so perhaps i was a bit hasty in my earlier impression…

Ok, so Philadelphia isn’t all bad. There are some nice parts and some are even pretty picturesque. However, i have never seen a city where there is such blatant disregard for any litter laws (if they have them here). The strange part is that it is so filthy that you expect only gang-bangers, druggies and [...]

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I’m not even going to attempt to catch up…

i’m using one of those “ergonomic” keyboards where they’re split in in two so that you don’t get carpal tunnel. I hate them.
We are in philadelphia right now and before i say anything else, I would like to applaud philadelphia for making me appreciate the emerald jewel that is seattle. Philadelphia is one dirty little [...]

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Aaaand we’re off!

Here is a picture of me just now. I am carrying everything we will be taking with us on this 17 day adventure. That’s right, you should be amazed.

I learned my lesson the hard way when I went on a mission trip to Asia a few years ago and thought that it would be a [...]

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I do have standards, you know…

Here’s one thing I won’t eat: Brussel Sprouts.
I never really remember having to eat brussel sprouts when I was growing up. I know that my mom planted them in the garden one year, but I don’t remember ever actually eating them. I do know that she never grew them after that.
A few years ago I [...]

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Shoe Envy

Violet loves shoes. I’ve raised my little girl right. The other day we were at target, and she was trying to put pairs of shoes over her other shoes. AJ made a comment about her being obsessed with shoes and I said, “Hey, at least it’s not purses.” She also likes to wear shoes in [...]

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everyone needs to invent a new word once in a while

I realized today (now don’t laugh) that my mom  actually didn’t  make up the word “Discombobulated”. I really honestly never thought to look in the dictionary for it, and I thought she had made it up. This changes everything.
On the front page of today’s  Freaking Cute Herald, AJ just taught Violet how to do the [...]

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Dance, Dance, Revolution

Today’s post goes out to Pastor Tim Poetzl. Apparently, he’s come up with a unique way to teach his young children the art of genuine forgiveness and apologies.
It goes like this:
1. have your children hold hands and face each other.
2. next, they must either sing songs made up on the spot of how much they [...]

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Does this make me a bad person?

Tonight we listened to the sounds in the park as the neighbor’s nasty little dog started a fight with a bigger dog. The bigger dog won. We totally high-fived.

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several things, pertinent or not.

Violet is officially a walker. Meaning, not a crawler …ever again…sad. *sniff*
AJ just found a watermelon seed in the clean laundry. That means it went through the washer and dryer. interesting.
I spent my morning contacting potential hosts for couchsurfing during our three week tour of the east coast. Yes, they might be an ax-murderer, yes, [...]

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The Sauce Stashers

You’ve seen them…furtively grabbing hand fulls of hot sauce packets for their lonely little taco, using one and then shoving the rest in their pockets. Men in power suits with a laptop, old women with flowers on their hat, little kids with big pockets in their baggy jeans. All of them–sauce stashers. It’s not stealing [...]

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