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We had a family beach day today after spending much of yesterday morning doing “family field day” – cleaning! We were wondering how Ben would do in the kayak since he’s such a high-energy guy. He was great between my legs on our little journey around the coves, then Sam and I jumped out to [...]

I’ve been driving for 20 years now – entirely without incident – and to celebrate (I guess) I managed to bump into and dent our bumper – on mom’s car! No damage whatsoever to her car, but our bumper had a good sized dent. It’s plastic, so I thought it would pop out, but the [...]

Sam called to me thusly as I tucked him in – antares is a star in the eastern sky which is a supernova about to happen. Sometime in the next 100,000 years. But it could be any day. You never know. After the boys get jammies on we go to check on the stars, and [...]

Here’s Sam cleaning up with baby powder after a visit to the beach this morning for a little snorkeling. This afternoon I finally watched one of his favorite DVDs with him – “Searching for Superstars” from the Starry Night software program set (astronomy program). It describes supernovas, black holes, binary stars, pulsars…very interesting and very [...]

Thankfully, Sam’s eye is fine today. He woke up last night pretty uncomfortable but it seems Tylenol did the trick. I am grateful for a good outcome. We said a prayer of thanksgiving this morning as we set off on a run. Sam said “Oh, and mom also say ‘Don’t let sand or dirt get [...]