I hope you all are having a lovely weekend. The kids had Friday off of school and they also have tomorrow (Monday) off so it’s been a long weekend in every sense of the word. Since they didn’t have school on Valentine’s Day, they celebrated with their classes on Thursday. There’s nothing like picking your…

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Last week was the 100th day of school, and James’ class celebrated by dressing up like they were 100 years old. I loved it when Annie’s first-grade class did this a few years ago, so I’ve been looking forward to turning James into a little old man for a while. James is an even bigger…

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Happy New Year!! It’s 2020! Where is my flying car, where is my robot maid named Rosie? We continued our annual NYE tradition of ringing in the east coast’s new year with our friends at 9pm local time, and west coast new year on our couch at home together. This year Annie had no problem…

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The Southern California weather gods have brought us rain for the next five days. That’s the closest we’ll ever get to a white Christmas, so I’ll take it! Annie and James are doing “snow dances,” but it’s only going to get into the 40s here (that’s like six or seven degrees C) so there’s no…

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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We spent it in the Bay Area with Mike’s side of the family and had a really great weekend, despite the crappy weather that kept us indoors more of the time. It’s hard to believe that it’s already December…the year AND decade are just a few weeks…

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