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Entries from November 2006

Thinking About Thanksgiving

November 28th, 2006 · No Comments

During the Thanksgiving weekend, Christian and I were thinking about all the many things we have to be thankful for. The list is long. We are truly blessed. We also got to thinking about the things we are now more grateful for… because we don’t have them anymore. Virginia has been great, but these are [...]

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$$BABY$$

November 20th, 2006 · No Comments

$Clothes$, $Crib$, $Mattress$, $Diapers$, $Car-seat$, $Stroller$, $Baby Monitor$, $Bottles$, $Glider Rocker$, $Swing$, $Bouncer$, $Playpen$, $Blankets$. These are just a few of the new realities of parenthood that I’m facing. I didn’t know that you spelled the word BABY$$ with dollar signs, but I’m rapidly learning. I think for an equivalent sum I [...]

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Bulging Belly

November 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Well the new camera finally arrived and so that means a picture of the distended belly… I am now over the 150 lb mark too which seems rather incredible. I wish I had been taking pictures regularly throughout the pregnancy like they did in this YouTube video: 9 Months of Gestation in 20 Seconds
We’ll add [...]

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Voting for Vowels

November 8th, 2006 · No Comments

The election season yet again is upon us, and Jennifer and I did our duty to ensure that those individuals who best represented our views received our votes. I’m shocked to say that not a single individual that we voted for actually won. What does that say about our views?
I don’t know about Jen, but [...]

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Vesta: Here we come

November 1st, 2006 · No Comments

One of the major projects that I’ve been working on is the Dawn spacecraft that is being sent to the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Nasa is now accepting names that will be placed on a silicon chip to be sent with. I’ve already added Jen and I to the list as well [...]

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