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Party of Six: wedding clothes
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Friday, August 7, 2009. All photos by Nicole Allen. Digression on the topic of being "princessy": Today I was dragging Sebastian through Target, unshowered, hair uncombed, wearing my black clog sandals that I've had forever and this funky knee-lengthish black cotton tank dress with black embroidery, a diagonal zigzaggy hemline and lacing up the bodice. A little girl, probably two years old, walked by, pointed at me with wide eyes and said, "Look! I laughed out loud, and so did her mom. In the end, he cho...
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Party of Six: August 2009
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Friday, August 7, 2009. All photos by Nicole Allen. Digression on the topic of being "princessy": Today I was dragging Sebastian through Target, unshowered, hair uncombed, wearing my black clog sandals that I've had forever and this funky knee-lengthish black cotton tank dress with black embroidery, a diagonal zigzaggy hemline and lacing up the bodice. A little girl, probably two years old, walked by, pointed at me with wide eyes and said, "Look! I laughed out loud, and so did her mom. In the end, he cho...
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Party of Six: May 2009
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Sunday, May 17, 2009. I'm a lucky, lucky girl. I've got such good friends and family. Today looked like this:. Actually, that's a thank-you card that Heather gave me a couple of weeks ago, but doesn't it look so cute with the little prezzy from Cat? Sorry the pic isn't cropped better.). And I didn't get a picture of the ladies, or the champagne,. Cuz I was too busy cutting and gluing and talking, but the end result was this:. Oh, and also the banister:. We're not done yet, but the. Vibe is coming along.
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Party of Six: October 2009
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009. Wedding weekend: the most important part. Today I'm unexpectedly home, the snow is falling, my gorgeous husband (almost 5 months later I still get a little shivery thrill when I get to say "my husband") is out trying to keep the snow from breaking any more limbs off the trees in our backyard, two bundled up kids are jumping on the trampoline and throwing snowballs (! While the other two are cozied up watching Robots. All photos by Nicole Allen. Several people told me that the...
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Party of Six: wedding weekend: beauty
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Saturday, July 25, 2009. All photos by Nicole Allen,. I'm not really much of a girly girl, but I'm not really a tomboy either. My daily routine consists of moisturizer, mascara, and lipgloss. I get my hair cut and colored every six months or so. I sometimes used to get manicures before I had kids, but my oldest is 11, and I haven't had one since he was born. I think it worked. After the scavenger hunt. I'm glad we didn't try for a big reveal, since I actually really loved getting ready with Will and all ...
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Party of Six: January 2009
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009. A couple of weeks ago, my brilliant friend from across the hall had given me a worksheet to use for just such a purpose. Basically, it is a blank piece of paper, landscape format, with space for name and date and the following instruction: In the space below, draw the most accurate world map that you can (include labels). Try it and see how you. Do Don't cheat - just take a blank piece of paper and draw from memory. What comes easily? What do you forget? Links to this post.
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Party of Six: wedding weekend: saturday morning fun
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Thursday, July 23, 2009. Wedding weekend: saturday morning fun. The scavenger hunt dude (I guess I can call him John, since that's his name! Had said that we could just show up and divide into teams that morning, but, um, that didn't really work for my virgo self. Any teacher knows that usually when you let kids choose their own groups, you're asking for disaster. So I had pored over the scavenger hunt RSVP list. Will and I walked around videotaping and hanging out with the teams as they followed clues a...
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Party of Six: July 2010
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Thursday, July 29, 2010. Wellthis second round of Do Nothing, Say Nothing didn't go quite the way I expected. I was just sure that this week was going to be fabulous. The kids were going to rock our world, because we weren't going to do or say anything, and they were going to show us how far they have come in the last 6 months. Ummyeah. Right. That fantasy ended pretty quickly. If they say "no," then I say, "What would you be willing to do? However, I figured that since it's DNSN and I can't order them a...
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Party of Six: do nothing, say nothing recap
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Monday, July 26, 2010. Do nothing, say nothing recap. Well, it's been longer than I thought since the last time I posted. Oops! Life with four kids, three rats, two full-time jobs, a dog, and a snake is a little crazy! I actually meant to blog throughout our Parenting on Track journey, but one day stretched into twelve weeks, which stretched into six months without a single update. The good news (? The first time we did DNSN, it led to some hilarious (in retrospect) and horrifying moments. Keep in mind t...
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Party of Six: hubris
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Thursday, July 29, 2010. Wellthis second round of Do Nothing, Say Nothing didn't go quite the way I expected. I was just sure that this week was going to be fabulous. The kids were going to rock our world, because we weren't going to do or say anything, and they were going to show us how far they have come in the last 6 months. Ummyeah. Right. That fantasy ended pretty quickly. If they say "no," then I say, "What would you be willing to do? However, I figured that since it's DNSN and I can't order them a...
