Category: it’s all relative
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with my sister shopping for baby supplies and furniture, i can't help but add my two cents worth and enjoy spending some time online researching the latest baby goods…my favorite, the highchair that isn't a highchair from Stokke, a company in Norway that also makes the coolest crib and a kickass stroller….and then there's Lindam's…
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first camera phones, now mobile blogging (here's Tom's)….pretty soon we'll all have hat-coptors like Inspector Gadget…. it's starting to make me feel old, not being able to keep up with the technology. there was no doubt i was feeling my age the other day when i found a group of loitering french teenagers intimidating—i think…
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Baby Mikkelsen-Faulkner 14 weeks, 6 days my sister Peg is pregnant! she's due November 20th—bets are on that the baby will be born on my brother's birthday, November 27th. this is really, really happy news. Peg and Ryan are moving soon to a more hospitable London neighborhood, she's got a great new job and now…
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in the Comune Libre du Safranier neighborhood on our walk yesterday Mom's back! and she got so tan and skinny! nothing like the "Sailboat Diet"…Bert is bringing the boat back from Italy, Mom took the train….and she may take it back again to Italy, she fell in love with both the coast and Tuscany….
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Mom bellydancing in Door County, action series, the white-fro years (the "pat" labels were my dad's doing–i'm not the only one with a label-maker problem.) my brother Thomas asked me for photos of Mom in her bellydancing years…considering the content (addicting!) of his workplace's blog i'm a tad concerned…..mom, forgive me. update: i can't believe…
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Bert in his lounge chair Mom called today—caught me napping—she and Bert have been in Genoa for a few days, waylaid by weather but happy to have a big new city to explore–they've spent time in museums and churches and a few cozy nights in a hotel. the weather has been an issue—storms have been…
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i'm not the only one that was thrown by mom's announcement that she and Bert (aboard Tishie Mae) were in "Andorra"…i even asked her to spell it for me, that's what she gave me i swear. i KNOW they were in a small harbor town on the Italian coast just across the border…i wonder does…
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mom called tonight—she and Bert are in Andorra, a town in Italy just 50 miles away–they've had to stay there a few days to repair a problem with the rudder, but already mom is love with Italy–a few quotes: "The woman are fat!!" "They've got boobs and hips!" "The kids make noise and the moms…
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Mom and Bert depart after months of preparation and a week of waiting out the weather they're off! Mom and Uncle Bert left this morning for the big adventure down the Italian coast. Tishie Mae will be put to the test, as will the limits of siblinghood i'm certain. they will both be missed–what will…
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Ryan's been here all of three days and already Mom has managed to tell him that he's fat, he smells funny and he sleeps too much. wee! gee, wonder where i get my own saying-what-i-think-out-loud fault from?
girl at large 