Justin and Tasha at the Park

We met up with Justin and Tasha at a park in Cincinnati as we drove from Louisville to Akron last weekend.  There was a play area, slides, swings, a super-fast concrete slide, and inconspicuous picture taking.  Or maybe they knew what I was doing all along...

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A House and Things

 Over the past few months, I've had a strange (or not strange) awareness about our home and possessions.  Since we had such a quick turnaround from deciding to put it up for sale and then selling it, and then a quick realization that we would not be moving our things to another home, but getting rid of many of them, I've been mourning it a little but.  I feel a little like we had just recently gotten most everything the way we liked...

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Hair. Cut.

Before.  Channelling the Beatles, Chelsea would say.During.  Channelling Don Draper, in the only way that I will ever let him be anything like Don Draper.  (Sorry, currently in the middle of Mad Men on Netflix.)After.  Channelling a 5 year old, or even a 7 year old.  Let me know if you know where I can pick up a Beatles w...

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Resume Warp Speed

On Tuesday morning we found out that our visas has been approved and would be in our possession on Wednesday.I was at a friend's house when Chris told me the news.  She said, "Well, what now?"  I said, "Well, now we go to London."The visa approval is what we were waiting on before we did any of the "moving forward with this thing" things.   So, on Thursday, we made a final offer to the landlord of an amazing flat that we'd had...

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Our Last Week

The last full week in July was our last week in Lincoln.Our last month was, overall, a good one.  Peppered with some setbacks, like having our passports lost and the visa applications stunted while we applied for brand new passports.  But it was also full of company, help, friends and family.It was a month full of "lasts."   Last guys nights and girls nights, last play dates with various friends of both Jayce and Hannah.  (Unfortunately...

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What Now?

I imagine that I should first be posting about our move, or our last weeks in Lincoln, or some sort of processing/grieving/or excitement over what is to come sort of post right now, right?Right.  Right?  I don't know.Instead I'll just say that there are 3 different posts that fall somewhere into those categories and none are ready.  I keep trying to trim them down or finish them, but it's the sort of thing that can't or shouldn't...

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The Things You Do When You are You, Hannah

A few weeks ago I was looking at a blog entry that I did when Jayce was around Hannah's age where I was detailing some new trick that he was doing at the time, and I found myself wishing that I had given more information about the other things that he was doing at that age.  So I thought I'd do something like that  for both kids.  Jayce's is here.Hannah, your update will seem a bit less out of date since I had been doing your monthlys...

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