7 years ago like it happened yesterday.  But, I won’t bore you with the details.  As everyone with kids knows, it sure goes fast.  Super, super fast. Jack, if you didn’t know it already, is a train freak.  Our move to the Chicagoland [...]

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After dinner this evening, Dan had a wild hair and told the family that we were heading over to the park across the street where he and I would play some tennis.  The kids would all have the pleasure of shagging balls. It was a gorgeous evening – the first real one of the season [...]

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As I lay in bed this morning dozing off and on with various juvenile faces fading in and out of view, I thought that one of the nice things about spring break – besides not fixing lunches – is not having to get out of bed at the crack of dawn.  And then an elbow [...]

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The other day, Dan cleaned the kitchen floor Dan-style.  Which means on his hands and knees.  (I know – you are SO jealous.)  He’d already had the bucket out because he cleaned the bathroom floor after an unfortunate accident on Luke’s part.  Luke was sick, running a high fever, drinking a TON and just didn’t [...]

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Well, it looks as though our Easter luck has continuted into this year.  It started a few years ago with this* and we really haven’t had the best of Easters since. Yesterday morning, Luke woke up still feverish and so had to miss the Easter egg hunt in the park.  Which means, darn it, I [...]

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I have to run to the store for whole pecans, ’cause who keeps whole pecans around the house?  Well, maybe my mother-in-law.  She’s ALWAYS prepared when it comes to cooking or baking! Anyway, go out and grab some too, so you can make Easter Cookies tomorrow with your kids.  Here’s my post from last year [...]

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“I wish they were my real sisters,” Maria told me the other day. So sad…

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Katey, Jeremy, Claire, Lily and Owen are currently enroute back to their home in Washington, D.C.  And we are full of sadness. It will very well be quite some time before we see our good friends again. How nice having them here!  Life with young children is so chaotic… it’s therapy when you can share [...]

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