As you can tell, I am not doing the post-every-day-in-November thing this year. But I would like to put up a few posts this month, at least! So I will back up to the end of September to cover the...
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Heya. School has started! Shmoo began first grade on August 29th. His best friend and one other student from last year's class are with him. I got a really cute picture of the three of them, but I don't want...
Got this in a Money Mailer® yesterday. People, you have got to click to embiggen. A coupon. From a cemetery Memorial Garden. I just. So, the coupons have no expiration date! (HPR: "Even though YOU do!") I have no idea...
Today, 8:45 a.m. Roo: May I please have a cupcake? Me: Not until after lunch. [pause] Roo: May I please have lunch?
I was looking through the library shelves lately, saw this, and had to check it out. Ruth Sanderson, how did you channel my daughter's image? If Goldie's eyes were olive-green-brown rather than the blue you see here, she would be...
Roo's latest favorite video. She likes Gilgamesh best, the little weirdo.
HPR and I have decided that in lieu of Valentine's Day, we will celebrate St. Trifon Zarezan's Day (Bulgarian St. Trifon the Pruner.) On this day, Bulgarians begin to prune the vines for the coming year's grape harvest. Festivities also...
We have some new routines in 2011. Roo-tines. I have been able to pick up some regular freelance work (yay!), so we have arranged for Roo to go to a nearby daycare three mornings a week. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday...
Please come back. I miss you. I'm not the same without you. We had a good run, didn't we? More than three years . . . that special time every day that left all involved refreshed and renewed? I have...
dune sledding Originally uploaded by augenby Julie Average December temperatures in the Outer Banks are 40 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit. Our experience was a few degrees colder. Did you know? Partially-inflated rafts and boogie boards make decent sleds.
I have chronicled past adventures of our crèche figurines. This morning, Roo asked me to help her put her baby Jesus into a perfect-scale VW bus. "I've gotta split, Ma. Nice threads, Wise brothers." And a close-up: "Prince of Peace...
Alicia, Shmoo's best friend, turned six yesterday. That morning, her mom contacted me, asking whether they could pick both kids up from Kindergarten and take Shmoo out to eat with them to celebrate Alicia's birthday. After running it by HPR,...
Saw this in the paper (click to embiggen). Really, Maryland? A Drive-Through nativity scene? Shepherds dropped what they were doing and herded their sheep through the sleepy streets of Bethlehem to see a little baby. Wise men traveled hundreds of...
13 years to go, originally uploaded by augen. Roo, you sure have a lot of personality packed into your 32 pounds. You are 3 and 1/6 years old. One of my favorite things about you these days is your fake...
About a year ago, HPR and I got sucked into watching What Would Jesus Buy? (I had clicked on a link, not realizing it was a full-length video.) It was great. So if you have 91 minutes to spare, see...
Ten years ago, in Pazardjik, Bulgaria, HPCPC* and I got together. We had gotten to know each other the previous weekend, celebrating Thanksgiving with a handful of other Peace Corps volunteers and several residents of Smilyan, the village where HPCPC...
lights in the parkway # 12, originally uploaded by pammienderek06. Went to Allentown's "Lights in the Parkway." Fun!
Shmoo receved his Kindergarten school photos! The older photo is from when he's about 2½.
As we did last year on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, here is where we spent the day. We learned from our mistakes. This year, we were properly blood-sugared. It was awesome.
A couple days ago, I received this comment on an old blog post: "I hope I'm not being too forward, but I was searching for information on my grandfather's uncle, the same Raymond Koppang who died on the Indianapolis, and...
Elsewhere I pointed out that I find it a bit disturbing that Woodstock eats turkey in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving." I learned that a friend's parrot loves chicken. Related: Oh Richard Scarry, I love you, but. um. Maybe that's just...
I think I never announced on my blog that I submitted my prom photo to Promtacular, which is basically Cakewrecks meets Awkward Family Photos in dyed-to-match shoes. My photo was featured back in February. Kristy entitled it "Prom on the...
Every-day blogging has really jumped the shark here at juliloquy. My apologies. I want to write a real Post of Appreciation for my awesome Roo. Too bad I'm kept so busy raising her. Anyway, thanks, Alana, for the idea of...
Today is my sister's birthday! Here she is last summer being smothered by Rooie. There's so much I admire about her. She handles everything (kids, her own business, travel, community involvement, kids' schedules, hobbies, a dog) with exquisite taste, creativity,...
Shmoo for the longest time wouldn't draw. I think he was intimidated—he knew he didn't have the skill to reproduce what was in his head. Then he started drawing machines. Usually baking machines. He tried his hand at robots and...
This posting-every-day-in-November results in some predictable repeats of blog themes. You've got your Halloween recap, your son's birthday report, your lost-then-returned cat news, Thanksgiving . . . Yes, lost-then-returned cat. Stella did it again. This afternoon I printed these to...
I've got nothing tonight. I try not to post about being sick (cough cough cough). So. I took the kids to Despicable Me at the cheap theatre tonight. Six dollars total for tickets for the three of us, and $6.10...
A staple for us through the cold season is miso soup. Easy comfort food! We don't use a written recipe, so the amounts listed are estimates. I recommend playing around with the ingredients to your taste. It's really an open-ended...
No need to spend money on hair detangler! Use watered-down conditioner. When a bottle of my conditioner is at the point where it's difficult to get any more out of it, I fill it with a little bit of water...
A short post tonight; we have been playing virus volleyball here and I am wiped. But I wanted to highlight my brother. When he visited us last month, he, Roo, and I took a brief hike on the Whiskey Still...
My awesome and amazing sister-in-law has written an about-to-be-released crochet book called Baby Blueprint Crochet. She names many of the patterns after people she knows.* Yesterday, she presented to her readership the Joni Jumper. Named after da Roo! [Rooie herself...
Here's a little game we like to play at our house: Who Will Be the First to Cave and Take the Recycling and/or Trash Out Already? Bonus excitement comes from the Jenga-like challenge of putting each new piece atop the...
Roo explains the galaxy Originally uploaded by juliloquy The November-birthday boy has been the focus of so much of this month's blogging thus far; it's time for da Roo to shine. Here she is, reading a book before bed tonight.
As part of the party favor goodie bags, as mentioned, we followed my friend Niki's lead and made CDs of Shmoo's favorite tunes. You will see that we rely heavily on a few albums of kid-directed music. We threw in...
After the festivities this weekend, Shmoo's actual birthday (today) may seem anticlimactic. I'm certainly happy to put the electric mixer away for a few weeks. (Not to come out again until Christmas cookie time.) We started the day retelling his...
The ideal music to accompany the frosting of four dozen cupcakes is Paul Simon's Graceland. And the ideal drink is Bushmills, neat.
Another photo-intensive post! We survived the party. A clear path of birch tree seeds coats the hallway from the kitchen to the playroom and living room. All four of us (and the attendees, I'm sure) are exhausted. New friendships, toys,...
My tweet earlier today says it all: Cleaning today in preparation for an invasion of 10 Kindergartners tomorrow (+ younger siblings). My version of a Buddhist sand mandala . . . [especially the "ritual destruction" part]. Cupcakes are in the...
Little did I know I'd get several days of posting out of the green tomato harvest. Today after we dropped Shmoo off at Kindergarten, Roo and I got to work on the tomatoes. I set aside the red cherry tomatoes,...
We're finally getting frost at night. (This prairie girl is happy with the "subtropical highland" climate of Frederick.) I covered the tomatoes and lettuce before going to bed on Nov. 1, then harvested all the tomatoes yesterday after we returned...
Voted. Today was a rare day with no school for Shmoo coinciding with a regular day off for HPR (Tues-Wed), so after doing our civic duty, we headed to the C & O Canal (Great Falls Tavern Visitor Center). You...
Here's our photo from last night, snapped by our neighbor: spider, fairy, cat trying to wink, and WordGirl. Costumes were homemade, except for Roo's tutu, wings, and wand, which were birthday gifts from my parents for her dress-up bin. My...
Visit NaBloPoMo Through November. I've had things I've meant to post here and there, but then thought I'd save them for Nov. Which is silly and dumb. But that's how I roll these days. Happy Halloween!
Shmoo is now in Kindergarten! He began August 24th and goes full days to a public charter Montessori school. He likes it, even though he made a comment the other day about "all the work" they have to do. Roo...
Comments made during a recent day trip, after looking for brewed iced tea, yet finding only sweetened and flavored bottled varieties: "This demonstrates everything that is wrong with America! We can't just have plain iced tea. We have to have...
I'm trying to decide what is my favorite part of potty training. Of course I love cleaning the evidence of bodily functions off various surfaces, especially carpet. The piles of laundry - more of you to love! Sometimes the two...
Heya, so what's new? Blogger's block, bleah. Let's unstick this thing. Although Shmoo still has 9 days of school left, it already feels like summer break. The kids have been spending every spare minute outside. There are two girls Shmoo's...
Earlier in the month, HPR and I presented at Shmoo's pre-K class for Peace Corps week. Well, HPR did most of the presenting, since he is the one who owns a traditional Bulgarian costume and learned how to play the...
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