Playing With Dad

The pictures are from one evening last week.  Shortly after Chris got home the kids were all over him, so everyone moved upstairs for the beloved "Airplane/Jump All Over Dad/Pretend The Bed Is A Trampoline."  It's a crowd pleaser.And that's it.  No story, just pictures and a lot of laughing that nig...

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The Window

The snow last week made for some beautiful BEAUTIFUL scenery around here.  Including inside the house.  It never ceases to amaze me how much brighter and prettier everything is when it's white outside.  I kept the lights off in the house most of the day and let the rooms be lit by the white blanket that covered every branch outside.  It was amazing.Hannah spent lots of time playing at the window as well.  Jayce had set up...

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Oh Dear

People periodically ask me if I think the kids will pick up British accents.  For Jayce, I think, yes.  He is in school all day, surrounded by the various accents of his teachers and peers, and it seems pretty inevitable that he'll pick up some of that.For Hannah, I have always thought, no.  She is home with me all day, so presumably she should sound like me.But I wasn't thinking broadly enough.  She is exposed to tv.  The other morning, Peppa Pig's mom said, "Oh dear" and then Hannah parroted her perfectly.  Ooo dee-uh....

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The Song of My Dreams

Jayce made this picture last week for his babysitter.  It's him, can you tell?  Did you notice that he's wearing the same striped pjs in the picture?  He's standing next to a tree, that's on fire, (but don't worry they called the fireman), and his old blue house.  When he showed it to me, I immediately reached around and hugged him. Kids' minds are so funny sometimes.Along those lines, a few weeks ago when Jayce was really sick...

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Our Christmas House

(**I'll just start by saying, I don't think anyone still is interested in talking about Christmas decor.  I wrote this post a month ago, a month!, and it's been sitting in my drafts for all of that time.  So dagonit, I'm going to publish it.  It just so happens that a few things that were sprinkled around my home were making their way slowly, ever so slowly as gifts to friends and family in the US, so I didn't want to ruin the surprise....

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Things I'm Learning

(It snowed this morning!  This has nothing to do with this post, other than, it's snowing as I write this!  Snow snow snow!) Well, I post a list of my 2013 to dos and then I take off, right?  How annoying.  Let me assure you that no one was more annoyed last week than me.  I have spent the last 5 days with a computer that is out of working order, and had a few moments of tears and despair, (like when I thought that I...

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My 2013 List, Month by Month

When Chris and I moved to London, we talked a bit about what I would like to do now.Now that Jayce is in school all day long and I have a little more time to myself.  Now that we live in this amazing city with so many resources to take advantage of.  Now that Hannah is closer to sleeping through the night than she has been in the past.  Now that our whole life seems to be a clean slate, waiting for us to fill it up with whatever we'd...

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