Jaia rarely sits for me to take her picture. Not without her putting up a fight then pouting or making a face at me in more than 3/4 of the ones I take. But today, when she was cruising around in her Snow White dress, she happily offered to LET me take her picture. And...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Posted in Jaia, Random
My distaste for winter has not been well hidden this year. I’ve talked about it a lot. But, in my defence, it’s been going on a looooong time. Didn’t it start snowing in November? I feel like I’m just done wrapping up in warm coats and hats and mitts and fighting the cold. We get...
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Namely, the Warm Fuzzy Jar. That’s what we’ve instituted in our house and it works like a charm. Jaia is a good kid. A really good kid. And I’m not just saying that on the blog to make people believe it. She really is. Our naughty stool went virtually unused for months on end because...
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Overheard after dinner tonight: “Daddy, will you be mine forever?” Cutest. Ever.
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And that’s what he was, a friend. To everyone. And today, after 16 years, he passed away. When I started university I got the crazy idea to get a puppy. Not the best plan for a university student, but at the time was still living at home and after having lost a puppy in someone...
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Hello. This is Mark. You might rememember me from a few years ago when I wrote some silly posts about terrible commercials and a guy who tried to jump over the St Lawrence river in a winged car. Some posts have been devoured into the mysterious nether-regions of wordpress, while some are still around for your...
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There was a snow storm in Virginia almost 2 weeks ago. It crippled the area. Businesses were closed for a week, and without a plough to take away the wall of snow on the streets for 3-4 days, everyone was snowed in. And I mean, no way to leave your house snowed in. The Federal...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Posted in Jaia, Random
WordPress has been awesome. We started using it years ago and have no regrets. Well, except one. We’ve lost some posts. Or WordPress lost them. Annoyed, yes. But there’s nothing we can do about it, so I’ve moved on with fingers crossed that we lose no more. All this to say that WordPress is telling...
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I spent the day with an absolutely beautiful little guy today. He is 9 days old and he melted my heart. Jaia’s too. Not surprisingly, she took every opportunity to gaze at him and rub his tummy or hold his hand. It was my very first newborn photoshoot. And it went amazingly well, except that...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Posted in Jaia
Barack Obama is left-handed. Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed. M.C. Escher was left-handed. Matt Groening is left-handed. Queen Victoria was left-handed. Jimi Hendrix was left-handed. And so is Jaia. Not a bad crew to be hanging with though. What’s more, a large percentage of history’s creative geniuses were/are left-handed. Go Jaia! It’s not something...
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