Pretty soon we’ll be able to pick cherry tomatoes without leaving the house.

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A pepper on the pepper plant!

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for my taste, but Sam loves swimming at the city pool.

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Remember when the Bent Spoon garden was orderly? Yeah, that didn’t last long. The tomatoes have turned it into a jungle. Enter at your own risk.

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We took Sam to her first movie in a movie theater. It seemed appropriate that it be “Cars 2” because “Cars” was the first feature length film she ever saw (in 3 installments, while we were in Brighton in 2008, and she was 3 years old). Sam loves “Cars,” which has long been her comfort movie. We were pleased that while …

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Been hearing about Nia for a while now. It’s dancy. It’s sweaty. It’s fun!

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Today was the last day of the summer session of “Le club des amis”–now Pascal and Eugénie get to take a nice long rest. (If only I could join them!)

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Book Club met tonight, bedecked in Mardi Gras beads, to discuss Chris Rose’s 1 Dead in Attic. The book of essays about life in post-Katrina New Orleans is devastating, poignant, humorous and often Just Too Much. I got to take home the Mardi Gras beads for Sam. She was thrilled, though puzzled as to why anyone would …

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I am still wiped from last night’s “Family Football” hour. This morning Sam found our inflatable England football from last summer in the basement, and she’s been practicing her fancy footwork with it.

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