I’m not banning anything this year, but after a conversation with my friend Monique on New Year’s Eve, I realized there are a few things I’d like to do in 2009.
In no particular order, here we go:
Read Moby Dick
I’ve got a bit of a 19th century whaling fetish, I’ve done the museums, read many books, [...]

The week between Christmas and New Years has always seemed like a bonus week to me - a gift when no-one expects business to get done, when you actually have the time to clean up your home a bit more (me? I cleaned the dish drying rack) and ideally tackle a project or two.
While I [...]

I spent far too much time this year playing in Photoshop. Much of it was inspired by the wonderful video series, “You Suck at Photoshop” Then I stumbled into the weird world of digital scrapbooking and just had to see what I could come up with.
So I present for you, our family [...]

I completely understand the furor over the selection of an anti-gay, pro-life minister for an inaugural speaker. But in the world of pragmatic politics, I’m going to let that slide if is a peace offering to distract Christian conservatives from causing a ruckus over the repeal of abstinence only education, which I heard was [...]

Last year, we asked our children if they really needed the traditional thanksgiving dinner. YES they screamed, we want turkey “with all the trimmings”. We reminded them that their school would be serving a full Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday, did we really need to do it all again on Thursday? YES they screamed. [...]

Fall Folliage II

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Hope you can enjoy this long weekend.

Alex Creates A Card

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You got to love a son who makes his own birthday party invitations. Do you see the circle? That’s the cake, and the sticks with orange dots are candles. Very nice, no?
Alex has become obsessed with Domo - do you know Domo?

Extreme Knitting

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Yurt - a round, Mongolian tent.
Yurting - Removing one’s family to a yurt for a weekend of family time.
A couple of weekends ago, we headed off to the Adirondacks for a weekend of yurting. I will freely admit that this was all my idea, and I imposed this on my [...]

stationary

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Spent the morning at the Dalton Community Center’s stationary sale. Bought all of this for $6.00 and spent the next 3 hours matching cards to envelopes, counting off sets and wrapping with ribbon.
Christmas may come now, teacher presents are bought.

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