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Wow.  It sure is quiet.  Just me and the baby, since these two crazies started school today.

I can actually hear the hum of the air conditioner.
Weird.

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Today was the first time in quite a while that we’ve attempted mass as a family.  All summer, Dan and I have chosen to attend separate masses, in an attempt to keep our sanity.  Jack, of course always goes with one of us, and Maria does most of the time.  The little boys and the [...]

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God help their teachers.

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So.  Last week, my sister gathered up her courage, her kids and her husband and came for a visit.  I hadn’t seen her since my brother’s wedding over a year ago.  Just she and her daughter were able to come then.  I think before that it was a few years earlier in California for 48 [...]

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While my sister was here (more on that later, I promise!) the kids worked on several crafts together.  Lucie had a few favorites that she couldn’t wait to share with her cousins.  One of these crafts was RoseArt Color Blanks.  These are strangely shaped creatures made of a plastic material that you can color and [...]

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Well, in case you didn’t know it, we just returned from a trip to Salt Lake City.  Yes, we took the WHOLE family.  Yes, we DROVE.
10 Days.  3,703 miles.

We survived.  ALL of us.  And, we had fun!!!  Seriously.  I only considered homicide once.  In the hotel in North Platte, NE.  It was our first night [...]

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This morning:
Luke:  Thanks for buying us Poptarts, Mom!
Me:  Don’t thank me, thank Jack.  It was his idea.
Luke:  Thanks, Jack!
Jack:  Give me a buck, then.
Luke:  I don’t have a buck.
Jack:  Give me a quarter, then.
Luke:  I can give you a bucktooth!

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Today was a busy one for us.  First, there was the “company family picnic”.
Andrew was too pooped from rolling over for the first time to participate much:

But, Jack held a snake (and now wants one, to which Dan says, “NO WAY!”):

And there was, of course, face painting (because what else is there at a company [...]

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Apropos of nothing, Maria announced in the car today:  They say, “A rolling stone gathers moss.”
Me:  Umm, no.  It’s ‘A rolling stone gathers NO moss.’
Maria:  Are you sure?
I answered her that, yes, I was sure and I explained the reason why a rolling stone gathers no moss.
Me:  Moss grows in shady places, on things that [...]

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So, on Friday I wanted to shoot myself after making the huge mistake of going to Walmart with the kids.  I needed 4 things, 3 of which they didn’t have.  Add to that the cart tipping disaster before we could get through the register lane and I was ready to belly up to the bar.  [...]

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