From the monthly archives: April 2012

Water, Baby

On April 30, 2012 · 7 Comments · In nora, spring season

Last spring, we signed Nora up for a waterbabies class as soon as she was old enough (minimum age is six months). This year, we debated about whether to do it again, and decided that it would be a good way to gear up Nora for the summer. She hadn’t been in a pool [...]

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Operation Baking GALS: For My Brother

On April 23, 2012 · 2 Comments · In operation baking gals

Once upon a time, before I had my precious little Nora, I liked to bake. A LOT. Somehow, I got hooked up with this organization called Operation Baking GALS, who organize teams of people to send care packages–many with home-baked goodies!–to soldiers who are deployed overseas. If you’ve been around here for a while, you [...]

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Funfetti Blondies

On April 23, 2012 · 3 Comments · In recipes - dessert

My cooking/baking had already become pathetic, but it was taken to a whole new level once we started the kitchen renovation. Now, we have a functional kitchen, but I have a very, very busy day job and we still have a to-do list a mile long for our house, so cooking and baking remains low [...]

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An Early (Now Belated) Easter

On April 18, 2012 · 3 Comments · In family, holidays

As I mentioned last week, I was actually out of town for work on Easter–so I didn’t get to spend the day with my little family. :(

Instead, we celebrated the week before (on April 1), which worked out for a variety of reasons. For one, my brother was home for a short leave [...]

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Contract

On April 16, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Uncategorized

Praise heaven, we are officially under contract to sell the condo.

We are scheduled to close on May 25. We could not be more relieved.

It’s been awfully tempting to bust out some champagne, but 1) who has time for that? and 2) I’m still hesitant to celebrate until it is OFFICIAL official. Like, keys [...]

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