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Extended Family Activities

My nephew is here…

by ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ on December 31, 2009

We picked him up from the Big O on Tuesday.  He wasn’t at all about "are we there yet?" in the car.  It was more like — we’re on the way!!!

 He’s ten.  TEN.  Yup.
Yesterday we went to the Build-A-Bear Workshop.  He made a bear.  I made an owl.  He turned his into Darth Maul bear [...]

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… and now my Dad has a crush on The Bloggess …

by ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ on December 19, 2009

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My annual photo of Dad smoking a cigarette at his kitchen table…

by ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ on December 14, 2009

The visit was nice and quiet.  My dad was especially pleased with his Charlie Brown Xmas tree:

But he really enjoyed watching my first movie:

He’s an even bigger Pink Floyd fan than I am — being that he introduced me to Pink Floyd when I was a child.  And after watching this I let him mess [...]

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Sometimes I really miss my Mom…

by ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ on November 25, 2009

Like I did today.  I heard an old Joni Mitchell song and it made me think of my Mom.
And I missed her.
I don’t know why a Joni Mitchell song would bring such a strong feeling of my Mom to the surface.  She didn’t even listen to Joni Mitchell.
It was Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris [...]

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Sometimes the village gets annoyed…

by ɹǝƃƃolquǝʞoʇ on May 5, 2009

Last week and this week have not been one of my best weeks ever.  In fact, a lot of it just sucked.
First there was the migraine, brought on by who knows what because I am not harvesting the damn things.  I promise!
Wait.  Maybe the week began the week before…
My dad had called me to tell [...]

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