Yearly Archive: 2016

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Florida

It doesn’t look like Florida, does it? Florida was where I was supposed to be. I was going to head down there to provide a distraction for my mother and Phil from the various medical issues...

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Africa, or How About Paris?

Last Saturday, Meagan departed DC at about 6:30 pm headed for the Ivory Coast on another business trip. Upon landing in Abidjan on Sunday at about 3:30 pm our time, she turned on her phone...

2

The Fireballs

To be perfectly honest, I never thought Heather and her team would make it to the finals of the 3-on-3 tournament. Since they did, and since they had us laughing most of the weekend, I feel...

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The Final Final

Dave and I have watched the girls play basketball for the past 15 years or so. I think we watched our last championship basketball game ever this past week. Here’s a short recap of those...

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Scrapbook: Meagan’s Room

This scrapbook post comes pretty quick on the heels of the previous scrapbook post, but that’s because I finally wrapped up the transformation of Meagan’s room at the same time I finished the redo of...

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A Jumble of Thoughts

I rarely make it through the night without waking up at least once or twice. Sometimes, I get back to sleep fairly quickly.  Other times, not so much. During the times I can’t fall back to sleep,...

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Scrapbook: Heather’s Room

I finally worked up the nerve to completely redo Heather’s room. It was pretty frightening since she insisted I not change a thing, especially the Summer Blue paint color. I did not share any of...

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Trials and Tribulations

  The Moody’s were on vacation last week, and, as usual, it wasn’t without its trials and tribulations. The first being the weather. It was good, but not great. When we are on vacation,...

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A Branch of the Tree

While writing that story about my great-grandmother, I may have become ensnared in the claws of Ancestry.com. It started off with a free trial, and then I got sucked into paying for a month’s...