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Cleaning out the Medicine Cabinet

Posted in Children, Daily Life, Expired drugs and prescriptions, Family, Fever, Health, Kids, Life, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal, Product recalls, Recall, Sons, Time Change, Tweens, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

How many people clean out their medicine cabinet/storage/cardboard box of medicines regularly? 
I do.  Twice a year, usually at the fall and spring time changes.  Keep those snide anti “Martha Stewart” comments to yourselves.  This really is important. 
How many times have you been “sick as a dog” only to find that the flu/cold medicine or worse yet, that the Pepto [...]

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Don’t forget the sunscreen!

Posted in Daily Life, Family, Health, Kids, Life, Parenting, Skin cancer, Sun, Sunscreen, Travel, Travel with children, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Since we planned a road trip for late July, we knew that we had to purchase & pack the sunscreen. 
It was very hot and we managed to get tanned through the windshield. 
Next time – Think tinted windows.  
I had forgotten that Yosemite gets that hot in July and August.  We camped there for two weeks, one [...]

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Clustr Maps II – Make Reservations!

Posted in AAA, Arizona, Children, Daily Life, Family, Geography, Humor, Kids, Life, National Parks, Road Trip, The Red Feather Lodge, Travel, Travel with children, Tweens, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Years ago we traveled like we were hippies from the 60’s….a VW vanagon….wherever the road took us….wherever the wind blew…with no hotel reservations.  We weren’t total rebels…we got maps from AAA. 
Then. 
We had kids.  
It’s hard to be “free as a bird” with one in diapers, one barely potty trained and one who loved to flush toilets. 
But, we were thrilled to [...]

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Home Again – Behind the Orange Curtain

Posted in Clustr Maps, Daily Life, Family, Geography, Kids, Life, Living in California, National Parks, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Home…finally…from WA
Then a Road trip…CA-AZ-UT-NV-CA
3 national parks, one state park and a cave in 6 days
Clustr Maps part II
Geography lessons
Stay tuned
Coming Soon:   Forks – The Great Adventure

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Mom…I have a question

Posted in Children, Daily Life, Family, Harry Potter, Humor, Kids, Life, Motherhood, My Life, Pacific Northwest, Parenting, Snogging, Tweens, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Thankfully I have had lots of energy this summer to keep up with the kids.  
I  have answered many questions, some of which took me by surprise. 
I have learned that when my brother’s children ask a question they want an answer……whether or not I am the person who should answer their question.  Somehow I was able to put off my [...]

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Carnivore Or Herbivore?

Posted in Chicken, Children, Cooking, Daily Life, Family, Food, Kids, Life, Recipes, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What is my brother going to say when he gets home to find that his 8 year old son is growing like a weed and is eating meat all of a sudden? 
He has turned into a carnivore overnight.
Nephew has been big on salads since he was 2.  He was the only toddler I’ve ever seen [...]

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Berry Picking

Posted in Baking, Cooking, Daily Life, Life, Pacific Northwest, Personal, Recipes, tagged , , , , , , on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

 
Early this morning, I thought that I would go out and pick berries for breakfast for me and the kids.  My SIL has blackberry bushes around two sides of the property.  A few summers back the berries were abundant.  Last year, the harvest was very late; we were already back in CA by the time [...]

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Missing socks…

Posted in Babies, Children, Comics, Daily Life, Family, For Better Or Gor Worse, Housekeeping, Kids, Laundry, Life, Missing socks, Motherhood, Pacific Northwest, Parenting, Personal, Sons, Tweens, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 

What is it they say? 
Art imitates Life? 
Or Sunday comics imitate laundry day? 
While my brother and his wife are on their cruise, I am doing laundry for 3 rambunctious “tweens- semi-tween.” 
(My nephew acts close enough to a tween, to be included.)
This should really be no big deal. 
I did the laundry of 4 boys for many years; but [...]

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Some things finally make sense….

Posted in Children, Daily Life, Family, Friends, Humor, Kids, Life, Motherhood, My Life, Pacific Northwest, Parenting, Sons, Travel, Tweens, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

 
Having spent a full week with two ‘tweens’ and a eight year old, I now fully understand why some animals eat their young.
I love her expression – I looked the same way this morning.  “Oh dear God give me patience and I need it now!” 
Can’t you just hear the conversation they might be having…or rather [...]

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6th Grade Promotion

Posted in Balloons, Children, Daily Life, Disney/Pixar, Elementary School Promotion, Family, Friends, Kids, Life, Motherhood, Movies, Parenting, Personal, Sons, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

 

Thanks to E S GIBBS & Time for the photo…precious
Random thoughts and memories of the Big Day….
Three rehearsals before the big event…Tiring
One wardrobe malfunction…who knew his feet were going to out grown the ‘viola recital shoes’ in little over one month?  $15.00
CA’s “June gloom” burning off just as he receives his certificate.
Taking photos at the [...]

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