tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255707322024-03-14T02:00:57.148-07:00i am saved by the buoyancy of citrusraychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.comBlogger1603125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-33100235150103585702018-05-07T21:32:00.001-07:002018-05-07T21:32:27.827-07:00It feels like summer nights already, we been doing summer-nightsy stuff<div><br></div><div><img id="id_d1be_fd9a_6833_3651" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XHcPI2h-xHI/WvEoVFIzG5I/AAAAAAAAUm0/eN1cY8CwOb0SRjP_dANDEmdjY_BuyK3dwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div>But it’s still school days </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_e7cf_8598_39f5_4fb2" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WbF_-L2vsIg/WvEoWhlk7CI/AAAAAAAAUm8/1d9fx3xOR_QJ14HXNbOPQX9AP4om4QVhwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div>And this morning I had to drag ERbody out of bed. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_e1b4_534_a177_9dc2" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-19cYFIaDxkQ/WvEoWQYj35I/AAAAAAAAUm4/IVXXYoYWFQU0OdSy1NBh3hrVska0HDlmQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-52112844310006564482018-05-06T13:31:00.000-07:002018-05-06T13:40:02.491-07:00If a blogger posts in the woodsOh man, hi blogger, hi. Thinks keep happening! And every time I have a birthday or go to the tulip festival or go to the lake for a readathon, I'm like, I should blog about this! But like who has the time, the blogger app on my phone no longer works, the replacement app isn't as user-friendly, and instagram exists! (Come <a href="https://www.instagram.com/raychraychraych/?hl=en">find me there</a>! That's where all my good shit is.)<br />
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But there are things that happen that don't lend themselves to even the longest of instagram stories, so here's some stuff: We put Lionel in the jolly jumper for the first time on my birthday, and he was in there for like 45 minutes! I was like, What an anomaly, it's a birthday miracle, but it TURNS OUT he will just be in the jolly jumper until you take him out, it's amazing. The day after the readathon, my sister and I were sitting in my house, having tea, waiting for our kids to arrive, and after about an hour I was like, Lionel should probably sleep. And I went to get him and noticed that he had jumped the skin ENTIRELY OFF of the one little toe that curls under, and was MERRILY jumping in a pool of his own blood and omg omg. Now he wears a single sock to jump.<br />
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Anyway. At least it happened on my dark wood floors and not on the beautiful white shag rug at Jane's cabin.<br />
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Another thing that is happening is that the girls are playing 'Butler and Queen' and here's Geneva, eating a platter of things Eleanor found in the garden for her (and it's <i>early</i>, so like it's chives, chard, and broccoli) while Eleanor does her hair.<br />
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The sun is out, our legs are bare, we cut down that massive old dying cedar behind our house and planted some fruit trees in the bizarro no-man's land beside the garage, I've planted asparagus this year, holy golly do I ever have a garden post in me somewhere apparently.<br />
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Lol asparagus is ridiculous. ANYWAY. Hi.raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-84124535295558153722018-03-25T14:50:00.001-07:002018-03-25T14:50:08.813-07:00Independence Oh hey! Things are doing stuff! For starters, I moved this little nougat out of my room last week. <div><br></div><div><img id="id_8458_645c_d6d6_8966" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V1Q23H6Tqq8/WrgZitE9M7I/AAAAAAAAUkc/7bAavKlhvDUpS7y6L1LFIW0sp9pUOWcJgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div>It was sweet, having my last baby sleeping by my bedside, and convenient when he was eating every three hours. And he’d wake up in the wee hours and I’d just drag him into bed with me and nurse him there. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_a348_2b00_9342_e187" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PMll9nDt2Rw/WrgZgLii_2I/AAAAAAAAUkM/y9SZt-zl1tM8IcezsJL7AiHDXmSnSOr-ACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div>Or it’d be the less-wee hours and I’d feed him and then we’d hang out until it was time to rouse the girls. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_4e6b_f6ff_135d_5bf3" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xS4bVRtHPS0/WrgZhuQTKtI/AAAAAAAAUkQ/gz_y-Rz_7JQwW3QNsfZRthgyPTbr7OsWACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div>Maybe we’d read a book together. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_8ac_d35_53a3_60ae" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Bz_8WpNarew/WrgZh9B-lsI/AAAAAAAAUkU/q1fcBZFAZTkcde5y9aldOkcbow79ryGzgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div>Now he’s in his own room, so big and brave. His room is typically third-kid ready. There’s a basinnet in the back corner, if you squint. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_93e7_eb08_bf3_f3b2" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SflpuqgNjNI/WrgZiSURSTI/AAAAAAAAUkY/l-WT4BQVoqER3DWNoRGksG6I5HDaQ4U8QCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div>I love eating spicy chips in my bed at night, it feels salacious. I love waking up at 6 and having my coffee with my lamp ON, before everyone else comes pouring out of their rooms. Often the li’l man is still asleep at 7, and we all go wake him up together. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_3e47_4d43_d0a0_822e" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vK-Z3YeSnGs/WrgZjx3CCTI/AAAAAAAAUkk/gTc13lrj1RgLrSorODxV_M_aXfxf-37dQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div>Joel is putting together his crib today, though, because look at this monstrous sir. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_4076_7094_536e_b62d" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1NJjBh2yy6E/WrgZjj_hpdI/AAAAAAAAUkg/uzH1eFrF2CU9vLWp3iLbwfr57SWpwR7OgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-81983169354268809152018-01-22T09:59:00.003-08:002018-01-22T10:21:34.848-08:00Lionel Comes AlongJoel was home for a few days after Lionel was born, and then my mom moved in with us to help get the girls to school and dance and soccer, and then it was Christmas, and then Joel was home again, and then school started and I was on my OWN. Gotta get these big girls to all their activities! And Lionel just...comes along. Comes to school drop-off!<br>
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Comes to field trips!<br>
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Comes to the theater to see Beauty and the Beast!<br>
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Comes to dinner afterward!<br>
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Comes to read our chapter book before bed!<br>
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Comes grocery shopping!<br>
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Comes to soccer!<br>
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Comes downstairs to watch football!<br>
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Comes to get the mail!<br>
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Such an agreeable and well-traveled little babeling.raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-29760882294670540312018-01-09T13:48:00.001-08:002018-01-18T14:06:58.129-08:00Now We Are SixELEANOR TURNED SIX. What even.<br>
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The night before, I had told her I wasn't sure I'd be able to flood her room with balloons because Geneva sleeps on the bottom bunk, which is basically on the floor, and would be overrun with them in her sleep, but mostly because I didn't think I'd be able to stay awake until she fell asleep. 'That's ok. You can just put a bunch of balloons downstairs!'<br>
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We had leftover whipped cream from our hot chocolating, so we topped our cereal with it.<br>
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I set up the birthday tree, and this is maybe the only positive side to Lionel's December birthday, that I'll only have to drag the tree unseasonally out of storage once a year.<br>
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Joel and I got her a microscope and a chemistry set, because she's becoming a huge nerd. She spent the morning learning facts<br>
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and doin' science.<br>
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Geneva kept herself busy.<br>
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Is she playing Zingo with a stuffed dog, and playing both cards? <div><br></div><div>
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Eleanor asked months ago for a red velvet cake, baked in my fancy bundt pan, with rainbow cream cheese icing and also she wanted to pick the sprinkles out herself.<br>
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So like a MONTH ago, we were all at the grocery store together and got a box of red velvet cake mix because you guys! I DON'T LIKE BAKING CAKES AND IT TURNS OUT I'M NOT GOOD AT IT AND CAKE FROM A BOX IS DELICIOUS. She picked some gold sprinkles, and we iced and sprinkled the cake together, and it was SO EXACTLY what she wanted and I told her that's what comes of being very specific in your instructions.<br>
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And it was beautiful and sunny so we went to the park and went sledding.<br>
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Eleanor has <a href="https://iwillreachforalime.blogspot.ca/2015/01/three-year-olds-live-large.html">historically had very good sledding weather</a> for her birthdays.<br>
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Ice chunks kept falling from the playground and lamp posts and stuff, you had to keep an eye out. 'This is a TROUGH.'<br>
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This is a sleep-monster in a too-big bearsuit.<br>
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And then, as is now tradition, we tore the gingerbread house to bits.<br>
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Ugh, so sugary.<br>
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And then the grands and the cousins came over! I continue to get away with not throwing a real party for one more year.<br>
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Last summer, Eleanor kept DRAWING on herself during her quiet time, and I was like, Can u don’t. Finally I was like, If you can keep from drawing on yourself for the REST OF THE SUMMER, we can have a party where we draw on ourselves and it's fine. And then I <i>forgot</i> about that but you know who did <i>not</i> forget.<br>
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So we did that.<br>
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And then we had nachos, and cake, and presents, and then the girls vanished to the dress-up bin until it was time to go home. Every time we do a thing like this, it just reaffirms our decision to move back here.<br>
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And the next weekend, we had Birthday Brunch at my parents' house!<br>
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Eleanor ate her weight in potato patties, and cinnamon pull-apart.<br>
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Whatever Geneva you loved it.<br>
<br><img id="id_2a82_a8c6_b8e_be0f" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NSopT2BLdf0/WmEaHzs2kFI/AAAAAAAAUg0/HlY4q_J5PPgkDJwQ81xZHo9gI-qghM2XwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>My aunt got Eleanor these thought-bubble headbands you can write on, and they were a HIT.<br>
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Those are dark thoughts, Geneva.<br>
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YES YOU ARE A DINOSAUR never change.<br>
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My mom got her an enormous thing of beads, and between those two things, the kids were taken care of for the afternoon.<br>
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Later that day, at home: This is because I'm thinking about my BIRTHDAY.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_8f1c_7aca_f5bf_b3e9" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-li1aeAsa18w/WmEaUqThSZI/AAAAAAAAUhI/hBwVCudIOtQVgBiHu2hJeB5RVsptXAxXACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-16998221595789127532018-01-04T17:35:00.001-08:002018-01-04T17:35:37.440-08:00Six-year-olds, man. Joel was talking about a podcast he was listening to where they were debating the plural of ‘octopus,’ and he says to me, Is ‘octopodes’ even a word?<div><br></div><div>But Eleanor heard ‘octoponies’ and was like, Ha!</div><div><br></div><div>And then she drew me an octopony. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_f605_1d8a_8e13_48cc" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c2RCG1MkkI4/Wk7WaCvWCDI/AAAAAAAAUec/WjQqI_6ev6wd1KIVRHMJzOH9DRFu53LAgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br> </div><div>Lookit his li’l smile. </div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-15447250131717588782018-01-01T13:16:00.001-08:002018-01-02T07:58:50.853-08:00 Christmas!OH HELLO<div><br></div><div><img id="id_ab1c_3f5b_79c7_3eb4" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9x5GtarBvc8/WkqlIc1X19I/AAAAAAAAUdE/YPGVlkL9NAgEV9HyZQY04pjziZJ-FRRKACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>Things have been happening. Did I tell you that ALL OF US had babies this year? Both of Joel’s sisters, and then both of mine, and then we squeezed Lionel in just under the wire. Christmas was laden with babies, I tell you. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_417b_8325_cb78_5761" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gMXR76pzaMI/WkqlFvVtDMI/AAAAAAAAUdA/mh5VKeUvfb82PN4bO08DusPp0vEggq7egCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>YOU get a baby, and YOU get a baby, and YOU ALSO get a baby!</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_238b_e0e9_a004_bf4c" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gbSZn3x1sLA/WkurztUwscI/AAAAAAAAUdY/9bNlWmkhNPkEJtwN9XKW4kne6Db15K_iQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>We introduced some new traditions this year, like the <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jólabókaflóð</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_91be_fde0_6dd5_5d73" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_yYBdx2z0gM/WkurwGiC-sI/AAAAAAAAUdU/vSG5n76dmX0IHrMMs4ydhL7pUb9cuvwmgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(this was my first solo day with three children, so it coincided nicely with when I had already planned to dump a bunch of new reading material on my kids)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_26a6_e528_aad3_56c" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1ReyPX2OJBE/Wkur1pMeavI/AAAAAAAAUdc/duZMqsaLB34YexyQNQV_Uu3eOjWBX9w9wCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">and held with some old traditions, like the hot-chocolate-Grinching </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_62f3_d8ca_10af_581b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fMfEvCk2Lhk/Wkur_ibzGoI/AAAAAAAAUdo/zPKJ_Up7jtEeDRgZFWLiciN1rrGpmnX1wCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">(also on this, my first solo day. I basically saved all my best tricks for this first day).</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_b10a_feb2_d2f5_ef59" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_xd_EDMT3nE/Wkur7w7yz2I/AAAAAAAAUdk/SAXCdayBaUoifyku9rnljTIWPyDeVNfjACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">And then in and among and around all the Christmas festivities we took Lionel to the dr (all of us)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_b8f8_905e_b6c2_2518" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rV3M8aSp4Nc/Wkur7TBIcII/AAAAAAAAUdg/82pPdA82tQQ6XvXrXYVbnzSsPxDON5rPQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">and painted some nutcrackers</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_76a1_e1f3_3357_d93" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n6uZlwy0KBk/WkusNWpVlII/AAAAAAAAUd4/VvJrX287ca4CNt_7o9MkmAuuCkWw_2w9ACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">and tattooed ourselfs </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_7e2a_fcf_3cdf_7ebf" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vytz2txuNMs/WkusKOcsmhI/AAAAAAAAUdw/Ilp7AIs-DPsmMR08LPNgyIFgq9P-mEI5QCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">SO TATTOOED</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_1ad8_75f5_5d15_5bb6" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5Yxgud8rvO8/WkusK-oI0OI/AAAAAAAAUd0/2Ht-eyG7Zk4tlU62p7-gV70FdqQ2aM3MQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">And also Eleanor turned six, more about which anon. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_a29e_ddb0_9a2d_b294" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ziNl0CLL2v8/WkusFAJ6QDI/AAAAAAAAUds/2UYK1Evpkm4_iwyloNqLWUuVeDip2HRyACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">And that was the last thing! That I had to plan for. You guys I have been making LISTS and pre-buying shit and dragging things out of storage and putting them somewhere accessible because I knew that once I had a baby, my time was no longer my own. I have been So Organized, because I still wanted to have a Christmas! And do all the things! But now the things are done and I can just sit here, trapped under this baby who won’t sleep in his swing today, and eat leftover cheese and the muffins my mom made for me when she was here, and wait for school to start again. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img id="id_cd83_96e2_66d2_482b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NZZP31r96IA/WkusOOivsaI/AAAAAAAAUd8/5vr8-ZSVWZIrRnt1n_BCklObhM0OwDwOACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-87075453246969472822017-12-19T08:53:00.001-08:002017-12-19T08:53:52.484-08:00That feeling whenyou’ve been replaced, first by the baby, then by the jug of milk!<div><br></div><div><img id="id_7195_26be_8e44_b4f5" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zbS2un3gYHU/WjlEHzq4CmI/AAAAAAAAUbw/yItEsjn1LLkZwl3YrmWZhYWbqscbjlVTACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>The indignity. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_e276_424_ef79_2620" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eEKQiXx_SAw/WjlEFTwUU4I/AAAAAAAAUbo/Lo9ySAyAR-ID20K-t-737CjmZ9AATboogCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>(My mom is here, say yay, say yay. It took the two of us an hour to get Lionel and Geneva and ourselves packed up for the grocery store. THANK GOODNESS SHE IS HEEEEERE.)</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_377f_31af_d37b_ac06" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q7IS9slcyJA/WjlEHDszILI/AAAAAAAAUbs/4cMAm8jItnEv-UwsnzfaKAZtM17FZxA3ACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-36988507059193310932017-12-17T16:14:00.001-08:002017-12-17T16:14:34.319-08:00Lionel JusticeI had a baby! His name is Lionel Justice, he is very small. <div><br></div><div><img id="id_c816_7d3d_55b5_3755" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A5vo5p62GlE/WjcIOxpDqnI/AAAAAAAAUbI/gmENfeSFlvg3Lz_lX4ozJxlezkRCGiaCQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>I used to read old-timey novels where an invalid would finally feel well enough to sit in a chair in the sun, and I’d be like, How hard is it to sit in a chair in the sun. And now I’m like, Oh.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_6951_7e5d_4cb_3c36" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YiL7E83hK_E/WjcIOHHOMJI/AAAAAAAAUbE/283lKpyi4WMuT7y5V5_42qM7LCfTEufOQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>That third c-section really takes it out of you! My uterus was allegedly transparent in parts, so it’s a good thing I didn’t go into labor, or want any more children, or end up having twins. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_9f18_d7c_e038_6372" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zYtj6gnh9ek/WjcIT3zXrHI/AAAAAAAAUbM/c74GSIlG_W07QS0TopjwFLzd4VGK6uVLwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>We have been home almost three whole days. Joel took the girls out this morning, they have been gone for HOURS, because he goes back to work tomorrow. I have been spending the day lying under or near a baby, or unstacking the dishwasher, or eating snacks. I did a load of laundry. Everything is so much, so I only get one day like this with this newborn while he is new born. It has been glorious. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_f71e_901d_c321_a5d7" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TE-hFIzWN8E/WjcIXseCAgI/AAAAAAAAUbQ/8ThRFQvNYLY1utrdYeOkTCc_Jfp4Q0cfgCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>My mom moves in for a while tomorrow, and then is Christmas, and then Eleanor turns six, and then Joel is off work again, and then school starts back up and by then, Lionel is nearly a month old. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_1471_87d3_1fd6_d58d" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nxCLsvK77Lc/WjcIZBZnXjI/AAAAAAAAUbU/Z2nL9iLFOQgjrp0a6boXbIyjpqQQdpl_wCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>But for now he is new, and he is so sleepy and warm. (It completely goes without saying but I’ll say it: the girls love him so, so much. They cannot stop telling him how much they love him. It is so, so much. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_3b15_2b21_8043_2da9" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WFIdnYMnWYY/WjcIZ7igB0I/AAAAAAAAUbY/i8pkIyMYTu0biG_SexN5Z3j-CoC29n9mQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br>)</div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-77257864267218749842017-12-06T14:21:00.001-08:002017-12-06T14:36:39.333-08:00Gingermansion foreverWe started the gingermansion last week because I feel like there is SO LITTLE TIME LEFT and we love it. We got as far as making the dough<br>
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(molasses is SO INTERESTING)<br>
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and then we lost days of our lives to that ferocious 24-hour bug that was going around. Can I recommend you don't.<br>
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So I and then Eleanor were sick in succession, the gingerdough went into the freezer, the kids went to my parents' place for the weekend because Joel and I had TWO (2) holiday parties to attend<br>
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and then suddenly it was Sunday morning and we were all home and healthy and had the day ahead of us. GOOD THING I HAVE THIS MASSIVE ISLAND IN MY KITCHEN NOW.<br>
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My job is to roll and cut out the gingermansion pieces, but also to monitor what's in the oven(s) (good thing I have two ovens now) (this house is amazing) and also roll out Geneva's dough-pile when she gets frustrated, while these two jokers WHIP THROUGH an innumerable amount of gingerbread cookies THEY ARE BOTH SO QUICK AND COMPETENT NOW I had to use all six of my cookie sheets, even the two sub-par ones I mostly keep around for chicken nuggets.<br>
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And then everyone went down for a quiet time and usually that would be it for the day<br>
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but I was feeling ambitious and also a little behind, and Sunday is a LONG DAY YOU GUYS so when they woke up, we decorated our walls!<br>
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Geneva still decorates like a toddler<br>
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but Eleanor has discovered PATTERNS and also RESTRAINT and I'm a little bit *weeping emoji* about it.<br>
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We save one wall for Joel, and he has to make due with the candies that are left.<br>
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WALLS GALORE.<br>
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Monday I assembled the house while the girls were at school/napping, and the rage this induces in me is just part of the tradition now. I literally do none of the shingling, though.<br>
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Nor the snowing.<br>
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I was shopping for candy decorations without the kids, which means I had no one to exercise restraint in front of, which is how we ended up with these gummy penguins.<br>
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Look this li'l creeper.<br>
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We jusssssst had room for a path this year, in addition to the logpile and lollypop forest. I need a BIGGER BASE. I want to turn some ice cream cones upside-down and make them into trees!<br>
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We were riddled with setbacks, like any major building project, but we are DONE and we are DELIGHTED.<div><br></div><div><img id="id_67c9_de65_7dad_9eb9" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fumPcfvVQkU/WihwxTn1kMI/AAAAAAAAUaQ/_VjYhaGd9tIA4sBiep224c48fgSvDuCaQCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br></div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-51155535531269787572017-12-04T20:54:00.000-08:002017-12-04T20:54:40.509-08:00*blows dust off*Oh yes, hello! How about that NoBlog November. I am still pregnant. I HAVE BEEN PREGNANT ALWAYS my face is fat, my hands are fat, my feet are fat. 'I will read a book to your fat feet,' says Geneva.<br />
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Newborns are so difficult and I'm deeply unenthused about getting a needle in my back and being cut open and then recovering while also nurturing new life, but we have so much help at hand this time, and the beauty of late pregnancy is that it's so awful. You KNOW things are about to take a steep dive but you don't care, you're so done. I'm SO DONE.<br />
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Besides. Look at these two I already made.<br />
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I can't help but be excited about another.raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-48175944732009308932017-11-02T20:30:00.001-07:002017-11-02T20:38:29.532-07:00Trick-or-treating like it's their jobHALLOWEEN GETS BETTER EVERY YEAR eventually one of my kids is going to be a sad sack about it and I'll have to stop saying that but NOT THIS YEAR.<br>
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I made them decide on their costumes like a week into October so we could start assembling the bits, and Eleanor drew up some costume pairings she thought would work.<br>
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(From left: Ariel and Rapunzel, an apple and some grapes, Wonder Woman and Batgirl, Belle and Elsa, Squirrel Girl and Tippy Toe)<br>
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Eleanor really wanted to be Squirrel Girl but Geneva didn't want to be the sidekick (what is this, last year?), she wanted to be Ms Marvel, and Eleanor took SOME CONVINCING that those two would be a legitimate pairing as they are both Marvel superheroes and have in fact appeared in a few issues together. 'I want them to be in the same book, mom.' But she finally agreed to mock Geneva up a Ms Marvel costume.<br>
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And then we spent two weeks pulling bits of things from thrift stores and gluing bits of other things onto still more things and dragging old jackets and boots out of storage.<br>
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LOOK AT HOW MARVELOUS SHE IS<br>
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Squirrel Girl, Squirrel Girl, powers of both squirrel and girl<br>
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And because I will readily admit that these are some niche superheroes and not everyone knows what they look like:<br>
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NEITHER OF YOUR SUPERHEROES HAVE POWERS OF FLIGHT, you guys.<br>
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And then my parents and my sister and her husband and kids came out, and we met up with my in-laws and THEIR kids and some other kids and it was just a HORDE OF CHILDREN LOOK AT THEMMMMM<br>
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We went for like an hour? And everyone else was done and we dropped my sister and her entourage off at our house to get their car and things<br>
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but these girls of my heart <i>were not done</i> and it was so balmy and dry and they were being so hilarious and delightful that we kept going.<br>
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We went for ANOTHER hour, and by the time we got back, our cauldron, which we had left on our stoop (as is the custom in these parts) was empty.<br>
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I let them stay up until the cauldron was empty again<br>
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PEOPLE ACTUALLY WEAR THESE T-REX COSTUMES IT IS INCREDIBLE<br>
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And the girls 'did lines' in the breaks between treaters<br>
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and finally the cauldron was empty and everyone went to bed.<br>
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EVERYBODY.<br>
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Paint that vampire, Geneva.<br>
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DECORATIONS. I thought this guy might be just on the other side of the horrifying line but the girls looooove him. Geneva calls him 'Mr Peek-a-boo' and spends every breakfast exasperated with him. 'Mr Peek-a-boo keeps trying to play peek-a-boo with me but I need to be eating my food.'<br>
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Geneva's first day of preschool, she ACTUALLY NAPPED so Eleanor and I had a chance to build this foam house. We <i><a href="https://iwillreachforalime.blogspot.ca/2016/11/octoberecap.html">learned from last year</a></i> and just brought out the glue gun straight away.<br>
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Got a bone snake for the stairs; both girls make a point of screaming at him whenever we walk past, even if we are mid-conversation.<br>
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My new house is amazing, there're just way more places to put stuff like a disembodied hand.<br>
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This marvelous beastie finally went on sale enough for me to spring for him.<br>
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This pensive sir is also new, but he is from the dollar store.<br>
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We got an 'Is It Too Early For Halloween' donut from the cafe one pro-d day and I was like, Sirs it is the 20th, you know it's not.<br>
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Made black death waffles again. It's like, how much more black could they be? (I feel like maybe a little more black. Catch me next year.)<br>
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Eleanor has been asking to 'make a potion' and been drawing up lists of potion ingredients and tools she would need so one day I just...gave them some kitchen junk and let them make potions.<br>
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We made some skeleton pretzels. Literally all I had to do was melt the chocolate and put it in the bag.<br>
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LOOK HOW HORRIFIED THEY ARE AT THEIR EVENTUAL FATE they were delicious.<br>
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We did a dry run of the costumes today and they look <i>so good</i> I am so excited tomorrow is gonna be so good.raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-42111079909615008472017-10-18T20:36:00.002-07:002017-10-18T20:36:39.695-07:00I'm a free womanThis little yam fry is in preschool now.<br />
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We had signed her up for the preschool on the same campus as Eleanor's elementary school, and I was like SUUUUUPER one stop drop-off this is going to me amazing, but then some legislation re class sizes was passed and all the preschools that were in elementary schools lost their spots because the elementary schools needed the space for their extra classes and I am ALL FOR smaller class sizes but like this legislation was passed last fall and the preschools got the word they were being kicked out IN MAY and omg the panic.<br />
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The teachers from the school we had registered for started up their own preschool above our local sushi place, but it required extensive renovations and we weren't sure it was going to be done in time for fall and it they only just finished inspections two weeks ago but HERE WE ARE and this gave me a chance to get Eleanor settled in kindergarten before launching Geneva off on her own.<br />
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Shut up with that face, you love it.<br />
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She's so excited to have a teacher and wear a backpack and bring a snack, she thinks she's so big. *I* am so excited to have six hours a week to my own self. SO BIG INDEED! But also, still so little.<br />
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<br />raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-75855414708389099122017-10-02T21:04:00.002-07:002017-10-02T21:05:44.223-07:00Busy birdsWell! Hello! Time is flying by. That first week of school was a <i>doozy</i>, and things continue apace. I'm trying this new thing where I put my kids in all the activities they requested (jk Eleanor also wants to be in martial arts and tap dance but I have limits) and then I can pull them out of stuff if we can't hang but so far it's been pretty great! Joel is working a ton, so it's nice to have like a dance class or something to go to some evenings. Geneva's dance class is in the morning while Eleanor is at school<br>
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Both of the squirrels are in soccer<br>
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Eleanor's back at gymnastics<br>
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and Geneva is taking swimming lessons this month because preschool doesn't start until later (IF AT ALL that is a whole saga into which I will not enter here).<br>
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And then there is school. Eleanor is at school EVERY DAY and I LOVE IT because she is a lot of person. So we get breaks from each other and then I like her so much more in the afternoon and she has a lot to tell me about chlorophyll. Geneva is a pretty chill dude when she gets to be lady of the manor, so she and I are enjoying our few months of solitude before I have this baby. Which isn't to say she doesn't MISS ELEANOR.<br>
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This happens literally every day.<br>
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'Geneva! I'm so glad you're here!'<br>
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No end in sight for this.<br>
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And sometimes Eleanor let's Geneva carry her backpack home.<br>
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Make ice cream<br />
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Eat ice cream that we did not ourselves make (I feel like we kind of biffed on this one; we only went to Coneheads TWICE and Geneva wasn't even along that second time, and we never made it to Birchwood Dairy or to that Moose place out in Yarrow that I had a coupon for, BUT at least we had Josie (!) with us for our Coneheads run)<br />
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Go to the lake so, so much<br />
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Go to the splash park so so much<br />
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Rent a canoe<br />
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Eat breakfast on the deck every day for like WEEKS<br />
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Pick all the fruits:<br />
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strawberries<br />
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blueberries<br />
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DID NOT PICK BLACKBERRIES what is wrong with us they are FREE<br />
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And THEN I was like, I'm gonna make a good dessert out of each summer fruit, but aside from some baller peach fritters I made one day, and a few peach pies I threw in my freezer, and one black-and-blueberry pie I made out of last year's freezer leavings, I miffed this one too!<br />
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Anyhoo. Now it is fall. Time to go jump in some leaves.<br />
<br />raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-24534369256910140532017-09-22T13:42:00.000-07:002017-09-28T13:43:04.285-07:00Apple harvestWe went apple picking! Our apple orchard of choice had a massive barn fire recently, so I justify all the pumpkins I bought as like a charitable donation to their rebuild project.<br />
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('These are all our favorite tiny pumpkins!)<br />
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You guys are my favorite tiny pumpkins.<br />
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The barn fire didn't affect the (baby!) goats.<br />
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Queens of the world over here.<br />
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The ones you eat in the orchard are free.<br />
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Geneva ate two, because she is frugal.<br />
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Get taller, Eleanor.<br />
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'Take a picture of us with our favorite squashes!'<br />
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Fall fall fall.raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-89727262677136932622017-09-09T07:38:00.003-07:002017-09-09T07:42:09.448-07:00SchoolchildOh help, baby Eleanor is off to kindergarten.<br>
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(I mean, <i>eventually</i>. This gradual entry business is going to kill me and I don't know how working parents do it because Geneva had swim lessons from 9:30-10 and then Eleanor had school from 10:30 to 12 and those don't even overlap but I was still like HOW WILL I LIVE.)<br>
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Anyway. She picked her first-day outfit, and refused to wear her new boots to her teacher meeting yesterday because she wanted them CLEAN for her first actual day, the one where I take a picture.<br>
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'Take a picture of my cool backpack, and my braid.'<br>
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'Come be in my picture with me, Geneva!'<br>
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You scamp.<br>
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She is v v v excited, but also sad that she won't see me all day, every day anymore. Basically sad that she can't live two lives.<br>
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We dropped her off, and then Geneva and I trudged home in the rain (suddenly it is fall!) and then I tucked her bones in with some books and just, like, puttered for an hour, we had some tea, and then it was time to go back.<br>
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It has literally been 90 minutes, you jokers.<br>
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Ok.<br>
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This is gonna be be a big year for us all.<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuPZJubmos4FsT-z7IQh0FD2w8HDepM41gxJOg-K3x7tMFdhsHsqhvyLXMcAPm_5RDWxHQtQGq-nx7O_Me9afvP1XiyMaNgBYSlbBqjgsBJtmDMvTOMjwyXh8jm128rtexQMLqoQ/s640/blogger-image-1860084527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuPZJubmos4FsT-z7IQh0FD2w8HDepM41gxJOg-K3x7tMFdhsHsqhvyLXMcAPm_5RDWxHQtQGq-nx7O_Me9afvP1XiyMaNgBYSlbBqjgsBJtmDMvTOMjwyXh8jm128rtexQMLqoQ/s640/blogger-image-1860084527.jpg"></a></div><br></div>raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-65304236239391337352017-09-02T20:25:00.000-07:002017-09-12T20:25:25.087-07:00We ran 5KWell. We WALKED 5k. Geneva rode on my back for at least half of 5k.<br />
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But the REST of these jokers.<br />
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JOKERS.<br />
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You guys are so cool.<br />
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A little bit of yellow.<br />
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A little bit of bubbles.<br />
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A little bit of pink.<br />
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A little bit of extra purple here at the end.<br />
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MOAR YELLOW THO<br />
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THE MEDALS HAVE UNICORNS ON THEM.<br />
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You guys are a WRECK.<br />
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Look at all these filthy persons.<br />
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Get you some of that free soda water, Geneva.<br />
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raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-60603051004628696562017-08-29T20:38:00.000-07:002017-09-07T20:38:55.608-07:00We are becoming mountain peopleEvery time we get to the lake in the evening, I'm like, The rest of my day up until now has been a waste.<br />
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And we went to Dinotown this morning!<br />
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And it was amazing!<br />
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But, like...the lake.<br />
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<br />raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-76090027112905128622017-08-28T16:18:00.000-07:002017-08-28T16:18:00.045-07:00Vancouver DaysJoel and I carved out a day for ourselves a few weekends ago, dropped the kids off with my parents, and then drove into the city and straight to Tacofino.<br />
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TACOOOOOOOOS.<br />
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Then we rented bikes and biked around the seawall, which never gets less beautiful.<br />
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And it's blackberry season!<br />
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Thence to Granville Island for a walkaround and some donuts<br />
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And <i>thence</i> to the Richmond Night Market for a rotato<br />
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some Phnom Penh wings<br />
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some Super Good Cup Chicken<br />
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a Bao Bun (a fried bun with a slab of ice cream wedged inside)<br />
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before picking up our hooligan children. Summertiiiiiiiiiiime!<br />
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<br />raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-21938389345376788412017-08-26T20:29:00.000-07:002017-09-07T20:29:25.013-07:00Garrison FestivalWe LIVE in Garrison now! So the festival is, like, in our backyard. It feels so luxurious, after a year of driving to <i>literally everything</i>, to be able to walk like 500 feet to a festival.<br />
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We ran into the girls' gymnastics coach, who had set up a booth and was giving out ribbons.<br />
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We did a kicking-and-punching mini lesson.<br />
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WE MET MOANA AND ARIEL. (Moana remembered the girls from the Chilliwack festival, because we were there on a day when no one else was there so I let them just like chat with her for ENDLESS minutes.)<br />
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We got pizza.<br />
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There was a bunny?<br />
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We got balloons.<br />
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Still worth it all.raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-44462496278220510832017-08-21T14:51:00.000-07:002017-08-21T14:51:06.657-07:00Chilliwack FairThe Chilliwack Fair is smaller, and closer, and parking is more straightforward, so AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT I was solo that day. Just me and these kids AND MOANA.<br />
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Also Belle.<br />
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Did a karate demo.<br />
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Petted a chicken.<br />
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GOT SOME FACE PAINT<br />
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Petted a more different chicken (there are many varieties of chicken!).<br />
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Talked to a llama.<br />
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Watched some dancing, spent way more than our fair share of time in a bounce house because there was nobody in line, waited forevvvvver for the pig races (which I hate, but the kids love), ate some terrible pizza, and then got ourselves this marvelous confection to go out on.<br />
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<br />raychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25570732.post-88742099367974980012017-08-20T14:40:00.001-07:002017-08-20T14:40:28.842-07:00AgrifairJoel has maybe half a day off a week these days, so we usually try to make A Thing of it.<br />
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Luckily, we got all these agricultural fairs to go to! The Agrifair is the bigger one, and it involves DRIVING there and finding PARKING and ugh I just can't, so I'm super glad Joel was around for this. Had to fake-milk this cow!<br />
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Pet this goat!<br />
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Putt this putt!<br />
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Eat this butter chicken poutine!<br />
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Eeeeeeat it.<br />
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Jump in this pit of foam blocks!<br />
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Hang from this bar!<br />
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Go on this teensy ride!<br />
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ZOOOOM.<br />
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Eat this funnel cake topped with ice cream!<br />
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat it.<br />
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