Bethanyology

Today might be the anniversary of my knee spraining incident last year. I was very pregnant and fell in a parking lot chasing my kids. No one noticed. I celebrated the auspicious occasion by falling again. Only this time I fell down the stairs. Not pregnant, in my house. And this time I was chasing [...]

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I folded and put away two loads of laundry today and washed another two. I still have a couple more to wash tomorrow. My reaction would be appropriately enthusiastic if some laundry elves were to make the dirty laundry magically appear good as new, folded neatly in their correct places in our drawers. I’m just [...]

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Colin was listening to the radio on the way home and heard that the President of Indonesia is being sworn in for a second term. His name is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Awesome.

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Last night we went to San Francisco for our date. We actually went a-touristing with my sister Ruthie and friend Hillary. Yay for visitors! We actually started with dinner at Ping’s Chinese Restaurant in San Rafael, which is consistently lovely and affordable at the same time. If you ever get to go, order mu shu [...]

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At six o’clock this morning I’ve already got things waiting for me… A stinky diaper 3 kids to dress 3 loads of laundry to fold Breakfast to make Toys to pick up It’s kinda like my school days when I’d wake up and realize I had put off my homework till morning.  But different, since [...]

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Maggie had her 3rd birthday a couple weeks back. It was a transition of a few days for her. She had a family party (she got her requested mac&cheese, olives, and broccoli) two days in advance, then spent the day of in her car seat on our roadtrip to Utah, and proceeded to spend several [...]

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Yesterday afternoon and through the night our power was out. I love temporary power outages because they force us to abandon the TV and internet for more social stress-busters. And it’s a little like camping, with the flashlights and/or candles! I had a feeling the power would be out for more than a few minutes, [...]

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Another plug for my favorite eye-products vendor, zennioptical.com. We broke a couple of pairs of glasses on our vacation, me snapping an arm off one of my $8 pairs while putting the baby in a car seat and Maggie losing a nose pad while she patiently sat in a car seat. I went to order [...]

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Things I Want to Read About: Bonsai trees Square foot gardening Emergency preparedness Acrylic painting Child development: preschool years and early child hood General parenting General Authorities’ biographies Exercise Nutrition Non-electronic activities for children Nursery rhymes Photography

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I took the kids to the library today. I adore libraries for a variety of reasons–free books, the comforting book smell, predictable organization, to name a few. But since a few years ago when my oldest became a toddling library monster, enthusiastically pulling mountains of books off shelves or bee-lining for the elevator whenever I [...]

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