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A pleasant evening on Lake Wingra…

We spent last evening at a small exhibition of watercraft, where Sophie bravely sampled everything they had to offer — from canoes and kayaks to standing paddleboards — despite her own fairly extreme reluctance to get her face wet, and Christy even managed to talk Haley into a tandem kayak. This was a bit of […]

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Irish eyes are smiling

The girls have really taken to St. Patrick’s Day and after some online browsing of leprechaun trap photos, Haley spent an entire evening turning a cardboard box into a St. Patrick’s themed wonder.  Sophia added the ladder and sign (and had hoped for a trickier trap) and crafted a note in code, mentioning that she’d […]

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A bit of Spring…

I’ve never planted amaryllis before, but I saw the bulb on sale at our local grocery store in December and decided to give it a try. After the initial potting with the cool coconut fiber expanding potting material, we pretty much forgot about it until it started to bud two weeks ago. The girls were […]

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So we headed to Chicago’s Chinatown….

…for the New Year’s parade last weekend — and, while taking advantage of the truly lovely and unseasonal weather,  introduced my in-laws to dim sum, which somehow they’d never managed to encounter. (The girls, of course, had their usual — sesame chicken covered in sweet orange goop over mounds of white rice — but the […]

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Knocking on wood….

I don’t want to jinx us, here, but Haley has actually managed to sleep in her own bed for two consecutive nights, only requiring a couple visits from us. Something went wrong with her sleep habits early on and we never quite managed to address it successfully, no matter what we tried; as a consequence, […]

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