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I’m Dreaming of a Green Christmas

On: November 28th, 2007 at 5:04 pm | Number of Comments » 1

People seem to be becoming more aware of their ecological foot print and that makes me really happy. I love hearing about earth friendly choices that people are making and it eases my anxiety about the fate of our planet.
This year we are celebrating Christmas, or the Winter Solstice, or whatever [...]


Elf Yourself!

On: November 21st, 2007 at 3:26 pm | Number of Comments » 1

Elf Yourself!
Check it out, me and Owen elfed ourselves today. We had to add cousin Lyric in there too, Owen insisted. When Elf Owen talks he’s saying “happy christmas”. We couldn’t quite get a “merry” out of him.


A conversation between father and son

On: November 20th, 2007 at 12:58 am | Number of Comments » 0

James was crawling around on his knees with Owen riding on his back. They stopped at the framed foot prints of Owen’s feet that were done at the hospital the day he was born. Their conversation went like this;
Daddy: Who’s feet prints are these?
Owen: Owen! Daddy hold.
Daddy: Yes, Daddy [...]


Why can’t mom’s do yoga?

On: November 7th, 2007 at 4:35 pm | Number of Comments » 0

Watch the video here.


NaBloPoMo

On: November 3rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm | Number of Comments » 0

It’s National Blog Posting Month! Which of course was inspired by National Novel Writing Month. In order to participate in NaBloPoMo, you basicaly just have to write one blog entry for each day in November. I don’t think I’ll be participating here on Mama Blogess, however, I now write for another blog [...]


Money, housing, and happiness

On: November 2nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm | Number of Comments » 0

We decided to do a quick sell of our home.
We have lost about 50,000 dollars of value in the last two months. We are now “upside down”, meaning we owe more on our house then it is worth. This would not be so bad, and normally we would just stick it out [...]


Tie Dying

On: November 1st, 2007 at 8:05 pm | Number of Comments » 0

I keep forgeting to post these pictures. A few months ago I tie dyed some of Owen’s T-shirts, and one that I bought for Lyric. I think they turned out pretty good. Some I like better than others. I think I’m going to do it again and maybe try to sell [...]