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DameCatoe: This year

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Monday, July 6. When you get a three-day weekend for the 4th of July, you sort of count on sunshine and blue skies. It was a bummer to wake up to rain each day. Cash had asked when we could go to the movies again, so on Friday I sent Kris with the big three to see Inside Out. They had a nice time (and I had a nice time finishing a book on the sun porch while Ani napped) but they were bummed that I couldn’t be there, too. 8221;) and sometimes on...

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DameCatoe: March 2015

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Monday, March 30. Making a week of it. Cash and Zoe are doing reasonably well with Ben lording it over them for SEVEN DAYS that he is "the birthday boy.". Since Ben was off Having Solo Fun with his grands on Friday, we caved and went to Chick-Fil-A when Cash and Zoe requested it. (They get SO INSANE when we take them there that I can't digest my food, so we'd told them "no more."). Thursday, March 26. I love what's happening in this photo.

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DameCatoe: The Mandarin connection

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Thursday, April 17. I have to concede that I have no Beijing Mojo. If you guys recall, a couple summers ago, I did a lot of poking around. On Chinese search engines. I found oodles of images of Zoe. This week, I have been looking for the Beijing orphanage. I can find nothing, except the entrance. 8220;Man, I was really ruined by finding Zoe in the first page of returns,” I thought to myself. Everything in her file was a JPG, so I didn’t h...

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DameCatoe: A culling

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Friday, May 29. Ani plays so well now! At a very-nearly-age-appropriate level. I went around the house collecting all the more babyish toys we’d acquired for her to bag them up. I don’t want to hold her back. (And yo, like there’s ever a toy shortage at our house.). Kris wanted the big kids to get in on the action. A culling. (“What’s a culling? 8221; they asked.). We made bags of trash and broken toys. We made bags of things to give away.

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DameCatoe: April 2015

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Friday, April 24. Let's talk hair (yes, again). It's been three weeks since Kris did my hair. Every three weeks was how often we went to the salon to touch up my roots — because as my mostly silver hair grew in when the rest of the hair was dyed dark brown, you get a skunk stripe, but not in a cool Rogue. Way So this is the 1st weekend where we don't have to hit the Moxie to do my color. BUT While I'm like "eww, this blonde ponytail? I had no i...

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DameCatoe: Hello, July

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Monday, July 7. For Zoe's first 4th of July, we took a family photo on the deck. The kids had come home with American flags from the daycare, and Zoe had the CUTEST red, white and blue dress (a gift from Kris' client Gina Wilson). It was her first 4th as an American citizen, so photo op! And then it became a tradition. I had some Fence Post! I talked to many of my dearest friends FACE-TO-FACE. Win. Ani had a better time once the sun began to se...

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DameCatoe: On the house

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Tuesday, June 30. Friday night, Dad and Patsy were keeping the big kids overnight and we planned to see a movie before we came to get Ani. When it’s a Thrift Store Date, we hit Asahi. When it’s Taco Night, we meet people at the Mayan restaurant. What comes pre-movies? 8220;I have a gift card to the Fish Market,” I told Kris. (I’d done some graphic design for them awhile back.). A photo posted by Laura Catoe (@damecatoe) on. Wordpress by AZ Money.

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DameCatoe: Albinism

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Photo by Sylvia Sargènius. If you want to learn more about albinism, you could always visit NOAH. 8212; the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation. (And if you have adopted a child from China with albinism, check out the Yahoo Group BaiChina. While we waited to adopt our oldest daughter, I made two Flickr galleries of people around the world with albinism:. Photo gallery on Flickr. Albinism across cultures II. 1 In a normal-sig...

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DameCatoe: July 2015

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Monday, July 27. That's the way that Ani pronounces "hot." My cup of coffee? Stuff on the stove? Big kids have their last week of swimming lessons. We found out who their teachers are for the upcoming year. In the other corner: hey, somewhere for the kids to host people and be out of our hair! Because that time will come, no? Friday, July 10. Pressure’s on, kid. I can’t just add the kids’ ages since I didn’t have Zoe until she...Though I wasn&#...

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DameCatoe: Pew pew

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Graphic designer, storyteller, mommy blogger and total nerd. Thursday, June 18. Have I like, not only forgotten to. Blog, but how. Like, I mean to update the portfolio blog and I haven't shared the Art of Beer logo yet, but I am also "meh, I'll get around to it." But I also mean to update this one with kid stories I don't want to forget, and yet I feel like I have nothing to say? But you can tell by the inflection and when she says it that that is what "pew-pew" means. Then there was VBS:.