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Danny Boy practice
A group of kids from school will be singing “Danny Boy” for the multicultural night at our school. They had their first practice at the coffee shop with a gelato treat afterwards.
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Golden Acorn
They handed out Golden Acorn awards to a handful of people at our school including my friend Leah during the Tuesday night PTA meeting. She puts so much time and energy into all her school projects. Congratulations!
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St Patrick’s Day
Naughty little leprechauns possessed my sweet Dahlia on St Patrick’s Day. She was so mad as Monti and I sang Danny Boy in the car. The huge fit started when I would not buy her a slice of pizza because we had dinner ready at home.
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Lots of snow, lots of skiing
My Dad and I skied every other day while he was in town. Each time we went there was more powder. Joe joined us the last time we went. It was snowing so hard it was nearly like skiing with your eyes closed. I had to just make sure my legs were ready to act…
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Irish festival
We were looking for something to do on Sunday so we headed down to the Irish festival at Seattle Center. I’m not sure how balloon creatures are related to Ireland but they were a huge hit especially the highly requested octopus.
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Monti’s photo shoot
Monti set up the upstairs hall to be like a photo studio. She had paint cans for some of us to sit on. She was emulating the Disney Cruise photographer’s setup. She took about 20 pictures and I swear my Dad looks like he has his eyes closed in every one of them.
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Potty training for Annie
For Monti's science fair project she will see if it is possible to train a hamster to use a litter box. We added the corner litter box to the cage today. We can't wait to see if she will use it or not.
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Dahlia’s birthday week at school
This week Dahlia had a chance to celebrate her birthday at school. She wore her birthday crown and everybody sang Happy Birthday to her before eating their donuts. She made an “All about me…” poster this week to display in her classroom. It was very easy to tell who had helped her make her poster.…
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Moonrise
While my mom was in town we would sit in the hot tub at night waiting for the moon to rise. We had no idea that the moon rise differed so much each night. One night we sat in the hot tub over two hours thinking the moon would rise any moment.
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Taking my Dad skiing
My dad and I snuck off for the slopes as soon as I dropped the kids off at the bus stop. It was nearly a bluebird day up at the summit. In skiing lingo a bluebird day is a beautiful sunny day after an overnight snowfall. I am trying to learn all the skiing lingo…