Because I saw this on Jib Jab and thought I’d have some fun. Just think Troy and Gabriella some odd 25 years later…scary isn’t it? Scarier still is that Ken was the Captain of the basketball team a la Troy and I was, well, the Academic Geek Girl with AP Physics and AP Calculus…so there […]

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Another season of soccer has begun for Alex. For those of you keeping score, this is his fifth year of soccer. And he’s on a different league this season. A much more serious league with actual jerseys and referees and everything. He loves it. And he’s playing better than ever before. See him? He’s number […]

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Bella is officially All Grown Up now. She goes to preschool and she gets her very own extracurricular activities. Here she is in her ballet class. Same instructor as Kata, the effervescent but tough, Ms. Diane. We (heart) her. I know I’ve said this before but it bears repeating. Life lessons can easily be learned […]

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On Saturday we went to the Great Reno Balloon Race. It was our fourth one and as in the three preceding ones, we made Dawn Patrol which is basically five balloons testing the waters, if you will, of the air currents. For us it means a frighteningly early wake up time, 4:(bloody)30. As in the […]

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On Thursday, Ken and I celebrated a milestone – fifteen years of marriage. Before we take our bows and accept congratulations, I have to admit that fifteen years ago, had I known how the journey we would go on, I would have been stressed out of my mind. It was bad enough that in perfect […]

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Well, the last Launch Into School occurred yesterday. And it was the one I feared the most. You see, normally, I would’ve spent some time taking a child to a “practice session” prior to their first day of preschool. A practice session for those of you not familiar with the process is when both parent […]

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