Today would have been my brother Jim’s birthday. This is the fourth year without him. He was my next-youngest sibling, the one closest to me in age, and I have many memories of our years together growing up. I was old enough to remember a little of how we waited in the hospital during his […]
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Wish you were here
November 29th, 2003 · 5 Comments
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Daddy’s Home….
November 21st, 2003 · Comments Off on Daddy’s Home….
and we’re happy! Here’s a picture Abigail made while Ted was away, titled “Daddy with Scratchies ” (note the chin!). I think Ted should replace his portrait on his blog with this one, don’t you? Yeah, Daddy’s home, the laptop and digital camera are back and I actually cooked something from scratch with meat for […]
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Ice time for our family
November 2nd, 2003 · Comments Off on Ice time for our family
Today was another skating Sunday but instead of just watching people zoom around on the ice (at Skate America, today’s broadcast), we went to the rink ourselves, making our first trip (45 minutes on the freeway down the peninsula) to the Bremerton Ice Arena . Ted took turns teaching Abigail and Michaela while I stayed […]
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Are you a Geek Family?
November 1st, 2003 · Comments Off on Are you a Geek Family?
Recently I posted about the “Are you a Geek?” quiz. I suppose the next one would be “Are you a Geek Family?” Tonight the girls were exclaiming over Ted’s gifts to them: journals he was discarding. “Dr. Dobb’s,” Abigail read, and soon Michaela was saying it too. When your three year old is shouting with […]
Skating Sundays
October 21st, 2003 · 2 Comments
It’s rare for our family to all sit down and watch television. We don’t really have a TV, but we can access it via Ted’s computer, with a big antenna on the floor of his office. It’s not ideal but it works, at least most of the time. Why do we watch TV as a […]
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