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A little video clip of my girls for you to enjoy this morning.  So please, enjoy.  

Earlier this week we got back from our trip to Shenandoah, Virginia.  My sister in law Mindee took some pictures, and I took them from her.   It was crazy hot and humid, but it was great to see everyone, and it really was quite beautiful.  Thanks for the memories! AND thanks for the pictures, Mindee! (I'd still love to have the actual files of the pictures of my girls too, I just copied these off facebook.)

The other day we were playing at Zaida's house, she and her sister Divia are good friends of my girls.  They were swimming and playing in the water outside, and when I went to get them Hallie became distraught that she had never been able to play with the doll house inside.  She managed to leave their house without too much fuss, but then began crying in the car on the way home.  She continued to cry at home for another hour or so. Now, what you need to know about Hallie is that she rarely cries or gets worked up in such a major way about things.  I mean, minor whining here and there sure, but a full on "tantrum" is unusual for her.  So when she does let herself go, she really loses it and has a hard time regaining control of herself. The saddest part is that I knew she loved Zaida's dollhouse, and so when one went up for sale at a great price, I went out and bought it.  Which is exactly the reason she was at the friend's house in the first place, so s...

I've been thinking a lot about legs the past few months.  In the summer, you see a lot of them all over the place.  People wearing shorts and skirts and swimsuits and you just get to thinking a lot about these limbs that move us around.  I must confess that I am sort of slightly obsessed with my children's legs.  I love everything about the legs of children and toddlers.  They are so clumsy and so stubby, and they try so very hard.  Sometime toward the beginning of the summer I put all my girls in their swimsuits and we were on our way out the door to adventure and sunshine and as I watched their six legs move past me, I looked down at my own.  Their legs I love, my legs I tolerate.  I felt a sense of loss that my legs were no longer as beautiful as they had been in my own childhood.  I've always hated my knees, actually, but now my legs had stretch marks and cellulite and weird bumps and spots of discolored skin, like mosquito bites from ...

Hello, sometimes when I have a list of random things that I want to post but don't really come together, it makes me feel like I am in administration sending memos to my hard working employees. I have no idea why it makes me feel that way, but it does. There you go. 1. The girls came down sick with some crazy bug on Sunday night and they were in our bedroom all night whimpering and crying with buckets and trips to the toilet.  We have stayed close to the bathrooms since then, hiding out in our house just in case someone has to make a quick run.  The bug spread from Hallie and Hanna to Heather and Hanna, but thankfully Devin has avoided it and I think we are all over the worst of it. 2. Aren't you so glad I shared that with you? Yes.  I don't know why I wanted to.  Perhaps because it's crazy to get sick in the summer.  Crazy! Who does that?  Well, apparently, a lot of people, but it seems wrong somehow. 3. I love fireworks, and am therefore very...