We went home again this last weekend. I have to tell you, and I apologize for the recurring theme here, but the water and air temperatures Saturday and Sunday were every kind of perfect. In case you are wondering, this is the best time of year to visit coastal Carolina. I highly recommend it. However, […]
Parenting
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A Tale Of Two Pairs Of Shorts
It’s always fun to take the small people into a formal social situation fraught with potential surprises, where we don’t know a soul. What do I mean? Well, in yesterday’s case, we took the small people to a new church on our new island. In a charitable gesture that morning, LCB wordlessly took over supervising […]
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Island Family Dinners During A Move
Sometimes, LCB is touched with a spot of brilliance. Last night was one of those moments. When we purchased our new house, the only kitchen appliance it had was a microwave. At this point in the moving process, we now have a refrigerator and a dishwasher as well. Words cannot express my gratitude for the […]
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Educating Small People On A New Island
Once upon a time, there was a girl who thought she could do a move into a new house that had various elephantine cleaning and functioning “issues†with just her LCB to help, all while getting three small people into new educational environments, and somehow, within a week, manage to look and feel like a […]
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Surviving And Thriving At Chuck E. Cheese
Well, we all chucked it up (not upchucked, thankfully) at Chuck E. Cheese on Thursday. It’s always fun to see how the three personalities manifest themselves in places like this. My little girl mainly wanted to ride everything she could. This ride was her favorite, so she rode it four times. She never really got […]
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The Lookout Game
Last week, I found the small people playing a new game. It looked like this. Apparently, it’s called “Lookout.†I noticed my eldest was holding a telescope, so I asked them what they were looking out for. Their answer was illuminating. “We don’t know. Stuff.†“Like pirates?†I asked excitedly. Pause. “Could be.†“Saber-toothed alien […]