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Quick Memorial Weekend Recap

Here I go getting behind again on my blogging – I’ve been busy and work and staying up late worrying about how to keep my fantasy baseball team in first place. So instead of getting into too much about last weekend, I’ll just do a summary. There were enough things that happened that I needContinue reading “Quick Memorial Weekend Recap”

11pm Rendez-vous

It sounds a lot more interesting than it is. We are working on getting Amelia to sleep without a diaper, so for the past couple months, I’ve been waking her up at 11pm (give or take 20 minutes) to go to the bathroom. It’s the only thing that works. If you let her sleep throughContinue reading “11pm Rendez-vous”

A Year of Change

Becky’s back with another post: This past school year has been a pretty big one for us. Katie finishes kindergarten next Friday and Amelia has already finished junior pre-school. Both of them have grown substantially in the past year. Katie in particular went from a 5 year old straight to a teenager. She actsContinue reading “A Year of Change”

Running with the Wind(s)

In high school, I had four good friends – Uggie, Brad, J-Rock and John. We pretty much spent the better part of our days and evenings together from middle of our sophomore year on. We always made a point of getting together when we came back from college on breaks and in the summers. BradContinue reading “Running with the Wind(s)”

Katie’s Reading Program

Katie’s kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Messer, held a year end Reading Program in her class last Thursday. She invited all the parents in to see what they’d been working on this year. She started out by showing what animal each kid is like. Everyone chose an animal except for Katie – she said she would beContinue reading “Katie’s Reading Program”

Amelia’s School Year

Amelia started her first year of school this year – she had Junior Preschool on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:15 to 11:00. We were a little skeptical about how she’d like it – since she wasn’t the greatest listener (at least at home), so we weren’t sure how much she would listen at school. ItContinue reading “Amelia’s School Year”

Switcheroo

I thought I was doing my Mother’s Day Weekend duty this weekend by folding clothes and making and cleaning up after dinner so Becky could have a nice, relaxing weekend. Then we somehow decided to spend 8 hours of hard manual labor on Sunday switching all the bedrooms around. In doing, we managed to removeContinue reading “Switcheroo”

Our Property

I stopped by our lake property last Sunday for the first, and perhaps only time this year. We own a lot on Sewell Lake that is completely empty – no utilities or structures or anything. Last year we planted 150 trees, so I went to take a look at how they were doing and tookContinue reading “Our Property”

The Gang of 8

The men of card weekend assembled once again this past weekend in St. Cloud, MN for the 12th annual 500 tournament of champions. The card gods were brought together to determine supreme authority for another year. Here’s the setup, adjusted slightly from my 2007 article: The Wikipedia article on 500 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_%28card_game%29 – has aContinue reading “The Gang of 8”

Student of the Month for April

We walked into Day Care to pick up the girls tonight, and found Katie was wearing a different shirt from what she wore to school. This happens every once and a while when she spills on her shirt or has some kind of accident, so we assumed that was the case. Instead, we were veryContinue reading “Student of the Month for April”