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  • 1 Jan 2010 Hike in Ridley Creek State Park

    Jan 1, 2010

    What am I getting myself into? The Photo365 concept is cool, a couple of friends are doing it, and AC is not going to see Sam for a month or more, since he heads back to SF tomorrow while Sam and I stay in PA until the UK visas are ready and we head across the pond. We don’t really know when that will be. Time to …

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  • The Middle of Nowhere

    Dec 22, 2009

    Not where we’re located at the moment, thankfully, though AC might be feeling that way as he’s right this minute spending the day at SFO waiting to catch a red-eye to the east coast, after his original flight got canceled because of the nor’easter that slammed us over the weekend. (Sam and I made it to PA just fine …

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  • Thankful

    Dec 19, 2009

    This November we made a Thanksgiving tree. We started with twigs from the back yard, dirt and twine. Then we added felt and brown paper ā€œleaves.ā€ On the leaves we wrote things that we are thankful for. Sam is crazy about writing these days and insisted on writing her own gratitudes (with me spelling the words for her). …

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  • Halloween 09

    Nov 13, 2009

    I’ve been neglecting the blog of late because I’m pouring all available nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and adverbs into the novel I’m writing for NaNoWriMo. As of today the novel is 21,666 words and I need to get to 50,000 by the end of November. These words you see here? Renegades. They’re slipping through …

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  • September Craft Digest: A Family Affair

    Oct 15, 2009

    All three of us got our craft on last month. The first rainy Saturday we spent making rubber stamps for our Letterboxing obsession. AC did the actual carving. Here Sam makes us a model for the butterfly stamp she wanted: My tulle tutus for Sam’s little ā€œmagical dress-upā€ birthday party. Try saying ā€œtulle tutusā€ twenty …

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  • 4

    Oct 2, 2009

    ā€œā€˜What are you doing up there, Charlotte?’ ā€˜Oh, making something.’ she said. ā€˜Making something, as usual.'ā€ Charlotte’s Web has been running through my mind lately, not only because the audiobook is still the daily soundtrack around here, but also because I’ve been feeling a little like Charlotte recently. After Sam …

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  • Our New Favorite Pastime

    Sep 28, 2009

    Warning: this activity is highly contagious. It involves ink, stamps, maps, compasses, clues, and an internet connection. It will make you look at your neighborhood differently. It will make you get on your knees a lot. You will spend time hunched down poking through bushes, counting trees, peering into hollow logs, …

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  • August Craft Digest

    Sep 18, 2009

    Salt dough letters and shapes: They looked like cookies until Sam painted them. Egg carton spiders: We made these when we were reading Charlotte’s Web. We also use them in French class when we sing ā€œL’araignée gypsieā€ (The Itsy Bitsy Spider). Using the hole punch on painted egg carton was difficult and so the second …

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  • Someone Who Makes You Laugh

    Aug 28, 2009

    Tonight when I was putting Sam to bed, she said, pulling the covers up to her chin petulantly, ā€œI want a new Mommy. One that lets me do the things I want to do.ā€ ā€œOK,ā€ I said. And I thought, for the hundredth time today, ā€œThank goodness AC comes home tomorrow!ā€ AC has been in the UK for the past two weeks. I’ve missed …

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  • Just Pretend

    Aug 23, 2009

    I cried this morning during read-a-loud time. It was the penultimate chapter of Charlotte’s Web. Sam handed me a tissue and said, ā€œIt’s OK, Mommy. It’s just pretend.ā€ While I was crying and trying to read the words using the voices for each character that I had settled on (Charlotte– cultured, standard American; …

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CarolynFay

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