Year: 2009
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Broken Boy Elijah
The wrist was first (aggressive inline skating). The knee came after coming off a scooter he wasn’t supposed to be on.
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Movie Insufficient for Gaynor
Even though we’ve lived and travelled across different parts of the globe now we still pine for the fjords of Australia.[1] Though it has only been just over four years, sometimes it feels like a different life. A couple of months ago we went along with my visiting brother Martin — who has been out…
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Easter 2009
While Good Friday is currently sacrosanct as a holiday in Australia and Germany — indeed in many other countries that we’ve never experienced it in — that’s not the case in the U.S. At least, not in California. I’m told some other states do have it as a holiday but, well we don’t live there.…
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A Recent Vote
We’ve always done our best to include the children in family decisions. We believe it is good for them and good for the parents. Matters such as, where we’ll go for holidays, where we’ll eat and what we’ll be watching. When there is no real common consensus, we’ll usually take a vote. However that sometimes…
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I was walking down the street …
… when suddenly my spectacles’ prescription ran out. So said Steven Wright[1]. I always thought that was funny in an new-way-to-see-it kind of way but as with a number of things that reference US culture — usually The Simpsons — it’s funnier (and in this case, sadder) when you have even more knowledge of the…
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Facebook following
Those who have been a part of the social networking website phenomena would be aware that it can be a simple and effective way to stay relatively involved in the lives of good friends and loved ones. Indeed, half of our family now have profiles on one of the largest — Facebook — including myself,…
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No longer a toothless wonder
To ring in the new year, Micah produced his first tooth — his lower front left — on the first day of the year and its companion showed up today. Those months of dribble are starting to pay off. He’s only been bested in the Fastest to Teeth Stakes by Joshua who clocked in at…