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I’m pasting an email I just sent to a friend here…no energy to even retype or revisit the events of the day. Unbelievable… At the hike, wanted to greet visitors from Russia with a nice “dobre utra!” (“good morning!” – can’t believe I remembered that from my travels many years ago) so I belted it out. They [...]

how to say honey in Japanese (sounds like “mee-tsu”) Here are Holly and Sam back at the Japanese. Holly says she didn’t forget all her Japanese over the summer and is back in school picking up some new sounds and words. Today we focused on the m sounds since earlier today Sam had learned about [...]

Mariner’s Ridge – Sam 4 1/2 and Ben almost 15 months (asleep!) Sam at 3 yrs old and Ben 6 months gestation (probably sleeping!) I have always loved this picture of me hiking with Sam (and Ben in belly). I thought to ask April to grab a similar picture of the three of us today. [...]

Bayfest – fun at the carnival! The boys had a fabulous time at the carnival tonight – and I felt their excitement, too. It was so fun to watch them take it all in! We hit the ferris wheel, Sam did a roller coaster on his own (Ben was too small to do it), then [...]

So yesterday morning I awoke to TWO mice in ONE glue trap right where I thought the buggers were coming out. Bonzai! BUT – they were VERY vigorous. One of them more than the other. It was staring me down. I tried to gather the courage to get it into a grocery bag and out [...]