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Deep breath.  Wow.  What a luxury.  Writing on my blog.  As chance would not normally have it, my house is perfectly quiet right now.  Jane and Camp are, of course, at school.  Danin is at a friend’s house, and Skip is napping.  So I get to write.  I’ve told you before how much I enjoy …

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Since it has kinda become a tradition–a copy of my Christmas letter:         Dear Friends and Family,   A few months ago, as the summer was nearing its end, Brian and I were talking about how life had kinda settled down and things had been pretty good.  I told him I felt like …

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With regard to what’s been up with us for the last month or so, “Let me ‘splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.”(Big time bonus points to whomever can name the movie that quote comes from.)     Nope.  I don’t even have time or energy to sum up. So here’s some …

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With regard to what’s been up with us for the last month or so, “Let me ‘splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.”(Big time bonus points to whomever can name the movie that quote comes from.)     Nope.  I don’t even have time or energy to sum up. So here’s some …

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I just wanted to again thank all of you who have helped make dinners a little less stressful for me.  I am “choosing” all of the dinner suggestions that were left in response to my last post–they all sound wonderful!– so those people will get double entries.  I will draw a winner (see last post …

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I just wanted to again thank all of you who have helped make dinners a little less stressful for me.  I am “choosing” all of the dinner suggestions that were left in response to my last post–they all sound wonderful!– so those people will get double entries.  I will draw a winner (see last post …

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