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Two Sams plus two inches

Watching the day float away. We decided to head out on a hike today after school – Tues is for Trails. So we went ahead with an adventure even though I was totally spent. It was a busy day getting Sam to school, cleaning up the house, doing some paperwork, entertaining Ben who misses Sam, [...]

“Don’t Steal My Bicycle” by the Almond Brothers

Look at this guy! He is so grown up! Here we go biking/running 1 mile to school So this is the first full week of school and my policy is not to wake sleeping boys. So it got interesting…at 7:16 Sam rolled out of bed. I’d already been in to change Ben who had gotten [...]

beach walk with my buddies

We went on a beach hike today at one of our favorite places. I love the lava shelves here, the tide pools and the olivine sand – it’s green because it contains this mineral from the crater in the picture to the left (Ulupa’u). I did a little finger painting – mixed media madness really. [...]

The Poi Boys

Look at Dave soaring! He is quite a diver. The boys were very impressed today at the “cool”! Even little Ben jumped off the diving board today while Big Sam bagged some high dive jumps. We enjoyed a trip to the pool this afternoon before hitting Target for a backpack for Sam. My Salvation Army [...]

First days of school

It’s been an exciting and very full week around here with Dave back at work, me continuing to work against deadline pressure on a project that was slated to be done by now (plus other work piling in) and Sam starting school, which was the real focus of everyone’s attention. They start out gradually with [...]