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Samantha has an ear infection. But she has tubes, you say? Yes well, tubes don’t eliminate ear infections, just hopefully make them much less frequent. She got tubes in May 2009, so I think we’ve had a pretty good run. Samantha and Brian got sick a couple of weeks ago with a bad cold. It was a doozie. However, after …
Read more →Samantha has always been a good eater. I really don’t have a reference for this, but she always eats what we eat, so I figure that’s pretty good. She loves peas or beans. To be even more specific, butter peas are her favorite. I never knew what these were until I married Brian, so go figure. I have always hated peas …
Read more →Why is the University of Colorado known as CU and not UC or U of C? The same applies at Kansas-KU, Missouri-MU, Nebraska-NU, Oklahoma-OU and Denver-DU. “Midwestern casualness,” says former CU historian Fred Casotti. It has always been this way at Colorado, for whatever reason, and at the other five listed above-but …
Read more →The Consumer Product Safety Commission released recalls this morning on strollers and cribs. Here’s the recall page from the CPSC. Here’s the stroller recall. And here’s the crib recall.
Read more →Okay, I forgot (okay, well, I was putting it off) to set up redirects for links pointing to stuff on the old website to stuff on our new site. This meant that your RSS reader never saw any updates for us since December 29. Now those old RSS feed URLs should permanently redirect you to the new RSS feeds. Similarly, …
Read more →Those of you who have known me for a while know that I love me some rain gear. I was even known as “the yellow boot girl” in high school. That is not really an experience that I want to relive (nothing like high school public humiliation). However, I still have my knee-high bright yellow boots and will wear them again …
Read more →Some of you may know that we put up our Christmas decorations late, according to today’s standard, but also take them down late. We wait until the Epiphany, or the 12th day of Christmas to take everything down. It falls on January 6. This year, we took down our Christmas stuff last weekend. Both Brian and I took down …
Read more →Sometimes, Samantha wakes up from her nap and her hair is just so adorable that I have to take a picture.
Read more →I finished the curtains in the living room. I did the window first. I thought it would be easier. The instructions I had were for 3 triangles in one window, and I just wanted 1 triangle. They also instructed me to mount on a board (like a cornice I’m guessing) but I wanted to use a standard rod. So, that meant I …
Read more →I feel like everyone has moved beyond Christmas. I am running a little behind, so I’m just getting around to posting our Christmas pictures. Christmas started with brunch at the Betbezes on Christmas Eve. I really like this tradition. We enjoyed brunch then the kids began opening presents. Samantha got lots of great …
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