Category: it’s all relative
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"Mom, it's spelled V-I-V-I-E-N-N-E. Vivienne." "Vivine?" "No, Vivienne. Think of the French spelling". "Vivenne?" "No, Vivienne. V-i-v-i, then e-n-n-e". "Oh, just email it to me".
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1) Yes, I am. 2) About 5 weeks. The due date is October 6th. 3) Yes, we were trying. (But our quick success is a surprise!) 4) Yes, we are getting married. He asked me in the kitchen, with his coat on, after racing home when I told him on the phone. For the record,…
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Mom called last night, as she does more often now that she lives stateside— "I was polishing the car, and guess what? The trim, the trim around the windows is gold! I have a pim…, it's been pimped, I have a you know pimp mobile! And then, you know what I have? I have a…
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A few memorable quotes from my trip to Palm Springs. Can you guess who said what? 1) "So why did you have to go to the Internet to find a woman?". A) Tom 2) "That's what she said". …
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Being recruited to do renovation demo, a kitchen plumbing mishap,long drives in a rental car, the worst of the worst embarrassing family stories….The Boy has sailed through the first Mikkelsen family holiday with flying colors. And Mom is in top form. But she may have met her match: Mom, as he was mopping up the…
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I took Paul up to Cedar Lodge for dinner with Dad last night. I had already explained the fritter appetizer, but I neglected to warn him of the post-dinner meat sweats.
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The boy wants to know if my family photographs every meal.
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My Dad sent me two iPad app recommendations today; both of them stellar, neither of which I knew.
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I dropped in at Dad's on the way back from a last-minute work appointment in Menasha earlier this week. My timing was excellent—they were going to have dinner at Cedar Lodge. Cedar Lodge does what it does very well. Which is to say, it stuffs you to the gills with red meat and ridiculous extras while…
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Gotta love the dog walker's status update. The subject line for photo 2 was "success". Good lord.
girl at large 