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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:57 PM

Kids clothing and my tinkerbell cup

Some days you feel like if you had a camera or a tape measure you could actually watch your children grow. In the last 10 days both of my children have filled out to the point where pants that fit are too tight. On top of that they both probably grew
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:43 PM

Well it really is Autumn

There is a blanket of dead leaves over my grass. There seem to be dead dry leaves everywhere around my house. It took quite some time to clean them out of the carport today. There are lots and lots of spiders and their little egg sacs everywhere too.
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Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:02 PM

August weekend...

I really should have updated more just was not sure which of the many things to update. We went to an Aquasox game in Everett the beginning of the month. We even saw the Goodyear Blimp and I took a picture. Otherwise we are just ramping up for school
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 5:43 PM

All is almost right with the world

I am writing this blog post on my regular desktop computer. I have a good start to things being back in their places. To be sure things are upgraded and I still have many more programs and things to get set up. For some odd reason my calendar and contacts
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:13 AM

yeah no new blog post for nearly a month

I know its been a while. 1st off my main computer is still not quite working. It is rebuilt and installed and ready to receive my profile. However that is where we seem to be bogged down. It is not liking transferring my profile. So now we need to figure
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Friday, May 18, 2007 1:20 PM

Wonderful day!

Today is just a good day. I did well going to yard sales this morning, the weather is beautiful. I picked up yet more clothing for myself, a gorgeous heavy glass cake plate cover and a rolling duffel bag to replace the giant suitcase we have that almost
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:50 PM

Files, update, lilacs and a walk.

Yes my shoes are still staying tied! This past week was interesting as it has involved far more paperwork than usual. I have been working steadily on the files, made sure Taxes got done, organizing my desk, and made sure everything got out for clean up.
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:18 PM

Good and yucky

I am currently sick with a nasty cough and cold. Luckily Alaric got over it mostly and also got over his double ear infections. Amazing how that curtails your activities to have a sick child. The week before Spring Break, which started Monday the 9th,
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Friday, April 06, 2007 11:07 PM

Just gorgeous

Yesterday and today were just beautiful. Today it got over 70 degrees outside according the thermometer in the shade on my front porch. My garden is looking awesome and I am pleased with my progress. I have slowly been working on getting my Garden ready
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:14 PM

Tuesday Evening

This is a big Hello to Andrew who is currently on the road. Though we just talked to him on the phone a bit ago. We are slowly watching Battle Star Galactica season 3. We finally finished all of season 2 in the last few months. This is really an awesome
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 6:56 PM

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Today it was drizzly and rainy and grey! However everything was green. Devin is home again until the end of month when he goes off to more conferences. The last few days have been spent getting my chores done. Like paying bills, laundry, kids had half-days,
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:41 AM

Updates and fashion

Yeah! Alaric is feeling better so went back to school yesterday! It is so nice to see him better since he was pretty sick. Just Saturday morning all of the sudden he seemed to breathe easier and everything. He still tires easily but not as bad as he was.
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Friday, March 02, 2007 9:01 AM

Household redecorating and snow days

Our new guest room is in place. Our friend Nick finally got all moved out so I worked on the front room. I borrowed Treanna's trundle bed, found an old off white nightstand, and then put a banquet table and a chair in there. Once everything got in
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Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:26 PM

Better but still icky

Over all I am feeling better. Still sick but now it feels mostly like a cold. The kids are mostly better as well just needing extra sleep. I slept most of Thursday and that seemed to help as well. I did some kitchen stuff this weekend but it was a slow
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:13 PM

The dreaded icks

Today was a day I have long been dreading. You know the one where you wake up tired with a headache and head off to wake up the children. Of course it took you a good 15-20 minutes to be able to drag yourself out of bed. You think "What is wrong
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Monday, February 05, 2007 7:59 PM

Productive Monday

Today was a rather productive day. I finished all the laundry and there was a lot! I also managed to keep the kitchen mostly clean. I did a few other chores. The big icky one I did was clean the trap for the upstairs bathroom sink. Not sure I really want
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Monday, January 29, 2007 10:19 PM

The house smells yummy

It smells like cinnamon buns and chocolate chip cookies. I needed some sort of roll but was out of white sugar. I had a recipe from an online friend for cinnamon buns that used brown sugar. So I started the dough during dinner and let it rise. Nick ended
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Friday, January 26, 2007 10:38 PM

Friday night update

This week has been a bit busy. I ended up picking up 2 lovely medium blue armchairs for Devin's office. I still need to head over and give them a good cleaning before he can use them but they will look very nice in his office. Treanna had a choir
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Monday, January 22, 2007 8:53 PM

Mondays are not bad

Or at least this one wasn't. I had a nice quiet day at home alone. Did laundry and made chocolate chip cookies. Of course I made dinner too. I had to clean the kitchen and the fridge. Before I could make cookies I also needed to clean out the oven
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:29 PM

Crafting and the house

I am just currently kind of proud of myself and amazed. Not only have I been able to do more crafting but the house has not suffered from neglect while I have been doing so. Even after some company I only need to do a few dishes. Granted the kitchen and
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:00 PM

another Tuesday, laundry, and snow

Today was an odd day but good. This morning I had to take the kids early to school so Treanna could go to choir. On choir days Alaric goes to a friends in the morning to go to school with him on the bus so I don't have to head up the hill twice. Well
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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:45 PM

What I have been doing the last 2 days

I have been working on long neglected tasks in the last 2 days. My entire goal for the weekend was to clear off the top of my craft table. It took quite a lot of work and I am not finished with the area but I hit my goal yesterday. See!!! I don't
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:44 PM

January is busy..

Unfortunately it has been slightly crazy. I forgot to post a picture of the yummy dessert my girlfriend S brought me for my birthday. It is a mousse filled chocolate teacup! Plus she had a gorgeous little teacup wall pocket for my dining room wall as
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:39 PM

Birthday update

Today did turn out to be a wonderful day even if I did discover that my turn signals were not functioning that well on my little mazda. I ended up going into the office with Devin. Partly so I could have lunch at the Olive Garden with him but also so
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:59 PM

The December Windstorm

This is a quick update for those we did not tell in person. No we did not lose power except for maybe a couple of minutes. We just shut down all the computers and other stuff in the house and went to bed. There was no damage from falling trees or anything
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Friday, November 03, 2006 9:36 AM

Sewing, tea and household

I meant to blog much earlier in the week but have been busy. Friday when I went to Snohomish to buy some tea. I did not come home with nearly as much tea as I thought. I also placed an order for our favorite teas from Bonnie Rose of Tea Time Garden .
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Monday, October 30, 2006 5:22 PM

Sometimes the idea is worse than the doing.

Today I started working on my to-do list for the week. High on that list were several projects that were on the MUST do portion of that list. I have been dreading doing these tasks and honestly figured on at least an hour for each one of them. Well I
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Friday, October 13, 2006 3:52 PM

Magazines and Sunday Dinner

A couple of weeks ago I picked up some magazines from Freecycle. I am not one to normally just go pick them up but I saw that special keyword of "Victoria" so off to Sammamish I went to get them. It was a nice drive and when I got there the
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:12 AM

A Tea Crisis in the Making

I used the very last of my Black Orange Spice tea to make my morning pot of tea. It was a pour out the dust on the bottom of the container sort of use up. This is just sad and a bit perplexing. Normally I would have run into my wonderful tea supplier
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Monday, October 02, 2006 4:10 PM

The ever changing house

It seems that just when we think we are done with some major project or another, something new comes up. We have done so much rearranging that at times I think we must have tried everything. Nope of course not. This time our project is again Devin's
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