The girls are off of school during a much deserved break.  As with every other break, this has been met with a first day of busy activity then, “We’re bored.”
“Want to go to the pool?”
“No.  Did that.”
“Want to ride bikes?”
“No.  Did that.”
“Want to play outside?”
“No.  Did that.”
“Want to watch TV?”
“No.  Did that.”
“Want to go [...]

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The summer battles have begun…S vs. K, S vs. Ms. W, S vs. the world.
And it’s only the second day of break.

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Last night I went to the sports store and bought a few “real” target arrows, as opposed to the clunky arrows that came with S’s set. Today I was able to hit the target about 90% of the time (without glasses.)  Of course, where I was happy to just hit the target, S scored [...]

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S asked for an archery set this year. As I find it’s important that such skills are learned (seriously, archery is good for learning about aim, windage and such,) Santa did bring her a beginner’s set. This isn’t like the sets I saw when growing up, though. For one thing, it’s a compound bow [...]

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My baby has her first band concert tonight. She embarks upon her voyage into the society of “Band Geeks.”
Granted, today is the first day I can remember in a while that she’s actually practiced outside of the band room. But I can’t really talk, I’m not the best at finding the time to pick [...]

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For weeks (months, really) I’ve been concerned that the school district’s lunch money system has either been taking too much out of S’s account, or someone else had her lunch number and was eating on my dime.  Seriously, how quickly can a skinny kid go through 60+ bucks worth of school lunches…even if she [...]

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HOLY CRAP!

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S went to see the Hurricane’s tonight (to see them beat Toronto 6-4.) This was her first foray into pro-level sports and pro-level sports fans.  She LOVED it! (Yay! Finally a reason to go to a couple myself!)
It is funny, though, listening to her talk about tonight’s match-up.  “Do you know they smash each [...]

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I had hoped to blog a little from the gig today, but I couldn’t get a reliable connection to the intertubes. It’s all done, and I had a blast. There should be pictures, and maybe video to follow. If I go back through and find last year’s post about the gig, I could probably [...]

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As far as birthdays go, this was one of the easiest for me.  S only invited two kids over.  The plan was to meet at our house mid-Saturday afternoon to play, nosh, watch TV, whatever until dinner. We took everyone out for dinner and then back home for cheesecake.  Then the kids were going [...]

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