tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42540457439278239232024-02-21T04:11:08.636-06:00three southern stoogesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-11563915111349685662014-10-27T11:50:00.000-05:002014-10-27T11:50:43.309-05:00Halloween quickie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My co-worker Jessica hosted a Halloween get-together last weekend. Clara is Sulley from Monster's Inc. this year. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-8256485591317580052014-04-27T22:07:00.000-05:002014-04-27T22:07:18.080-05:00Easter <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The three of us spent Easter at my mom's house - a long-time tradition, scaled down this year. It was nice and low-key. My mom was worried we wouldn't have the egg decorating contest since we weren't expecting a crowd, but it was an unnecessary worry... I'm not the most sentimental person, but I consider the contest (now 30 years old) to be non-negotiable. </div>
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GingerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-4319885893183394802013-10-28T21:46:00.002-05:002013-10-28T21:49:25.878-05:00bouncy castle madness!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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there is a new childhood epidemic... the upscale bouncy castle. we've encountered 2 within 3 days time, neither being expected. </div>
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at least when the above video was taken (at the daycare's fall festival), I didn't have to get in. not so lucky at the zoo... (they also had a magician. and country music. it was a weird day at the zoo.) </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-55617375124854599782013-10-14T21:20:00.000-05:002013-10-15T08:41:14.184-05:00parent-teacher conference + state fairToday we met with Clara's daycare teacher for her 2-year-old assessment. She had a single-spaced two-page list of milestones to discuss. She said Clara is "very smart," "very sweet," "very dramatic" and has a great imagination. The only thing she's lagging on is potty training, but we haven't really been pushing it.<br />
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Afterward, she wanted to water the tree.<br />
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The next day, she asked to plant another tree. If only we had infinite space and money, baby girl!<br />
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Here are some Earth Day-related posts from my old gardening blog:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-28501586194115351622013-04-07T21:36:00.001-05:002013-04-07T21:42:50.038-05:00Easter recapWe spent Easter at my mom's house. It was nice and low-key. The only three entrants into my family's annual egg contest were me, Scott and Clara. Clara recognized Scott's egg as a tiger but was adamant that my Pete the Cat is a <i>monster</i>. I got her wooden egg at Michael's - she colored it, directed where the googly eyes should be glued, then painted it. (I sealed it with Modge Podge.) She was very secretive and serious about the process! We will have some real competition in the future, I think.<br />
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See lots of old egg entries <a href="http://gibsonswafford.blogspot.com/2012/05/april.html" target="_blank"><span id="goog_22219681"></span>here<span id="goog_22219682"></span></a>.<br />
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The green overalls are a beloved hand-me-down given to Clara by Scott's cousin Kimberly. We didn't get any family shots this year because I was having a wardrobe crisis and, well, Scott doesn't like pictures. But, here are some shots of the girl.<br />
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On the way over there, I mentioned something about bunny cake (an Easter tradition) and she said "I love bunny cake!!" Of course, we laughed because she'd never had bunny cake, but that has since been remedied and she's either a good guesser or a baby psychic. She definitely loves bunny cake.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-51159151538606504162013-03-25T21:56:00.000-05:002013-03-26T09:49:10.732-05:00toddler hilarityduring my blogging drought, I kept notes on my iPhone of funny things Clara said or did that I wanted to remember. some highlights....<br />
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~19 months old: she is crazy about her Pete the Cat doll - takes him everywhere, sleeps with him, etc. she started wanting to "show Pete" everything (especially pictures in books) and she would cram him face first into whatever he was supposed to look at. around this time we also discovered that we could manipulate her into eating things if Pete "tried" them first. (a few months later, Pete got his flu shot first to help Clara be brave. seriously good strategy on daddy's part.)<br />
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~20 months: imaginative play increased dramatically. strawberries are tiny houses. a measuring cup in the bath is a perfect pot for cooking beans, which are then fed one by one to turtle and frog. (Turtle also likes candy.)<br />
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~21 months: she reportedly likes to wrestle with the boys at preschool. "wrestling" appears to mean throwing oneself on the ground and then giggling.<br />
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~22 months: language has exploded, but sometimes it's unclear if she understands what she's saying, especially with adjectives ("look at that creepy horse!" "I want to make a dark castle!")<br />
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~24 months: (grabs my phone) "I'm gonna text Bay [Bailey, our cat]" ... points to some of her bath toy animals and excitedly insists it's her "new family" (I work in the foster care system and she's read a comic book for foster kids, so that is likely the origin.) .... If you tell her she can pick out one more book to read before bed, she'll bring you the animal encyclopedia (239 pages).<br />
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~25 months: "I'm a bear! Mommy is a buffalo. Daddy is an aardvark." .... Q: Did you play with toys at school today? A: Yes. Q: What toys did you play with? A. The spooky alligator. .... Every day we pass a construction site with a mountain of red dirt and she says "It's a giant cake!" .... She brought daddy some "coffee" - a pot (from her play kitchen) full of Lego fences.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-76896964195708856792013-03-19T22:05:00.000-05:002013-03-20T08:29:11.769-05:00a moving targetI don't think the iPhone camera (at least the iPhone 4 camera) is optimized for fast-moving toddlers, but it's a handy tool for memorializing unexpected, funny, fleeting moments (quality of the pictures aside). A few of such moments from recent weeks:<br />
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more soon, I <strong>promise</strong>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-79908187075246495592012-11-01T23:02:00.000-05:002012-11-01T23:04:31.140-05:00HalloweenClara loves skeletons, bats, rats and most things Halloween. Still, since she's shy, we thought she might be freaked out by trick or treating. So we practiced at home, and it totally paid off! Tuesday we trick or treated at a dorm at Millsaps College. She was upset when it was over!<br />
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On Halloween, we trick or treated with a group of friends, and she again did great. We surprised her by dressing up like skeletons too. (Her costume is Carter's pj's and a Target pail. Our costumes are just black clothes with bones cut out of contact paper.)<br />
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GingerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-91530990148850393612012-10-10T00:16:00.001-05:002012-10-10T00:19:32.399-05:00One month agoI quit the "great" job that made me miserable a month ago today. Things have worked out beautifully (including a new job, though it wasn't in the picture when I quit!) -- more on all that soon. <br />
Suffice it to say, had I not taken the leap, I wouldn't have been with Scott for Clara's first state fair visit today!<br />
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Imagine our surprise on Day 1 when Scott pulled up in the drop-off line, and Clara let a stranger get her out of the car without incident. Imagine our shock when he picked her up later that morning and she hadn't cried at all, and was described by her "teachers" as "happy and ate a lot of snacks." <br />
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Day 2 she was described as "very happy" (and again "ate a lot of snacks") and -- get this -- she reportedly was trying to talk to and interact with the other kids. Clara?? They want to move her to the 2 year old room, where she'll be the youngest by a couple of months. (Currently she's in the 1 year old room, where she is older than most of the kids, though not the oldest.) <br />
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I'm a pessimist and Scott is an optimist, but this has gone better than <em>either</em> of us ever imagined. The only backlash is that she's been tired and cranky in the evenings. We're going to put her to bed earlier and see if that helps. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we celebrated a successful day 1 with a trip to the park,<br />
where she proceeded to go down The Big Twisty Slide all by herself</td></tr>
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Did you hear something??? (Oh, that was just my sigh of relief heard around the world!)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-65516614123837532122012-08-20T00:12:00.000-05:002012-08-20T00:12:56.331-05:00day 1 of "school"I have so many updates to post!<br />
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Fun adventures...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the beach</td></tr>
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Toddler weirdness...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">practicing for next time it rains</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">enjoying a snack of plain whole wheat hamburger<br />buns and water. must be served on an old<br />cookie sheet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">playing "car" - one of many times on any<br />given day</td></tr>
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But, it's going to have to wait because we're busy getting ready for Clara's first day of (half-day) preschool tomorrow!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I draw the line at labelling socks.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-88967211258967318172012-08-06T22:41:00.001-05:002012-08-06T22:41:07.798-05:00very brief tips for a successful road trip with a toddler1. Don't go when his or her molars are coming in.<br />
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2. Chocolate chip cookies!<br />
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look at those rosy (hot) cheeks! poor baby girl. it seems to just be teeth, and thankfully baby tylenol gets her back to her sassy self in no time.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I will only eat Teddy Grahams tonight and you'll be <br />
happy I ate <em>something</em>. Trick's on you!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">{waking hours are spent 20% playing, 30% eating, <br />
50% reading}</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">{she is obsessed with the pink cup from Old Navy. <br />
I am obsessed with the denim mini from Old Navy.}</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">{just in case you thought she forgot how to smile!}<br />
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hope everyone has a great week! -ggUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-90970278432065797052012-07-15T23:26:00.000-05:002012-07-24T15:35:56.218-05:00tuesday rituals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Clara has been taking weekly group swimming lessons since she was 7 or 8 months old. I'd never been with them until a couple of weeks ago, when I took off July 3 instead of the 4th just for that purpose. </div>
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It was so nice to spend an extra day with my family and to see what they do every Tuesday.<br />
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Have a great week!<br />
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<em>Edited 7/24/12 - Due to Chik-Fil-A's bigotry, they have now switched the Tuesday chicken meal to Zaxby's/Raising Cane's</em> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-68884311208842801742012-07-04T22:21:00.000-05:002012-07-04T23:12:29.393-05:00Dada is teaching her about manners... and zombies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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So far June has been lazy and warm. We attended/semi-helped-host a block party at which Clara discovered the joy of watermelon on the rind. I've been doing a lot of soul-searching about my career path. We're gearing up for our annual beach trip in late July. <br />
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More on all that soon. For now, here's May in pics:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">three generations, mother's day<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">worn out from making everyone do "jazz hands" at breakfast</td></tr>
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G.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-13051839490009388592012-05-31T00:15:00.000-05:002012-05-31T00:23:06.913-05:00splash park video + new designthere are a few splash parks in town, but we're partial to the one at the Mississippi Museum of Art because that's where we got married. luckily, Clara loves it too :)<br />
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in other news... let me know if the new design/template is working ok for you. I've only tested it on my little laptop screen at home so there may be kinks to work out. <br />
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TGIT - one more day til the weekend!<br />
-G.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-76013241665632454392012-05-28T22:36:00.000-05:002012-05-28T22:37:59.940-05:00new name + under construction<div style="text-align: left;">
ever since our dog passed away, we haven't felt like much of a "zoo." so, we're renaming the blog "three southern stooges" (because, you know, we're so hilarious...) working on the new look and will have it up shortly - you may run into construction but it shouldn't affect the posts. web address will remain the same. thanks for your patience :)</div>
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G</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-68734539876429473902012-05-27T22:28:00.000-05:002012-05-28T22:42:38.278-05:00April<div style="text-align: left;">
Before we get to the toddler antics of May (night terrors! tomato tantrums!), here's a recap of April in pics. Clara had her 15-month well-visit in April and was 22 pounds (40ish percentile) and 31 inches (60ish percentile). She was no longer anemic, thanks to a near-daily dose of kidney/black beans. Her language has exploded in the last few weeks, but was still slow-going in April, though she did add "owl." She also had 2 of the 3 hardcore tantrums she's had to date in April, one over having to wear shoes, and one over being forced (by mama) to vacate the driveway of a house where some friendly dogs live that she likes to harass (indefinitely, if you'll let her). Overall, though, she was still a fun, sweet girl in April :) Caution: a toooon of pics ahead:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">she saw the flamingos from this far off and went running</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">trying to climb into the duck exhibit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">final goodbye to <a href="http://gibsonswafford.blogspot.com/2012/02/zoo-loses-its-only-canine.html" target="_blank"><strong>our old friend</strong></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this dirt party went on for awhile :)</td></tr>
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My family has a crazy Easter egg decorating contest every year. (You can read about past entries at <a href="http://lawofthelandblog.blogspot.com/search?q=easter" target="_blank"><strong>my old gardening blog</strong></a>.) Here's my flamingo from this year: </div>
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PS- I added a couple of videos from March to my last post, so check them out if you're still reading (ha)/so inclined<br />
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PPS - Otis' grave-marker came from <strong><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/bakemanart?ref=seller_info" target="_blank">this shop</a></strong>. We love it.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-74124746127182044342012-05-14T23:35:00.000-05:002012-05-27T20:55:37.644-05:00while I ponder, time Marches on<div style="text-align: left;">
suddenly it is mid-May... been almost a month since I last posted (the hard-to-write "working mom" post), and I have pictures going back to mid-March floundering in Picasa. Clara looks entirely different now. her hair is longer, thicker and curlier. she's visibly stretched upwards in the last month like she's been put on one of those medieval torture devices. everything except her growth is static. work, the house, my health - going along with the motions while I wait to win the lottery or something. </div>
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my laughing, smiling beacon in the night keeps shining, though, inspiring me everyday to do better for myself, our family and the world. I'll be catching up on photos over the next week or so, detailing her 15 month stats, telling hilarious stories involving zombies and babies, and more. so look for a lot more action on the Zoo starting now, starting with March wrap-up pics:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">feeding the fish 10x what they need</td></tr>
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she's so much more steady and less Frankenstein-esque with her walking now that it's funny to look back on this video from the end of March. it's insane how fast she changes and grows.</div>
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ps. if you don't already know, Jen of Maybe If You Just Relax lost her daughter Ainsley over the weekend. this little girl's fight was inspirational, and her loving parents had already lost her twin at birth 16 months ago. if you are so inclined to offer condolences, here is <a href="http://www.jennepper.com/2012/05/peace-for-ainsley.html" target="_blank">their website</a>. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-69048312307202094122012-04-20T23:37:00.000-05:002012-04-20T23:52:13.830-05:00one year as a working mom<br />
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a year ago today, I went back to work, almost 12 weeks* after Clara's birth. it was a hard, hard day, the date of which I will never forget. I've been sort of dreading the "anniversary" for awhile and all day today, thought I should write something about it tonight. </div>
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since Scott ended up quitting his job to stay home with her 50ish weeks ago, I haven't had the added stress of her being in daycare (though that will come next year). I know she's received just as good of care from her dada as she would have with me. but... I miss her. every day. and I beat myself up for not working more productively so I can leave early and spend more time with her, etc etc. I suppose this is the infamous "mom guilt."</div>
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now, she's such a big, funny, sweet, smart girl. she's shy, like I was as a kid (and still am, really). much cuter though =)</div>
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though I'm rarely effective at turning stress/sadness into action, I wanted to do something special to commemorate surviving this year. so tonight, I finished a project I've been putting off - a tent Scott and I were building for Clara's play area. he finished the frame a week or so ago; I just needed to make the cover. </div>
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can't wait to give it to her in the morning, and to cherish every minute I <em>do</em> get to spend with her reading books and goofing off in there...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*I would be remiss in not thanking my dad, who paid my hospital bill so I could stay home longer (my job had no paid leave)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4254045743927823923.post-21912085038103648172012-04-16T23:43:00.000-05:002012-04-16T23:43:12.496-05:00the difference a year makes<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Mirror Lake, April 2011</strong></div><br />
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