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Father’s Day 2009
Father’s Day is quite the event in the US and the third date on which we have celebrated it. It’s almost as big as Mother’s Day and very similar in many ways — breakfast in bed, children shower you with presents and adoration and generally have a bit of a bludge. Ariana is usually the…
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Summer Holiday Plans 2009
After saving up my holiday time from work we are thinking about a couple of weeks away. Specifically, a trip to Vancouver, BC, Canada to renew our US visas and a trip to a campground in northern California where we intend to do pretty much nothing for as long as we can get away with…
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Rugby 2009
Being Australian we do enjoy a lot of sports and, having left the country, we often go to some lengths to ensure our children receive a good sporting education. This usually involves grabbing relevant sporting events — Tri Nations, Super 14, State of Origin, AFL Grand Final — from the internet since they don’t receive…
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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…