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  I think I have mentioned before that part of our family’s birthday celebrations include the birthday person getting to decide on a place to eat out.  Because of everything going on at the time, we didn’t get to go out for a birthday lunch for K. I guess it had been a pretty yucky day […]

  The scissors got left out and E3 just was too curious about whether or not it hurt to get a haircut.  She trimmed a couple of locks around her face, but she cut halfway down or so, so you really can’t tell she did anything at all except it curls a bit more.  It […]

  The oldest 2 were watching an episode of the evening Pokemon marathon that was going on all week.  E4 was crawling around them, trying to get them to play with her, so E2 gave her pieces of his Yu-Gi-Oh pyramid puzzles.  I thought there was something a bit ironic with her chewing on Yu-Gi-Oh while they […]

  This is the other “modified” phrase E3 uses that I would like to remember forever.  Life Savers candies are called “light sabers” and the butter rum flavor is “bubblegum.”  I had a roll of them in the drawer and she came to me and asked for a “bubblegum light saber.”  It just makes my […]

Another practice knife photo- this time with the blade toward the camera so the perspective of the blade doesn’t seem smaller. This knife was a Valentine’s Day present for K: I liked the heart on it. Now that he knows that, he’s going to have a hard time carrying it anymore.

It seems like my kids have used very few “modified” words, so when they do have one, I would like to be able to remember it years from now. E3 calls tattoos “taptoes,” and as she loves temporary tattoos, she gets to say that fairly often. This was one she got at the Harry Potter […]

We had been waiting for this day for a long time. The seventh Harry Potter book was released, and of course the parties are just part of the whole Harry Potter experience now. K had been planning on taking E1 and E2 all along, but I talked him into taking all of us. (I really […]

  I love raw almonds.  They are a staple for me; they taste great and are one of the most nutritious things I can eat according to my research (I love to research nutrition). *Warning, very rare rant ahead* Although, I can’t really buy them anymore.  The almonds I usually buy at Trader Joes say raw on […]

  We have gotten some of the best tasting mangoes this summer!  Sweet as candy and full of flavor, with very little of that tangy note mangoes sometimes have. E1 has decided they are her favorite fruit. On a photographic note, I was really pleased how this pic turned out- although a good macro lens is now on my wish list. I […]

  K asked me to take a picture of a knife he wants to sell.  I couldn’t find the one he said, so I decided to practice with the one I could find.