We usually visited my Grandparents in TN twice a year, at Christmas time and once in the summer. They lived on Yarnell road just off of Campbell Station road. I remember Campbell Station as a treacherous windy road with a cliff to one side and a forested hill on the other. The road was slightly [...]

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Kathleen
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The other day I walked into her room to check on her and found her playing lullabies on her baby tad and gently rocking each of her stuffed animals to sleep.  Later, I found her combing her toy Lion’s hair.  She’d gently comb his hair then run into the bathroom for another kind of brush [...]

Posted on March 30th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Living out in the country meant that there were few kids our age around, so when we were young our only playmates were our siblings and the great outdoors.  I remember playing with my younger brother, Lee when we were little. I can remember building block structures and playing with little action figures. There was [...]

Posted on March 29th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Yesterday Isaac was in one of his creative moods.  This means he gets an idea and wants to talk about it. . .continuously.  He’s gone on for hours at a time, following me around the house as I do chores.  Here are the lines that I wrote down from today’s brainstorming session.  "What if [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Well, it looks like we might have some survivors.  We’re on version 2 for Polar Express, and Cheese has been replaced by Curious George.  We also have a little otocinclus to keep things clean; Isaac named him Cleaning Up Loader.  Which I guess works.  So, pictures: Polar Express is blue, and Curious George is orange.

Posted on March 15th, 2009 by Zach
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I had Mrs. Moyer for third grade and then again for third/fourth split.    She was my favorite teacher and I think I may have been her favorite student. At one point I got a C on my report card and I think she didn’t want me to feel bad about it because she gave me [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Today we got the kids their first fish.  They went with dad to pick the fish out.  Isaac named his fish ‘Polar Express’ and Charlotte named her fish ‘Cheese.’
Isaac:  The fish swims around the fish tank and the ‘Cheese’ fish stays down.  ‘Polar Express’ is the fish that swims and ‘Cheese’ isn’t.  That’s the whole [...]

Posted on March 7th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Here are pictures of us making these magical cookies.  As you can see, we made quite a mess.  The kids picked out all the shapes so we ended up with an interesting collection which included circles, hearts, dogs, cats, a sock (Christmas stocking), the letters H, P, and D, bunnies, gingerbread men, the number 1, [...]

Posted on March 6th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Isaac has been due for another haircut for a little while, but I’ve been reluctant to take him because I didn’t want to pay for another haircut (my mom cut all of our hair until we went to college, and to be honest during college too, so it seems a waste to pay). 
Anyway, [...]

Posted on March 4th, 2009 by Kathleen
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Isaac has a fear of tigers that has become a regular topic of conversation.  He’s afraid to go out at night for fear that tigers will get him.  Around Christmas time, my mother made all three kids a pair of tiger pajama pants to wear.  Isaac refused to wear the pants because he was [...]

Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by Kathleen
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2.22.09 "The new Grandma sings!" Charlotte upon hearing her grandma Bunny sing to Nicole
2.28.09  If Nicole spits up ever again, you should hold her over the toilet so the spit up will go into the toilet. Then Nicole would ask "where is my spit up?"  Isaac
After reading Richard Scary’s Busy, Busy Town, Charlotte wants [...]

Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Kathleen
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