Category: The Activist
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Anna will be singing again tonight in the Seattle Children’s Chorus. Yesterday while she was riding her free-style bike, she was memorizing the words to a song in Swedish. She had the words propped up on her handlbars. I kept thinking, I love this kid.
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Eight years old? Eight years old!?! Wow. I told Anna she couldn’t turn eight because that would mean I’m getting older. First it’s eight, then nine, ten, eleven; before you know it they’re going away to college or overseas to be a missionary. You got to nip this thing in the bud or it snowballs…
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I was living in denial, but I eventually was forced to face the facts: this family can’t own pets. The guinea pig experiment started out so well, it looked like it might just work. For a while… Two fuzzballs in a wooden pet cabinet on the back porch. The girls did the feeding, cleaning, and…
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Sarah’s loose baby teeth had to be pulled by the pediatric dentist to make room for these Chicklet-sized adult teeth. She was so busy watching a cartoon on the ceiling monitor in the dentist office that she didn’t realize the dentist had number her mouth and pulled both of her baby teeth. I’m a little…
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Since the girls were out of school on Friday we enjoyed a 4-day weekend. The weather was amazing! Sunny, 70s, 0-humidity. It was a busy one though. Highlights: Open house at the girl’s school. Sarah gave us a detailed tour of her classroom showing us the work she’s been doing, reading, writing, math. Anna’s classroom…
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Yesterday evening, on Anna's birthday it snowed for the first time this winter season. It kept snowing during the early morning hours and we woke up to a few inches blanketing the yard and mounting up in the evergreens surrounding our house. It was beautiful and we were glad it was a Sunday so we…
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The birthday weekend officially began last night. To start things off Anna got her hair trimmed and styled at a salon. And then…drum roll please….she got her ears pierced! Yep, the big 7-year-old didn't cry at all, but it's no surprise because she gets immunization shots regularly without flinching. Today, she'll be having her Santa…
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