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Hello world!

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moving

i’m moving.
new address:
homeofthebudds.typepad.com

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a couple days ago we got a card from this really great sixth grader we know telling us he’s graduating from high school! holy crap i feel old. my first year of teaching little kids at church he was in kindegarten i think. its funny that i only feel old when i see other people [...]

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my blog broke yesterday. i wasn’t too worried – mostly i was just frustrated that i couldn’t blog about it but when someone in the help group recommended i delete it and start over i decided i better call in superhero bryan and he fixed it right up. and recommended i think a [...]

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new discovery

“mom! when i sneeze, if i snort like a pig, the sneeze (snot) goes back in my nose!”

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score!

on our library trip today I was quite pleased to discover that they were having a book sale. this was as many as i could grab in the time allotted (by the children of course) while staying within my budget (cash i scrounged from my bag). i found a couple of deck building/designing books for [...]

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hand me down

remember this picture?

isaiah’s a bit more active tonight than ellen was on that night. he wasn’t at all interested in holding still.

i suppose a flash would have helped, but then it’s weird lighting. but you get the point – this, i think is the only article of clothing that will be handed down from [...]

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tonight we went to a summer solstice party (wasn’t that yesterday?) in a nearby town that was a citywide event and had dual purpose of debuting a recently redesigned park/rec area. the park was pretty outstanding. it’s pretty huge and among various athletic fields they had super cool playground equipment that i’ve never seen before [...]

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cakes

dave’s company has very casually hired me to be the official birthday cake maker. this works out great – i get a chance to bake and try new things, other people eat it for me and then tell me its great, and i get a couple bucks to boot. this one is the second one [...]

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permission

me: ellen???!? (looking for her in the backyard. and then finding her in the front filling up the watering can) you need to ask permission before you go over the gate.
ellen: i did mom.
me: you did? who did you ask?
ellen: me

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