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Off-Piste: Where's that playground
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Friday, July 27, 2012. We spent the better portion of this past week in Lancaster, PA visiting Muz (my grandmother) and my aunts Barbara and Penney. The kids had a great time exploring Muz's house, enjoying the hotel, and seeing new scenery from their carseats, but it was a deviation from our normal schedule of spending many hours per day at playgrounds around house. I'm just trying to figure out how to get to the playground.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Off-Piste: October 2011
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Sunday, October 30, 2011. The Onion, always honest in news reporting if not always accurate, had this headline recently: Study Finds Every Style Of Parenting Produces Disturbed, Miserable Adults. The last line is my favorite: "The study did find, however, that adults often achieve temporary happiness when they have children of their own to perpetuate the cycle of human misery.". Friday, October 28, 2011. Thursday, October 27, 2011. Thursday, October 13, 2011.
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Off-Piste: December 2011
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Tuesday, December 27, 2011. Two weeks with two kids. Two weeks ago at this exact moment I was going to bed and hoping that I would not still be pregnant at breakfast. I wasn't. And for the past two weeks we have been figuring out what life with two little boys looks like. We have been doing so well, in fact, that we may have gotten a little over-confident: today we went to IKEA, which everyone knows is the K2 of retail. Don't we all want to do that right now?
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Off-Piste: September 2011
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Eric and I attended our first Tampa sporting event on Saturday night: a Tampa Bay Rays game at their indoor. Stadium in St Petersburg. Who ever heard of an indoor baseball stadium? More country-ness: Jeff Foxworthy on video opened up the game with a bit on "You might be a Rays fan if." which reminded me that there are more people that you think who are able to turn one not very clever idea into a lifelong career as a performer. And p...
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Off-Piste: A few recent good ones
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Sunday, August 5, 2012. A few recent good ones. Here are a few of my favorite recent Emerson-isms. We are at the age where everything we say comes right back to us. For example, Emerson is now often heard saying: "Does that sound like fun to you? I don't know if I've been speaking in British lately but Emerson has started inserting "rather" in a very proper way. Would you like some yogurt Emerson? Mom Put your hand on my head and push down really hard. And puts ...
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Off-Piste: May 2012
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Sunday, May 27, 2012. I learned this morning that my dear friend Johnny Stef. I missed my chance to say it in person, but here is what I would have said:. You will be greatly missed. Monday, May 14, 2012. It only took us six years to find out. On Saturday night Eric and I went out on a date. And because we are parents in our early 30s living in Florida, obviously that means just one thing: we went mini-golfing. Perhaps we have a new family tradition. The woman s...
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Off-Piste: February 2012
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Monday, February 13, 2012. Eric pointed out that my previous wild turkeys were actually Muscovy ducks. Oops. Then as I was driving last Thursday I came across a grazing flock of actual wild turkeys and they do look a lot more like turkeys than those ducks did. Wednesday, February 8, 2012. The strawberries above, minus a few that got eaten along the way, turned into this much jam (plus another jar we gave away before I took this picture):. Friday, February 3, 2012.
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Off-Piste: August 2012
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Let me set the scene:. Most people probably know this but it turns out Buccaneers are Pirates! Not those things the girl has to get for her date to the Homecoming dance.) The free Bucs schedule calendars that they handed out said Cannons Will Fire and it was true - they did. Eric was so startled he spilled some of his beer on his shoe. I went through a lot of my beer forcing down the Sloppy Garfield. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. This sam...
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Off-Piste: January 2012
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Lies I need to hear. I was pushing Emerson on the swings at the park today while juggling Ethan and generally looking exhausted and disheveled. A mom swinging with her daughter started chatting with me and asked how old Ethan was and then how far apart the two kids are. Her kids are the same age apart but are older now - her younger one looked about four. People tell you it gets easier but they're lying," she informed me. Contrary to w...
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Off-Piste: Sunset over our pond
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Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Sunset over our pond. While we were out celebrating my birthday our babysitter captured this sunset over our pond. This is the view from our pool and hot tub. This is definitely on the list of Florida goodness. This same babysitter, who I like a lot, told me today: "I always thought I wanted to have children close together like this but taking care of these two at these ages is really challenging! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
