family

putt putt

we were having some issues with bedtime since the boy and girl moved into the same room, so the boy came up with a solution. when everything is done (books, hugs, teeth brushed, etc) and it is time for them to go to bed we set a timer for five or ten or fifteen minutes, […]

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back to school

yesterday was “special persons day” at the boy’s school. all the kids were allowed to bring in one adult to see the classroom, school, etc. so he picked me and i was back to school for a couple of hours in the morning. it was pretty cool, i got to see all the various rooms;

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return

we made it back pretty much unscathed from our trip to the country. the only highway excitement was on the way home when the wife was driving, a big rig had a tire blow out about a hundred feet in front of us. pretty loud but the truck driver was unfazed and just kept going

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south

we’ll be loading up the family truckster and heading south again this weekend, in a couple of hours in fact. stopping in cinnci tonight and then on to the annual fall festival in kentucky on saturday. activities promised include fishing, horse rides, the fall hay ride, the big bonfire and camping out. the big kids

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full fall

this weekend is the harvest moon, it is called that because it gives off enough light to let farmers work late into the night harvesting their crop. at least, that’s what i recall. all my crops are in so i won’t have to use the extra light. i took the big kids for a walk one

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scheduling

this was the first week the boy took the bus to school so some morning scheduling adjustments had to be made. his bus is supposed to arrive a couple of houses down the street from our house at 7:37am but the kids who rode it last week informed us it was arriving early. apparently we are the

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home on the range

thing are settling down. i’ve taken the rest of the week off of work. the m-i-l will be up all next week so i’m going to be at the office. recapping the last couple of days. . . i was actually up pretty late when it was me, the boy and the girl at home.

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