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Team Sports
Loren offers Ruthie a lesson in how to roll the soccer ball. I wrote about youth sports in a previous hypothetical parenting post. I still don’t know what we’ll do on that front, and thankfully we...
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Spring Fever Cured
I don’t really understand what just happened. We left for Camp Davis on Friday, filled with Spring fever – having recently potted plants around the apartment and eaten dinner on the balcony… …only to...
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Egg Carton Gardening
Maybe Spring is a bit fickle right now. Maybe, after all these years, I’m still coming to grips with how the four seasons teasingly play out in the mid-Atlantic region. April is just around the...
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Labor Day Weekend Recap
We stuck around DC this past weekend and despite our best efforts managed to pack it full of noteworthy events, including trips to see a free children’s play at the Kennedy Center (highly recommend,...
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Checking In On The Camp Davis Renovations
It’s been over a year since the Derecho and almost a year since the truck, but this Saturday morning, Nat and I dropped the kids with Grannie so that we could make a day-trip to Camp Davis to see the...
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Knock, Knock, Who’s There?
Loren’s three today! And if I’ve learned anything from him the last few weeks, it’s that the above counts as an excellent knock-knock joke punch-line, regardless of the setup. But yes, Loren turned...
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Almost Kevin
I went grocery shopping with the kids the other afternoon. As we walked down the freezer isle I pointed to the cases filled with frozen vegetables of every stripe. Loren’s snack of choice for the...
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Odd Jobs
As regular readers have surely noticed, I’ve fallen out of my two-year old posting rhythm lately, often neglecting to post for weeks on end. It sucks, I really miss the writing and sharing, but it...
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This is (Almost) Our Time, Mikey, Our Time
We made another trip to Camp Davis this past Sunday to check in on the contractor’s progress and it looks like they are nearly finished their side of the renovations. Drywall is up, floors are down....
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Wallops Island I Cant Stop Loving You
There was a big shuttle launch out of the NASA station at Wallop’s Island tonight that should have been visible from many hundreds of miles away. We didn’t see it from our balcony (since we were too...
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Take One, Take Two
IMG_7748: IMG_7749: Those are the default titles my camera gave these two photos, which were taken in succession. IMG_7748 and IMG_7749. One moment all is harmony. The next…less so. Awkward Family...
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Minor Adjustments
Loren and Ruthie color together. It’s not the most eventful video I’ve taken, but it somehow manages to capture a lot. Underneath every interaction lies that hint of sibling tension. Ruthie just trying...
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As Is
We moved.* We enjoyed the holidays. We ran away for a week to a seriously, unbelievably improved Camp Davis. And now we’re back. Natalie heads to work tomorrow. The kids and I go back to doing...
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Floors, At Last
As I mentioned previously, we are finally back on track at Camp Davis. With the structural rebuild complete, the biggest sticking point left was the floors. We had the contractors install unfinished...
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The Slow Death of Cool
“Oh man. We are so uncool.” That was Natalie’s first comment after we got home from an objectively* cool night on the town, sans kids, to celebrate our eight years of marriage. Although she...
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On Island Time
We’ve got more progress to report from the front lines of the Camp Davis renovation project. This time it’s cabinetry. And an island – a huge one. After a few weeks of using the courtyard as a...
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Drying Out
I really thought the deconstruction of Camp Davis was finally behind us. We lost power. We lost appliances. Our structural integrity was compromised. My manhood sense of security was called into...
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I Challenge You to a Duel…
I turned 31 a few weeks ago. Though I received awesome pampering (waking up to a candle in a glazed Boston cream doughnut along side a coffee was heaven), I still dealt with the typical trials a...
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Wanna Ride Bikes?
I bought a bike this past weekend. It’s blue. I also bought a kids trailer for the bike, so I can actually go for bike rides every once in a while without having to burn any precious “me time.”...
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