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Road trips

And now we’ve come….to the end of the road

July 25, 2011

I believe it was Mark Twain who said there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. Or maybe it was someone else. Either way, our annual summer road trip ended on my back steps yesterday around noon and, I don’t want to speak [...]

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Four days on the road

July 21, 2011

Yesterday’s portion of the road trip involved a battle with silly string. It’s also the day I realized I worried needlessly about packing enough clothes to last Caroline for seven days because she’s decided all she needs is her new Astros t-shirt and a pair of denim shorts. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011

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Baseball, fish and candy. But not fish candy because that would be gross.

July 20, 2011

It’s almost midnight and we’re sitting here watching Despicable Me with the kids. We’ve had a big day and I’m ready for bed. But I think I might be the only one. Fortunately, I’m one of the adults pretending to be in charge so I plan to announce it’s officially bedtime as soon as I [...]

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We hit the road, Jack

July 19, 2011

Well. The time has arrived. Gulley and I loaded up the kids yesterday and have officially embarked on Summer Road Trip 2011. Here are my top ten moments from the road: 1. Gulley called yesterday morning to tell me Will was running a fever and questioned whether or not we should go. Caroline overheard our [...]

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Houston means that I’m one day closer to you or home or whatever

March 16, 2011

Before I talk about whatever it is I’m going to talk about today, I kind of want to throw out a disclaimer. I’m not even sure that disclaimer is the right word, but let’s go with it. I really struggle with what to write after any sort of huge natural disaster has occurred. On the [...]

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