Archive for July, 2007

sunny-side-up

Just another morning conversation with my 4 year old…
Edison “Mom, how come grownups can have whatever they want when they want it?  Like a soda from the fridge and they don’t need to ask anyone?”  [side note - I was having pumpkin oatmeal & coffee...this was all random thoughts from his little bean]
Mom gives a complicated [...]

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The Tao of Kitty

                                                      
OK.  This is the perfect quiz to find out “how much you care about people and stuff around you“  Hello Kitty is now offering psychological helps to the uncaring people of the United States.  These questions may make more sense if you are Japanese.  My depressing results were a 40% caring “Basically, you don’t [...]

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interview with a four year old

[edison with his friend, ethan]
In the spirit of all of those forwarded emails I receive I thought I would ask some “get to know you better” questions to Edison….
mom: Let’s talk about your favorite things, OK?
Edison:  Ok.
restaurant?  That would be Chuck E Cheese (side note – he used to call this Chuck E Jesus which [...]

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Lazy days of summer

I am having a difficult time being motivated to do very much this week.  We had our gi-normous church yard sale this past weekend where I cleared out 2 stuffed to the ceiling car loads (Garrison’s car – so bigger then my teeny cavalier) of JUNK that has accumulated in our house since last year [...]

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God ALWAYS answers prayer!

   [thoughtful Claudia...]    
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     We just got home safely from a slightly stressful trip to run errands.  Bible study – fine, no problem.  Pizza Hut lunch (where Edison has been begging to go to use his “Book It!” coupon from the library) – fine, no problem.  To the bank to make a deposit – fine, no [...]

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Mimi & Pop Pop’s full house

    the cousins:  Gabriel, Ethan, Margaret, Edison, Ilya, Adeline, Claudia & Avery
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              Sorry about the lengthy absence…we have had a super busy July.  We spent most of July 4th week at the annual Edwards family reunion.  Garrison, Edison, Claudia & I went to Pennsylvania a day early so that we could go to Knoebels Grove [one of the [...]

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