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Remembering on Memorial Day
This is Kathryn at 8 months old (Memorial Day of 2001) sitting next to the memorial marker for my great-uncle George Walker. He was taken prisoner during WWII and was lost at sea when the ship he was on (as a POW) was sunk. His marker is in the Marietta National Cemetery. As far as…
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My Good-looking Parents: circa 1970 (or thereabouts)
One of my aunts recently sent me a big envelope full of old photos, mostly of me as a kid, but there were a few in there of my parents. I’d seen most of them before, but I can’t recall ever seeing this one. I love it! Retro cheese + my mom’s fab 1970’s outfit…
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Keeping Up Appearances
People often ask how things are going with Lindsey, and the truth is they are going really, really good. Better than I could’ve imagined, in fact. But even if I had given birth to Lindsey, there would be times when she would act in a way that frustrated or aggravated me. I feel like if…
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My summer plans and goals
This summer, I have some specific goals… Family: One big one is to complete the plans I’ve started for our upcoming school year. I have a few more curriculum decisions to make, and then a whole lot of scheduling kinds of plans. (I’ll be posting more about that later.) Ken and I want to start…
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Road Trip (aka 36 Hours in a Car with the One I Love)
Yesterday, Ken and I returned from a whirlwind trip to Connecticut to shoot a wedding. (I’ll be posting about it with lots of photos on the business blog later this week!) We couldn’t find what we considered reasonable airfare, but we’d committed to this job, so we decided the best thing to do was drive….
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Done!
Pardon me while I do the happy dance — because this week concludes our school year! Woohoo! Next week I plan to post sort of a yearly wrap-up to help me figure out what we did well, and what we need to change. Kathryn provided our handiwork this week; she is making friendship bracelets for…