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So we’ve had to end this dog-round-2.
Reasons we could give, but that’s the conclution.
Two nights ago after the new home was nearly confirmed I told the girls.  Melody was impassive, but Natasha was very sad.  Distressed.
I told her what I could, and felt how unhappy she was about it.  And prayed about it.  Thought a [...]

Natasha was playing on her bed today, flopping backwards onto her pillow. After a while she misjudged and fell into her headboard instead (there was a nasty crack).
For a while she could only cry while I held her, and wouldn’t answer my how-are-you-feeling question.
“Can you see okay?” I asked, trying a different tack. [...]

Twice as we were driving to Wasilla and passing roadwork Natasha shouted, “Daddy!  Look!”  Both times there was the quick glacing about for the source of her delight before she pointed to the side of the road and said, “Dirt!”
We couldn’t help laughing.
On the way home the girls were asking something about clouds and where [...]

I can’t remember if I mentioned it before, but I recieved a scholarship for the Summer Arts Festival’s storytelling class.
This was very cool because I wouldn’t have been able to go otherwise.
The combination of personalities and beliefs creates an interesting chemistry.  Elisha’s been sleeping poorly again, and my awareness is  being filtered through that tiredness, [...]

Well, this illness has just been holding-on, finger- and toenail.
Thankfully no one else seems to have gotten sick, and I only cough when I’m tired, but that seems to be pretty consistently every evening now.
I was pretty useless last night, from a bit before Jay got home.  As much as I enjoy the license to [...]

Jay did a fantastic job cleaning up the house Saturday while the kids and I were visiting a friend.  He’d picked-up all the floors so I could see most of the living room.
I was complementing Jay again on how nice the new floor looks, thanking him again for his hard work.
“Isn’t it great?” I said [...]