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30 MAY 2007Oh my heck, I can't believe it's been a month since my last "real" post. I kept saying to myself, "It's already been a couple of weeks, I better update that site." But a month...well, that's just not acceptable. In my defense, the past few weeks have been hectic and non-stop. Mike had some major projects due and mock boards this week. Our "holiday" weekend was spent staying out of Mike's way and keeping the girls busy and happy. My hobbies have taken on a new life as they have filled up much of my free time with web design and photography. I have 3 websites that I'm now maintaining regularly. Now that the weather is making a turn for the better, people are also interested in getting pictures taken. I had 3 photo shoots last week. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. I really love doing that stuff, but it's all just keeping me very busy.
14 MAY 2007Sorry to make this post short. My computers were down half of last week. It was some freakish thing where I could visit one website and click maybe one or two links, and then the computer froze. Forget about opening any programs because the computer just ignored me anyway. The strange thing was that it was happening on both computers. I figured some virus attacked. Mike installed and ran some registry fix, and, amazingly, the computers are working just fine now. In the midst of all this I discovered that I only have 3 gigabytes of harddrive space left on my laptop's C: drive. I only have 30 gigabytes total and half of it's partitioned on another drive. This is not good considering I can fill up a 1 gigabyte memory card taking pictures in one hour. What to do, what to do? Oh, I don't know, buy a new laptop maybe... I have more to report on. Sick kids...AGAIN! A visit to the White House. Annie's spring program. Planting a garden. A field trip to a farm. In the meantime, I LOVE CAKE!
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The
first born is constantly surprising me with her questions, witty
remarks, and capabilities of learning new things. The child thrives
to learn how to spell new words each day. She asked how to spell
microphone yesterday. Um, what?!? Instead I usually try to quickly
pick a smaller word from my brain to spell for her such as girl.
Then the other day she said to me, "Mom, something's not quite
right." Where does she come up with this stuff? I tell ya,
I spend a lot of my day cracking up. Because of Annie's tendency
to dress up as a mermaid using socks and foam letters, Mike's mom
decided to make the girls mermaid tails (sorry, no pictures yet
to document this). Annie has been thrilled to now have a meraid
costume to wear regularly. The funny part though was when the tails
arrived, Annie put it on and then asked to go swimming. Uh, I don't
think so. {We did happen to open the pool last week, by the way.}
Annie's school has been brimming with activities the past few weeks.
She had a spring program early in the month where each class represented
a season or weather pattern. Annie's class was winter. Then Annie
went on a field trip to a farm (Mimi and I went, too). The farm
set up different learning stations such as how maple syrup, honey,
and butter are made. The kids were completely exhausted by the end
of the day. Tomorrow is Annie's last day of school, and on Friday
Annie's school is having a graduation. Mike's not too thrilled to
attend an event that "celebrates mediocrity", but I'm
kind of interested to see what they do. 
Mimi
is growing up to be quite the cute, little girl. Her speaking skills
are developing like mad. I love hearing the new things she says
each day. Mike's already got her memorizing the chain of command
that Annie knows so well. She seems to be in perpetual motion, and
I would dare to say she's even more hyper than Annie. Mimi loves
to tackle people (especially Annie) and usually doesn't slow down
before bashing into one's face--I speak from multiple experiences.
A surprising characteristic Mimi has developed is protectiveness
of her big sister. Whenever Annie is getting in trouble Mimi will
huddle over Annie and say, "No! Stop it!" I don't know
where that comes from, but it's hard to not give in and let Annie
get off scott-free. I'm sure the novelty will wear off soon. We're
still working with Mimi to get her potty-trained, but she's resisting.
I think we're making progress though because I caught her putting
her stuffed puppy on the mini-toilet telling it to "go potty"
yesterday. Mike has been making a great effort to teach the girls
about gardening. He has them help water the plants each day and
had them weed a little one day. So yesterday the girls were spending
their time outside working the land. They each had a watering pail
and spoons. I didn't notice until it was too late that Mimi had
been sneaking inside and putting scoops of dirt into the toilet.
I have no idea what she thinks she was doing. Hey, while you're
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