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Reigning it in: December 2010
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Sunday, December 26, 2010. Our tradition is that we go to church on Christmas eve and then the kids get to open one present. And now we have an added tradition of having a fire. Wella was in her finest duds for the Christmas Eve service. And when the kids were opening their gifts we never let her play with plastic bags. Never. Cuz that wouldn't be safe. Claire got a playmobil animal clinic and Sam got a Leggo fire boat. This was the Year of the Leggo at our house. Leggos take lots of assembling. Wella ge...
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Reigning it in: February 2012
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Thursday, February 16, 2012. My life right now, according to the pictures on my camera. Valentines Day party at my house for our home school. These cookies were brought by Nicky and her girls! Bridget sent Dunkin Donuts with Annabel! Fussing about being done with playing in the water and now wanting more attention. Field trip to the Oriental Institute at University of Chicago. Making grandma's homemade soft pretzels. Not as hard as I thought it would be. Wella sporting a pony tail. Posted by chicago mom.
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Reigning it in: January 2011
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Friday, January 14, 2011. Aunt Katie has promised to send me the rest of the pictures from our trip, but she's busy wedding planning so it might be this weekend. That's okay Aunt Katie. We still love you! Now go sample cupcakes! Wella's favorite past time is in the kitchen sink. She loves water! Rolls and rolls of chub. We get her naked way too often to look at all of the chubs. I took a leap and switched the master bedroom with Sammy's bedroom. Matt and I just never go into our room until we're goin...
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Reigning it in: October 2012
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Friday, October 26, 2012. A catch up post - Summer 2012. SoI'm a little behind. Summer flew by and now we have an additional person in our family! But this is our summer in one big long post. Enjoy. Mario's Italian Lemonade. Matt's Dad retired after many years teaching and coaching at Glenbrook South High School. 31st street beach got a new playground! We did a little gardening. And grew our first corn! Backyard.what there is of it. Sam doing a little bmx-ing, and skateboarding, and scooter-ing. City Ki...
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Reigning it in: July 2011
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Family Camp with the Handies. Too much to say about family camp. We shared a cabin with Julia and Joel Handy and their three boys. Well, we each had our own side to the cabin and it was connected in the middle by a common area. Needless to say, a fun time was had by all. And the strawberry patch we hit on the way home was fun too. It made Wella very messy and Sam wouldn't pick any strawberries and had to go potty 5 minutes into it, but whatever! We still managed to pick 10 lbs!
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Reigning it in: I'm back...sorta
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013. We did fine this last year. We scraped through. We did a lot of worksheets (blech) and tried to throw in a few interesting things when we could. Luckily, a nice boy moved in down the street for Sam to play with so he had a friend and we didn't kill him for driving us nuts. Honestly, not much more happened. I still feel like we should be homeschooling (although I had my doubts last year when I was shouting "Just put on another Dora for her and get back here to finish your math!
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Reigning it in: February 2011
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Saturday, February 26, 2011. Claire is sick now. So is Wella.Last night was really bad. Fevers of almost 103 for both girls. Sammy finally got better from both the stomach bug and the cold/virus thing, but now his sisters have the congestion/sore throat/fever thing. So I am STILL hanging out at home most of the time. No cabin fever. Not for me. I'm cool. Well, I'm basically fine with it. Except that since Sammy isn't sick anymore he's. I mean, that is, if we just bought the $300 sewing machine. If you do...
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Reigning it in: March 2011
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Sunday, March 20, 2011. Big Guy turns 31. Matt's birthday was on St Patrick's day. It always is, of course, so we always make him green pancakes for breakfast. This year the kids served him his breakfast wearing the ties we got him for a present. So, it was an epic day. Cleaning it with me actually wore Samuel out which I didn't think could happen. He kept saying to me: "can't I even get a REST! ANY kind of REST! So then the big guy put on his new greenish tie (for St Patty's day) and went to work. Then,...
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Reigning it in: March 2012
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Sunday, March 18, 2012. Grammy and Grandad visit. My parents came from Kansas on the night of Matt's birthday to visit for a few days. It was great and the weather was beautiful. We went downtown to walk in the park and eat hot dogs on one of the days. Luella became a crazy pigeon-chaser. And Grandad taught Claire the finer points of eatting a Chicago-dog. 1: Must be bought from a street vendor. 2 Get everything on it. Ketchup is for hamburgers. Posted by chicago mom. Links to this post. But then the pan...
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Reigning it in: January 2012
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Saturday, January 14, 2012. House decisions for the new year. So last year, about this time, we moved our selves into the tiny room and moved Sam with all his junk into the master bedroom. I thought it would help keep his toys upstairs and we didn't really need all the space, but then a few things happened:. 1) We moved Claire into the big room WITH Sam because Luella became incapable of sleeping with other people in the room, and then. 2) We moved Luella into the tiny room. Picture via The Bumper Crop.
