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Aunt Meghan is a life guard at the local pool here in Vermont. She also gives swim lessons. Private swim lessons before the pool opens to the public!
Maggie is *determined* to learn. It’s awesome to watch 🙂
Aunt Meghan and Maggie
Logan and Burke
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You can’t see her, but Maggie is there too…
You can’t see him, but Mike’s not 😦
A week in Vermont…with the kids…without Mike. Good thing Grandpa, Nana, and Aunt Meghan (and probably Aunt Sharon and Uncle Jason) will be my ‘back-up’ parents for the week 🙂
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I just finished reading A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick for my book club. After reading so many Debbie Macomber books (that are fast-paced and get you to where you want to go), it was hard for me to make the mental change at first. I mean, seriously. The entire first chapter is one of the main characters waiting at the train station. No joke. In that first chapter I found myself thinking, “Does this guy have an editor??” because he repeats himself so much it’s annoying. (I GET that he doesn’t like what he sees when he looks in the mirror – you only have to tell me that once.)
Aside from that (and figuring out how to just skip all the stuff Mr. Goolrick tends to repeat), I actually enjoyed the story. I didn’t relate to any of the characters, but I found I wanted to know what was going to happen to all of them. There were parts that dragged for me – possibly because I kept getting interrupted while reading; probably because of the aforementioned repeating.
It was fairly…shall we say…graphic (only so I don’t get the pervs hitting my site while searching the web), but not too over-the-top “graphic.” I’m not a guy, so I have no idea how realistic some of the thoughts one of the main characters has…but WOW if they are 😉
I hesitate to recommend the book. I’m glad I read it because it was entertaining and made me think a bit…but at the same time, there are so many other books I’d recommend before it.
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While walking around our yard yesterday, I ran across a spent fire cracker shell. And then another one. And another. Around our just-under-half-acre lot, I think I picked up between 40 and 50 shells.
Our neighbors shoot these things off every year, but this is the first time I’ve seen them in our yard. Or, at least, seen so many of them!
I know next-to-nothing about these things…so I have no idea if they’re still hot when they come down.
Here’s the thing: Mike, Burke, Maggie, Logan, Uncle Jason, and Cousin Grey were camping out there. And I found shells all around the tent. WTH?!
Even if they weren’t out there, I’d still be pissed. It’s been REALLY dry here…can you say grass fire? And we have a few blow-up toys that could pop if hit by these things (obviously, these aren’t as important as my family!!)
Yes. I did go over there…with a cup full of the shells. Had to step over an obvious launching pad to get to the door. I was polite and just said it all made me nervous (not untrue). He said he’d pass it along to the ‘culprits.’
I really don’t want to start a neighbor war (they’re actually very nice people…not to mention I get the feeling we’d lose – badly 😉 they have fire crackers!!), but Mama Bear is pissed.
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The 4 kids (Maggie, Burke, Cousin Grey, and Logan) in their glow caps.
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Aunt Sharon, Uncle Jason, Cousin Grey, and Cousin Petra joined us for our town’s carnival. 🙂
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Yeasterday, Mike put up some shadow box picture frames that never made it onto the walls when we moved (3 years ago…).
Today, I found some additional decorations on it…
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We put together the climbing wall yesterday. I was a little worried about Logan on it…but I really didn’t need to. All 3 kids are pretty sure-footed. Confident climbers Make My Monday!
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One of the ‘hot’ things to do for Father’s Day – at least in my twin’s club – is the D.A.D photos…so I hopped on the bandwagon. 🙂
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I was able to enjoy this…
…Because of this!
Thank you Granny Frani!
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The Zimmer Zoo 