tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872335052994826792024-03-11T22:44:55.958-07:00Stuff Jo Knows ...The artful over-share.Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.comBlogger870125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-24004156586846669072018-03-05T09:11:00.002-08:002018-03-13T15:24:06.110-07:00(Stuff Francie Made) - A First Book of Short Stories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
For Christmas this year, Francie (and I) made a book of short stories with accompanying art for Mimi/Papa and Daddy. She was the brains and beauty, I was simply her recorder and editor. The following results are from her masterpiece ...</div>
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The Magic of the World: Stories By Francie Lynn Close</div>
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By FLC, December 2017, age 5 1/2 years</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Once upon a time, there lived a queen and king. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">They never wanted to go outside because there was lava right outside their front door. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">No one ever came in or went out because they were worried that they would get hurt. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And the butterflies always stayed on flowers, they never landed on the ground because the ground was lava. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">There was only windows at the top of the castle because they didn't want windows to fall out </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and crack on the lava.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Once upon a time, there lived a Mama and a Francie. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">They loved each other. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">One day, they went in to the forest and then, out of their face, or, out of their mind, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">jumped a hungry pack of wolves and a hungry pack of coyotes and a hungry pack of foxes. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">They looked at each other with a glare and started to attack the people. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He was a very nice giraffe, he did not eat people. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He liked to eat weird stuff, like bugs, ears, earrings; and most of all his favorite food was poop. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">But the next day something also changed - his family went away. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">But all the others were like, "no, no, stay here! Stay here!" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He went off to find another monster. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And the one was left behind. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">So that one decided to set off also. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The first one who left came back with a smile. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He said, "Crew, crew, I'm back with some more!" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">"Crew, crew I have some more!" </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The little monster stayed there all night, cold and shivering. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Then a fox came to sight. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">"Oooh, I finally have something good to eat, mmm." </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">So the monster rose, and the fox was really frightened. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He got his big claws and teeth out and tried to bite the monster, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The mermaid called to her family and said, "Family! Family! You must come now! The big shark is trying to rise!" </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The little mermaid jumped and jumped so the shark did not get her. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And her family rose from the ocean and they all jumped on to a beautiful rock. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">but knew if he jumped too high he'd unbreathe. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He tried once, but then, with a 3 and a 2 and a 1 and a 0, the shark went to death.</span><br />
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<br />Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-29545717391261288362018-03-02T12:09:00.001-08:002018-03-02T12:09:39.503-08:00Advent Calendars 2017<br />
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Francie does the dab in her new holiday llama PJs.</div>
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Thanks to Beebee's genius idea six years ago, the shoe holder advent is a December tradition at our house, and now at my brother's place, too. We have aimed to make the daily surprises age appropriate, and include more activities and acts of kindness than simply things. It's kind of a big undertaking to prepare, but one we spent most of Thanksgiving planning and preparing. For posterity (and next year's prep work - so as not to reinvent the wheel), below are the lineups for both Hazel's and Francie's 2017 advents. And some photos, too.</div>
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Hazel, 1.5 years old, in her CO beanie at their place in Telluride.</div>
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Hazel's 2017 Advent:</div>
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Dec 1 - hot chocolate packets and Christmas movie recommendations for a Family Movie Night</div>
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2 - toy blocks</div>
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3 - kid book with audio CD</div>
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4 - cookie cutters with instructions for making salt dough ornaments for friends</div>
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5 - elf hat a</div>
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6 - playing cards</div>
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7 - recommended family outing for 12/8 to a Rock n Roll Academy winter concert at the Sheridan Opera House</div>
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8 - cookie mix and instructions to bake cookies for 911 dispatchers/firefighters</div>
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9 - recommended family outing for Telluride Mountain School Holiday Gala on 12/10 at the Sheridan Opera House</div>
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10 - cash (from Beebee) to buy a Toys for Tots item to give to a kid in need</div>
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11 - gloves and "go sledding" activity recommendation</div>
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12 - large dreamcatcher, handmade by Francie and Beebee</div>
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13 - "H" ornament</div>
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14 - Frozen nightlight</div>
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15 - recommended family outing to the Mountain Village holiday gala and Santa visit</div>
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16 - CO beanie</div>
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17 - Colorado map</div>
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18 - mini candy canes and instructions to "candy cane bomb" cars in a parking lot</div>
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19 - toy stackers from Thinker Toys</div>
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20 - toy animals to accompany stackers</div>
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21 - Lifesaver candy</div>
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22 - favorite Hartman family cookie recipes</div>
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23 - Heiffer International donation (from Beebee)</div>
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24 - Night Before Christmas book (from Beebee)</div>
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Francie's 2017 Advent:</div>
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Dec 1 - fancy holiday dress</div>
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2 - supplies and instructions to make button tree ornaments</div>
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3 - cash and shopping for Toys for Tots gift</div>
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4 - foam holiday stickers</div>
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5 - pre-printed Letter to Santa</div>
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6 - new holiday llama PJs</div>
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7 - materials and instructions to make a photo ornament for Hazel</div>
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8 - popcorn and hot cocoa packets for Family Movie Night</div>
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9 - stick-on earrings and family outing to see Annie play</div>
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10 - special brunch date with Mama at Original Pancake House</div>
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11 - materials and instructions to give out bean soup mix</div>
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12 - Heiffer International donation (from Beebee)</div>
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13 - Christmas Bingo game</div>
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14 - holiday headband and instructions to hand out the button tree ornaments and bean soup mix to teachers and staff at school on the last day before Winter Break</div>
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15 - new beanie and family outing to watch the Christmas Ship parade on the Willamette</div>
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16 - Cinderella craft and girls' outing with Morgan and Mila to a teddy bear breakfast show in LO</div>
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17 - gingerbread house kit</div>
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18 - instructions for buying and putting together "homeless bags"</div>
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19 - cookie cutters and mix to bake cookies for local firehouse</div>
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20 - family outing recommendation to zoo lights</div>
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21 - new gloves and family outing recommendation to go sledding or ice skating</div>
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22 - Christmas tin and instructions to bake and bring holiday cookies to the neighbors</div>
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23 - "C" ornament</div>
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24 - new notebook and thank you cards</div>
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*** other advent ideas include: writing a letter to "orphans," something for foster children, participating in collecting socks or serving food at a soup kitchen, visiting Santa, the Menne's annual cookie party, reading Night Before Christmas, new Christmas book, something for Hanukkah, making a birdfeeder for the birds, doing something kind for the earth like picking up trash, any other holiday crafts, love bombing, annual homemade ornaments, sledding, ice skating, skiing, donating blankets and socks for the cold, gifts for postal workers, Nutcracker, Alpenrose, holiday craft bazaars, researching acts of kindness</div>
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Beebee and Francie on Thanksgiving crafting a dreamcatcher for Hazel</div>
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Francie and the finished dreamcatcher</div>
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Mama and Francie making button tree ornaments</div>
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Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-4826341740356291392018-03-02T10:03:00.003-08:002018-03-02T10:03:50.733-08:00Pacific University, Speech-Language Pathology, and Dementia Care: A Short Movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am proud to be a part of community-based programs that otherwise would not receive these kind of services. This movie stars one of my former graduate student clinician's, Allie, who is now in the field and likely doing very good work.<br />
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These images are stills; the link to Pacific University/Speech-Language Pathology/Waterhouse Memory Care video <a href="https://www.pacificu.edu/about-us/videos/speech-language-pathology-waterhouse-memory-care" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Additionally, I discovered that there are a few more great videos from Pacific University, including one about Aphasia Camp, which you can watch at <a href="https://vimeo.com/208912124?ref=fb-share" target="_blank">this link.</a> And another about the Communication Sciences and Disorders program in general, <a href="https://vimeo.com/204104602" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Liking to draw all things "royal."</div>
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Gotta love when your daughter draws a family portrait and sounds out the word herself; and her depiction of her father is somewhat spot-on.</div>
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Mama Erika and Baby Evie</div>
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Sweet Baby Evie</div>
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BBQ turkey for Thanksgiving!</div>
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Beebee and Francie making a real dream catcher for Hazel's advent.</div>
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The Thanksgiving master at work.</div>
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All this, in sweatpants, too!</div>
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Low-key, but traditional, Thanksgiving celebration.</div>
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Mama and the Bean couch time.</div>
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Daddy and his Little Bear fast asleep.</div>
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Day after Christmas tree hunting!</div>
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Mama, Francie (and Birdy) with their favorite tree.</div>
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She's got the Christmas spirit.</div>
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My Big Girl.</div>
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Famle tree pic.</div>
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Francie telling Santa about her wish for a new pink doll stroller.</div>
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She insisted that Mama sit with her, too.</div>
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Santa, his sleigh and presents, and Rudolph with two other reindeer helpers.</div>
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That plush tree plays "Rockin Around the Xmas Tree" on repeat - thank goodness the batteries died.</div>
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Francie loves to wear my glasses and pretend to be Mama.</div>
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Her first short story? "Welcome to the dark forest."</div>
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Annual Menne Cookie Party with Finley, Dash, Logan, and Max.</div>
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Reindeer art from Maplewood School.</div>
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Saying "hi" to Baby Birdy.</div>
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'Tis the season. We love Xmas. And Elf.</div>
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Mila, Francie and purple donuts at Alpenrose.</div>
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Mila, Francie and Lincoln.</div>
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Dear Santa, This Christmas I am 5 years old. This year I have been nice. The three things I would like most this Christmas are: baby stroller, Madeline doll (from Michael's), and train set. Love, Francie Close</div>
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"tel your baby Hape Chrismis, Love, Francie"</div>
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Gingerbread houses! With Natalie, Francie, Breanna, Luke, Jack and Max.</div>
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Ms. Thomas kindergarten class, 2017-2018</div>
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All dolled up and ready for a Girls' Date with Mama, Mila and Morgan for a Teddy Bear Breakfast show.</div>
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Besties Francie and Mila.</div>
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Creepy teddy bear. At least the girls loved it!</div>
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Creepy elf.</div>
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Licking the container I had put the Xmas cookies in. Like father, like daughter. Like mother, like daughter.</div>
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Santa's workshop!</div>
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Meeting Baby Evie!</div>
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Francie in the knit mermaid tail and new knit hat from Shanon.</div>
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December 2017</div>
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Hope this Annual Close Holiday Letter finds you all happy and healthy!</div>
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Despite the long winter and many snow days in PDX, 2017 fired up Mr. Close - personally, professionally and politically. He found himself inspired by both passion and a generalized anxiety about the state of the world. In order to manage the agitation and “resist the Man,” he continues with many of his social justice ventures at West Linn High School and the community at large. And to keep things fun, he commutes by bike occasionally, plays indoor soccer weekly, ‘studies’ whisky with his teacher-friends monthly, and discovered his love of plunking away on his grandfather’s refurbished typewriter.</div>
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As for Joanna, let’s just say she’s ready to ring in 2018. Life has been more home-bound and sedentary than years past. She continues to enjoy her work as an adjunct at Pacific University, where she supervises speech-language pathology graduate students in memory care settings, and works on-call for a rehab hospital treating patients following stroke and traumatic brain injury. With a daughter now in school, she’s enjoyed volunteering in the classroom and looks forward to doing more of that. Her must-read book recommendations from the year include <i>Shrill </i>by Lindy West, W<i>e Are Never Meeting in Real Life</i> by Samantha Irby, and <i>Hunger </i>by Roxane Gay; her favorite movie of the year was <i>Bandaid</i>. </div>
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Francie is now 5 ½ years old and enjoying kindergarten (“recess is my favorite”) at our neighborhood school. Things she’s learned in 2017: to ride a Big Kid bike, snap, pump on our backyard swings, back float, all the words to the Moana soundtrack, how to regularly beat her parents at Uno, and “the robot dab.” She has demonstrated an unwavering love of Elsa and Wonder Woman, and a burgeoning interest in Star Wars. She is learning to read and write to the daily delight of her parents. She’s a total extravert but spends her solo playtime in creative pretend worlds drawing, with dolls, and lately, playing with a haggard old nativity set in which Baby Jesus is frequently the offspring of superhero parents defeating Bad Guys with swords. </div>
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While the Close Clan typically looks most forward to summer together, and the many adventures free time and sunshine bring, this June they embarked on an adventure of a different kind - (“geriatric”) pregnancy! A surprise, yes, but not an accident (yeah, yeah, don't talk about secondary infertility in public, it's taboo). The pregnancy has gone well so far, and Baby Birdy (not her real name) is due stateside Feb. 6. The news pretty much rocked our world, mostly by way of interminable fatigue and concern about remembering how to do it all again. Fortunately our current favorite child is gifted with grace, a wonderful sense of humor, and a way with words. </div>
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- "You're belly is gonna get so big. You're gonna turn into a fat lady. But it's not your fault. It's the baby's fault."</div>
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- “Does Bob Lynn Close sound like a good name for the baby?”</div>
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- “Once you get used to the baby it will be your favorite person also.”</div>
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- “Don't worry. Your love will just get bigger! Right now, my love fills the whole room. When Birdy is here my love will fill the whole house!"</div>
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Take care and many well wishes in 2018!</div>
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Alex (36), Joanna (35), Francie (5 ½ years), and Birdy (30-something week-old fetus)</div>
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P.S. This interweb version of our holiday letter has room for me to include some extra Francie quotes, for those who get as big of a kick as we do out of shit kids say ...</div>
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“Soooo, my preschool had 6 kids but my kindergarten with have 21 KIDS! That means I need to: 1) get out of pull-ups, 2) tie my own shoes, aaaaand 3) wipe my own butt!”</div>
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"Adults are better at getting all the poop off our butts because your necks are longer."</div>
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“This is how a robot does the dab.”</div>
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Monday morning eating cereal: “I wish my whole life was a weekend.”</div>
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“You know what I came over here to tell you? That I love you the most. And that I'll wipe your butt when you're old."</div>
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“I thought in my head, 'if I let my mom go meditate she won't be so mean.'”</div>
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“When you sweat it's like your face is CRYING."</div>
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Beebee: Do you know any dirty jokes?</div>
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Francie: Yeah! (Giggle giggle).</div>
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Mama: Oh yeah? Like what?</div>
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Francie: About mud!!</div>
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At Powell's, she spots one of the books by Mindy Kaling, with her photo on the cover.</div>
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F: Look! It's Mindy!</div>
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Me: Oh yeah, we really like her, don't we.</div>
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F: Yeah! She's our best friend that's on TV!</div>
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Out of the blue she touches my face: "I don't think you're old, I think you're just right."</div>
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“I think because I'm an Oregon girl, the sun chose to come out for my birthday.”</div>
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Sadly, on her 5th birthday: “I don't feel five. I feel like a person.”</div>
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Me: “You don't have to do it alone. But you have to use your words to tell us what you want. Not your whiny words, you big kid words. We can't read your mind.”</div>
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Francie, stopping the puzzle to address me directly: “But you can read my mind sometimes.”</div>
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Alex: "How about you go outside and play for a bit."</div>
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Francie: "No, I don't want to."</div>
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Me: "How about you go outside and find five things that start with the letter F."</div>
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Francie: "I did it! I found five things. Flowers. Fence. Fire pit. Fucket."</div>
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Me: "Uh, what's a fucket?"</div>
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F: "It's like a bucket. But with no handle."</div>
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Me, laughing: "But also, that's only four things."</div>
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F: Maybe every night you remember me you could read “the magic string.”</div>
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Me: I could never forget you.</div>
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F: Yeah, because you're nothing without me.</div>
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Throwing a fit one night before bed: “It's not hard to be tired, it's hard to be FIVE!”</div>
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"Ghostie did it … he likes to get into mischief.”</div>
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“She says she wishes she could live until you're a grownup. Until you're an old lady.”</div>
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She's been toying with jokes now for a couple years, but she FINALLY made up a good one!</div>
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"What does a coyote say when he gets a shot at the doctor."</div>
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"I dunno, what?"</div>
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"Owwwwwww, ow owwwwww."</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday evening, F sitting in my lap drawing in her notebook, me picking my nails and kissing on her, Alex playing the guitar. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); vertical-align: baseline;">"We have FAIRIES at our school! </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But a boy and his friends were destroying the fairies and their houses. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I asked him if he lost all his teeth yet. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said no. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I told him that he wouldn't get any gold coins because he basically just killed the tooth fairy."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Mama: Why might Ethiopians only eat with their right hand?</span></span></div>
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Mama and Daddy: "Uh, like what kind of lesson?"</div>
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Snow days and sledding. Multi-generational Women's March. Screen-free success for a month. Learning to: snap, ride a Big Kid bike, pump on the swings, dab. Superhero 5th birthday party. WLHS Unity Day. “Phucket.” Our Uno savant. Refurbished typewriter. Suncadia WR 2017 with hubs/families. Graduating pre-K. Cow Camp in Central OR and Family Camping at Timothy Lake. Summer swim lessons. Learning Birdy's a girl. George Rogers Park. Daily dress-up - Wonder Woman, Elsa, Moana, Dorothy, Minnie Mouse. Family bike rides. New backyard swing set. Near-total solar eclipse. Francie feeling Birdy kick. First carnival. Graduating Pre-K and starting Kindergarten at Maplewood. Manzanita with Jo's besties. Cirque du Soleil. OSU soccer alumni weekend. First sleepover away. Portugal the Man album. Francie's expertise implementing Montessori-type tasks with individuals with dementia. Unified soccer tourney. Visit from Telluride Hartmans and QT cousin time with Hazel. Erika’s new baby, Evie. A white Christmas in PDX with the whole Close Clan and Beebee. </div>
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The daily blows from the current administration. Feb/March illness. Racism. Spring Break stomach flus and subsequent panic. The Sisyphean task of grading English papers. The shock of pregnancy after three years if secondary infertility. First trimester fatigue. The Tahoe 4th that wasn't. A sedentary summer. National natural disasters. The 'geriatric' part of being pregnant at 35. Fires. More stomach flu. Louis CK & Matt Lauer. Net neutrality. Banned words. Iron-deficient anemia. Worries of a receding hairline. Bloody noses on bike commutes. The new tax plan.</div>
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Favorite park trees - if you look closely you can see that from left to right they are exactly positioned like stages of autumn - the ones on the far left is nearly out of its leaves, the one on the far right is still green, and everything in between is, well, in between</div>
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Cousin Hazel in town from Colorado!</div>
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Uncle B reading to the girls.</div>
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Cousin PJ play.</div>
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A day off from school and at the zoo.</div>
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Sweet cousin love.</div>
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Bathtime for Hazel and Francie.</div>
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Mama babysits - with the help of Moana.</div>
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Auntie Love!</div>
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B, Z, and Hazel took a trip to Cannon Beach.</div>
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Uncle Alex plays guitar for the girls post-bath time.</div>
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Somebody found a good hiding spot to eat another apple!</div>
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Apple eaters.</div>
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Matching dresses in the fall sunshine.</div>
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Hazel, Uncle B, Alex, Francie and Beebee</div>
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Cousin Moana cuddles</div>
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Pumpkin carving with my two loves</div>
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Painting a sugar skull from Beebee.</div>
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Halloween porch decor.</div>
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The "Pegasus unicorn" family</div>
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Francie and Hazel as unicorn cousins</div>
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And Beebee as the scariest monk ever; we even heard little kids who wouldn't come to the porch to get candy from him.</div>
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That time Francie literally "drew Mama a bath"</div>
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Fall "hike" - about 3 miles in the park off 45th on the way to the freeway</div>
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Comparing kindergarten school photos!</div>
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Francie's kindergarten school photo = perfection</div>
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Some morning work from Ms. Thomas's class.</div>
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Rachel and me enjoying our fancy hotel - and room service - at the ASHA conference in LA.</div>
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When we got to see, Katie, too!</div>
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And Miss Hannah May, too!!</div>
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Rach and Hannah at donuts (even though I was already on the plane taking my uncomfortable pregnant ass back to PDX).</div>
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Meanwhile, at home, Mimi and Papa helped Francie and Alex hold down the fort.</div>
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Francie met Moana and learned to hula at Thinker Toys in the Village.</div>
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Naps are kinda my jam. Thankfully Francie enjoys listening to audio stories so I can laze around.</div>
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A good reminder to calm my nerves about having kids 6 years apart.</div>
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This lady sure is wild and spunky.</div>
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And bound to be a feminist, thanks to her parents.</div>
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These are Francie's "emoji" drawings.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her, shouting back nonchalantly: “I dunno."</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her, shrugging: “I think he just got stolen by the bads or something.”</span></p></div>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-72239306077697423932017-10-23T16:28:00.002-07:002017-10-23T16:28:49.499-07:00(67 Months) - 5;7<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the morning she says she's too tired to want to do Soccer Shots or Art4Life, but every time I pick her up I have a hard time pulling her away from playing outside or just with friends.</span></div>
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Stroller Bike Gang = Grant, Caroline, Kennedy, Francie, Peter, Evan</div>
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Francie showing Peter how to play "family."</div>
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Children's Museum fun.</div>
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BuildABear at Washington Square, courtesy of Morgan for Mila's 6th birthday party.</div>
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First official sleepover/slumber party!</div>
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Meanwhile, Alex had his own slumber party with his fellow old man teammates at OSU for a reunion weekend. Looking good, guys!</div>
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Francie came home from her slumber party with pink dyed hair and an Elsa BuildABear.</div>
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And then she cuddled and napped in my arms!</div>
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I LOVE watching her learn to read/write, and her independent attempts at spelling such as this "Beanstalk" drawing.</div>
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Our latest family portrait, that black blob in my belly is Birdy.</div>
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She likes to sneak into my weekly pregnancy photos (about 22 or 23 weeks here).</div>
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Post flu-shot cake pop, crown and all.</div>
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Daddy cuddles.</div>
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The harvest.</div>
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I swear we went into Baker and Spice for just a slice of crumb cake. But this pregnant fatty was easily convinced by my Sugar Monster to just buy a whole cake instead.</div>
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Ms. Thomas's kinder class artwork.</div>
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More kinder artwork.</div>
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Take your daughter to work day - Francie with Lorraine and Alex.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead, the cogs in her brain already turning, she tells me: "Soooo, my preschool had six kids, but my kindergarten will have 25 kids! That means I need to learn to (she holds up one finger) get out of pull-ups, (holds up a second finger) tie my own shoes, aaaand (holds up three fingers) wipe my own butt!"</span></div>
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<br />Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-45496045032636915782017-08-26T10:54:00.001-07:002017-08-26T10:54:24.546-07:00(Stuff Alex Made) - New Front Door<img id="id_f03_4016_e967_44ad" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKPh2jW9brTwLdCe9kHodXxBChoIqSjeMxNrzrmOXzV_-cbUjNhXo9mfnWoTHZQoCgCCh8YNbOFj_XeeO0l75SxZ29X84Sx29JK_S9198yISNTA75pZQw2MI-Zz0Fun3aKHxRaTFr0dFY/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><div><br></div><div>Let there be light! In our tiny entryway! A neighbor told us the new door refreshed our house, like lipstick. All I could think was, 'like lipstick on a pig?!?' But seriously, aside from our house needing a new paint job, and freshly stained wood all around, I totally dig the new door. Alex and his dad worked days and days installing the new "craftsman," a birthday present to us from my in-laws, and even threw in a fancy sliding screen door that we have bets on how long until someone (Beebee) walks right through it. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_94f8_d033_dae9_c16b" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiazgTxijPZjf_I9XoxhCP8miEjEQVbIiq5lu56yTR0p3rqYsqcK4n6qOH9N6XetlczErshoS4HeULXz_kJ3rM2tL8P0UCsyvEe1EfUejbj5VN9J5PKPf5qDsN78meZVG5X2Z77Pl2xTxo/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br><img id="id_2cc5_f08c_1195_4d46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMWrmlWnKzJi4nOljoYXdqbVQG6WoylFZ5jy0MpisEBb1ms1XXvOzQNlA0fmCenz31iQMWHbkqOmrnVWRsLZrUntpA-yZXVQa56VVQDwJsDWTznpBY3dQ94J8_dWVrcsjH0ueT6FTaZPg/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 392px; height: auto;"><br><br></div>Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-57540083093125739292017-08-21T19:40:00.003-07:002017-08-21T19:40:51.909-07:00(65 Months) - 5; 5<br />
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5;5 as of August 19th, and I have a new iPhone 7 Plus to boot - the tragic thing is just now, literally just now, I made the mistake of "restoring" my new iPhone from the backup of my old iPhone without first backing up the <i>new</i> iPhone photos/video/data that I'd acquired in the 3+ weeks since I got the new phone. Needless to say, I'm having something of an existential millennial crisis. So yeah, the only photos I have are ones I cobbled together from texts I had sent Alex and the BFFs. Fortunately I kept note of at least a few anecdotes in Google Docs, which apparently is immune to my vulnerability for Apple data disasters.<br />
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This month included finishing up swim class at Wilson Pool, and she continues to love being in the water. Alex and Francie camped for a total of 2 weeks in July - one week at Cow Camp with the Franzke Clan, and another week with me in tow up at Timothy Lake for Family Camping. Alex built a swingset in the backyard. Temperatures reached 100+ degrees in Portland. We learned Baby Dos is a GIRL, who maintains the nickname "Bob" regardless of sex, and who Francie wants to name Rose, Rosie, or Rosita. Francie upgraded from the small pinb Big Kid Bike to the larger purple one, giving her much more independence to go up bigger hills and further distances, and now we can take family bike rides to Hideaway Park and Garden Home Rec Center; next stop: Faraway Park. "Ghostie" is to blame for many things, including farts, moved objects, or even just to keep someone company in the front seat. In addition to biking on the regular, we pirated the Hubbard's boat for a paddle down part of the Willamette and shot arrows with Beebee at the archery range in Washington Park. And we also enjoyed a nice visit from Mimi and Papa, including being spoiled with a beautiful new front door that a neighbor said "really dresses the house up, like lipstick." We play Uno what feels like 24/7, and we've come to think of Francie as a bit of an Uno Savant.<br />
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Sixty four months here - that's 5 years <complete id="goog_918403653">+ </complete>4 months as of July 19 - and yes, somebody is excited to be a BIG SISTER! That sonogram picture she's holding is of Baby Close Dos, due Feb. 6, 2018. We had a few iterations of Francie's monthly photo, tiger suit and all, so sorry for the over-post. Five years old continues to be a lot like Portland in the springtime - unexpected weather leaving you soaking wet and worn out, or in awe of the beauty that is the PNW. She's 98% sweet as pie, with a mean streak that <i>seems</i> correlated with sugar, bedtime, genetics, or general FOMO. In fact, she's a bit like a gremlin in so many ways. Posted below are photos from June 20-July19, as well as some of the things I wrote down from the month ...<br />
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Besties at Cook Park</div>
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Mila and Francie, so much purple, pink, sugar and spice</div>
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The lentil!</div>
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Alex away at GWAC camping, Mama and Francie cuddle on the couch and watch a grown-up movie until almost 11 p.m.</div>
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Tigard balloon festival at Cook Park with the Hubbards</div>
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First carnival ride!</div>
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Haunted house with Francie and Lincoln</div>
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She's tall enough for this one!</div>
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Brave girl! She might be a sensation seeker ...</div>
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First and only evening I felt good in all of June</div>
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George Rogers Park</div>
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Stairway to Heaven??</div>
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Donut look so crabby, Bean.</div>
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Summer family QT.</div>
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I had this shirt - one just like mine and Alex's from when she was born - made three years ago, the summer of 2014 when we first started trying for Baby #2. "And my wolf pack, it grew by one."</div>
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And this onesie for Baby #2 (with an embarrassing spelling error) - "Four of us wolves, running around the desert together, looking for strippers and cocaine." This was going to be my way that I told Alex about being pregnant. Fast forward 3+ years and I finally squeezed Francie into her 2T shirt.</div>
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Loves making books, and then "reading" the stories</div>
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It was hot. I was pregnant. And craving red meat. Brewpub burgers to the rescue!</div>
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Our Big Girl finished her time at VHFLC, where she has been in daycare since she was 2.5 years old.</div>
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After the 4th of July that wasn't, we set up camp in the living room.</div>
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Family fro-yo date to beat the heat ( ice cream from across the street, for Mama).</div>
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SOMEbody need more parental guidance for emotional regulation. Then again, I think she chose the wrong family for modeling a slow boil anger.</div>
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Francie inherited my old point and shoot digital camera, and we set out for a neighborhood "Nature Photo Scavenger Hunt."</div>
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Maplewood sure rocked the first annual 4th of July kid parade. I had no idea so many people stayed in town over the holiday!</div>
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Wilson open swim with my best girl.</div>
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Aunt Mary Ann visited from Vegas.</div>
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Alberta Street Fair meant SHAVED ICE!</div>
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Summer berry picking - raspberries and blueberries.</div>
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Alberta Street Fair.</div>
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Trying to embody the African mamas from the "Babies" movie.</div>
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Wilson Pool "otter" swim class.</div>
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Reading with Patti at Baker & Spice.</div>
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Cheesin' with Shannon at Baker & Spice.</div>
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fancy dresses for special occasions, and her devotion to being a professional ambulance driver!</div>
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Our sweet Bean finished up her time at Vermont Hills at St. Luke's last month, where she has been in childcare since she was 2.5 years old. They have taken great care of her, and we've been really pleased with our whole daycare/preschool experience. She had Teacher Josh and Teacher Katie in the toddler room, Teacher Liz for preschool, and Teacher Joann for preK. I remember being SO anxious about sending her to daycare, which she didn't even have to start until she was 18 months (between my maternity leave, Alex off in the summers, a few months of me without work, then just part-time work, my dad, my inlaws, and my BFF Rach, we cobbled together enough care to keep her with a known loved one until Fall 2013). If I knew then what I know now, it's that Francie would LOVE being in a social, learning environment, and that she'd flourish in her variety of environments.<br />
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A couple weeks before her last day, VHFLC has an end-of-the-year potluck and graduation ceremony, where Teacher Joann gave each family a little PreK scrapbook and shared nice things about each of the "graduates." No surprise here, but I LOVE to hear alternative perspectives of my child, particularly with regard to a setting where I don't ever have the opportunity to observe her naturally. Joann commented on Francie's love for playing "family" with her friends, drawing and painting, making maps and books, singing, her sense of humor, and her love for listening to stories and making comments. She insisted on wearing the Elsa dress Mila gave her to the graduation "party," I think in part because they weren't really allowed to wear costumes or distracting clothing or accessories to school on a regular basis. She beamed, played with each of her friends, at the cupcakes we baked, and the other parents told us how much their kiddo would miss Francine.<br />
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From L to R: program director Adina, Addison with her mom, Asher, Adissa, Francie, Anders, Owen (who will also be attending Maplewood for kindergarten next year, and Teacher Joann.</div>
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Francie and Teacher Joann</div>
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The short video of Teacher Joann's words about Francie can be seen at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnqaUwijif0&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">this link</a>, or embedded below:<br />
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In June I not only took a writing class and wrote in the company of others, but I even shared - aloud - a brief something that I had written. That was a first for me, and the only concrete goal accomplished during my weekend "intensive" memoir writing class at Literary Arts in downtown PDX, where we boasted a stellar view of the Rose Parade (if I were the kinda person who maybe liked crowds and parades and urban festivities, but at least didn't <i>hate</i> them). Suffice it to say I was homicidal attempting to park the car, already running late and without a notebook to speak of, of course, on Saturday morning.<br />
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The first time the dozen or so of us were invited to share a sentence or two of what we'd written, I was the only one to "pass." I liken reading aloud to opening a present, or worse, reading a sentimental card, in front of a group of people who aren't even eating cake or drinking champagne but are staring, watching, waiting, for a one-woman show. But I did promise myself that I would share at some point during the weekend. Although I didn't actively volunteer to read my work aloud, I did share the following during our final "read around":<br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-cb2ed1f7-a3c2-0c64-04ad-179adcbab9ed"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Somewhere else inland in Costa Rica, maybe near Volcan Arenal, we took a river rafting tour where we met some comparably aged guides, whose names totally escape me now. I could look all these anecdotes up, actually, because Stacy kept a detailed log of all the things during our travels that Spring off-season. I’m sure I have it tucked away in one of my “Save Boxes,” stored away in a plastic Target bag or a manila envelope with “2005” scribbled on it in black Sharpie. My own memory fails me so regularly, I am grateful for my periods of obsessive archiving, or that Stac typed and printed an entire booklet of our memories from our travels abroad. Without those documented anecdotes or the hundreds of unorganized photos my memories, nearly 15 years later, bear little resemblance to the actual, factual experiences, and are more like memes than memories now. As with the river guides and the Rasta Curtain (pronounced "ker-tane"). What I do recall is being out late at night, filled with vodka and confidence and giggles, in a rougher part of a town whose name I wouldn’t even recognize if I saw it on a map, walking to the place these river guides – one of whom we nicknamed something about a snake or serpent – called home. We had been out at a club with them, drinking who knows what cocktails, with god knows how many calories, and then all went home together, with the ease and naivety unique to adventure-seeking 20-somethings on vacation in a foreign land."</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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It's out of context, of course, both on the page and aloud, and isn't related to anything in particular that I'm working on. Then again, I'm not "working on" anything. While I have no qualms writing things that people may or may not read, there is something safe in the silence of writing and the silence of reading. Reading aloud? Not so much. That kind of exposure feels just too naked (it reminds me of a scene from a movie I have since otherwise forgotten, a scene I once both loved and loathed - a woman made her lover circle the parts of her naked body with a permanent marker that he would change).<br />
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One of the things the teacher, <a href="http://hawthornebooks.com/catalogue/wedlocked" target="_blank">Jay Ponteri</a> (an instructor at Literary Arts, a teacher/department head at Marylhurst, and an award-winning author who confirmed to me that he did not earn any money from his book) repeated throughout the weekend was this notion about "receiving." Re-reading what you've written to "receive" your work. Sharing aloud to "receive." The irony is that "receiving" is a theme that's been coming up in my regular life, too - it started at Unitarian church last Fall, and continues into my therapy, too. During the UU service, after the offering basket goes around, the congregation says in unison this "Affirmation of Gratitude and Giving." For most of my early visits to the church, this affirmation made me choke up, something about being grateful for our own needs, allowing others to give to us. Receive.<br />
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<i>Let us be grateful when we are able to give</i></div>
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<i>for many do not have that privilege.</i></div>
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<i>Let us be grateful for all those who share their gifts with us</i></div>
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<i>for we are enriched by their giving.</i></div>
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<i>so that we may learn from the generosity of others.</i></div>
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But I digress. The point here is simply to document, and I suppose share, my participation in this weekend writing class. Fingers crossed it inspires something in me, but I fear it will fall short, as it took me some 4 days and multiple attempts to even pull together this mosaic of a blog entry.Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-15050694725605451812017-06-22T10:52:00.001-07:002017-07-27T11:52:33.107-07:00(63 Months) - 5;3<div style="text-align: center;">
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June brought us a 5 year + 3 month old, and some other big news, too. Posted below are the quotes, anecdotes and photos from May 20 to June 19, 2017:</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alex: I like asparagus</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Francie: Me too</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alex: But it's not your favorite?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Francie: No.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alex: What is your---</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Francie: Mac and cheese. And honey, is my favorite.</span></div>
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Women's Retreat 2017, Suncadia, WA</div>
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Family pool day</div>
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Much needed Vitamin D. And snacks.</div>
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Pool towel picnic.</div>
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Silly girls.</div>
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Maui hook necklace from Mimi and Papa from Hawaii.</div>
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Rawr. Killer tiger suit, thanks to Erika.</div>
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Wonder Woman visits Mr. Close at WLHS.</div>
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Teacher's pet.</div>
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Gawd, high schoolers seem like such <i>kids</i>.</div>
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Cinderella, is that you? So Logan is the charmiest of princes ...</div>
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I love how much her art has changed in one year's time! Family portrait 2016 versus 2017.</div>
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Alex's WL United students made a shirt for our Bean, too.</div>
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Pool playdate with Charlie and Iris.</div>
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Hammock "cocoon" in the lazy summers days with my best girl.</div>
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Playdate at the Children's Museum with Mila. Girl power!</div>
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Best Mama Day at Baker and Spice.</div>
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Miss Finley turns 1!</div>
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Neighborhood walks/bike rides.</div>
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And the there were four?!?</div>
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My first trimester sentiments ...</div>
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Mr. Close's students are funny.</div>
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Not that she can actually read, but I love that she's even interested in chapter books with few pictures, and feigns reading like a grown-up!</div>
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Oh queso, how you appear so infrequently but with such commitment to certain times in my life. You, too, salami.</div>
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PreK graduation!</div>
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Francine and Teacher Joann.</div>
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Flamily couch cuddles.</div>
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Father's Day at the Rose Garden.</div>
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Lazy summer Sunday feels.</div>
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"Let's take a selfie."</div>
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My favorite little lady.</div>
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Happy Father's Day, to these two super-dads.</div>
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One of her headscarf inspirations.</div>
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The sweetest of emails from a former Southridge student of Alex's. My heart swells to think of how many other kids have felt this way about him, too.</div>
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<br />Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-54340020523209641002017-06-06T14:00:00.000-07:002017-06-06T14:00:33.496-07:00(Just Pics) - WR 2017: Suncadia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For this year's Women's Retreat - an annual reunion with four of my closest college girlfriends and, this year, their families - we met in Suncadia, Washington, just outside Cle Elum and Roslyn, Washington. We heard it was "the Sunriver of Washington," and with Gretch not too far away in Yakima, she scoped it out for us and got us booked with a huge house just minutes from the playground. We had a wonderful long weekend all together - 5 Logger Ladies, each of our husbands, and a total of 10 kids in tow. We came together this year from Yakima, Big Sky, Denver, Eugene, and Portland. There was lots of scooting and biking, many trips to the playground, golfing, mountain biking, coffee drinking, walking and running, an afternoon at the pool, cooking, napping, singing Moana, matching shirts, and, of course, photos.<br />
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Our Big Girl is officially rising her Big Kid Bike. Santa brought her the pedal bike for Xmas; she was able to quickly learn how to get started pedaling and the basics of braking this winter on the blacktop of the elementary school. But as of this weekend, she is riding her bike around the neighborhood, up and down hills, with or without cars on the road, with occasional pushes from her daddy, or reminders about coasting versus full-on braking. The funniest part is that she woke up Saturday morning declining to give the Big Kid Bike a shot again. She had developed an aversion since she last rode it, and although I don't love to use bribery, it is in my parenting bag-o-tricks. And this time it worked like a charm. </div>
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"I have a treat for you," I told her Saturday morning. I have a lollipop that I bought myself back when we drove to Suncadia, and I'll give it to you if you <i>try </i>riding your bike with Daddy today."</div>
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"Okay, it's all yours. But only if you commit to trying and practicing riding your bike with Daddy at the Big Kid school. You don't have to do anything special on the bike. The lollipop is for trying. And Daddy can help you however you need, eve if you want him to hold on the whole time."</div>
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"Okay! I'll ride my bike. Can I have my lollipop now?"</div>
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"Ha, nice try. You wouldn't be allowed to eat it in the morning anyway. But also, you have to earn it first. And I know you get it, so I'm going to tell you again for my sake, not yours, why I'm giving you candy. You earn the lollipop for <i>trying</i> and <i>practicing</i>. The thing is, Daddy and I both already know that you can ride your bike, that you've done it lots of time before. But for some reason you've become a bit afraid. And I think if you can just get over the hump of being nervous, you're gonna love riding your bike, and the treat will actually be the bike riding itself, not the lollipop. Although it's chocolate, so I'm sure you'll like that too," I tell her, kissing her forehead.</div>
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As predicted, she takes to it immediately. She's a bit unconfident at first, sure, but we also spend some time talking to her about how she can use her words to tell Daddy exactly what she might be feeling (scared, nervous, unconfident), and exactly what she needs from him (hold my seat, help me get started, run with me). By the end of the weekend, she's riding laps around the neighborhood, even up the big hill from the park to our house.</div>
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Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-77150897655548891792017-06-03T18:11:00.004-07:002017-06-03T18:11:47.543-07:00(Stuff Jo Made) - "Moana Dress"As someone irrationally and inconsistently opposed to "characters," I have successfully tricked my child into adapting a broader sense of dress-up. Case in point, her new "Moana dress." Does it look like she is dressed up in a Moana costume? Nope. But the fabric is Hawaiian print that Francie chose herself, has no "sleeves" (or straps), and is "long but not too long" hitting her below the knees, and she's not wearing shoes "because island people don't have to wear shoes because there's no dirt." Moana dress, mission accomplished. And after the fabric was selected, measured and cut, purchased, and washed, it took a total of 20 minutes - in the company of "Moana" herself no less - to thrill my Island Girl and catch the "How Far I'll Go" earworm.<br />
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Joannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634142627588677338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-487233505299482679.post-51837275588937608372017-06-01T23:40:00.002-07:002017-07-26T17:28:41.190-07:00(62 Months) - 5;2<br />
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Cheers! Nobody likes a holiday, any holiday, like this girl does. She's all about celebrating anyone for any reason - as long as it includes food or dessert or presents!</div>
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Out to dinner for Alex's 36th bday.</div>
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The trucker hat she drew for h im</div>
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The other trucker hat + the grown-up bib we made for Alex's bday.</div>
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2007/2017 ---> Alex's 26th/Alex's 36th birthdays</div>
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Maplewood re-opened their back room and started serving food!</div>
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My Wonder Woman.</div>
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Appreciating nature's "wonders" on Earth Day.</div>
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Inspired by the Lorax - "Unless ..."</div>
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On a nature walk with Daddy</div>
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Spotted a trillium, one of my recent favorite flowers</div>
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Our latest family portrait</div>
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Sunny Saturday strolls through Gabriel Park</div>
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Mama Day picnic at Gabriel Park</div>
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No Rhody Garden for me on Mother's Day this year, but the rhodies at Gabriel Park were in full bloom. As was Aunt Ida.</div>
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Visiting Grandma Nancy on Mother's Day at Mary S. Young.</div>
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The Bean's first (and last) discman. I even bought it new, which I didn't realize one could still do.</div>
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Visiting Grandma Nancy at her rock/bench at Mary S. Young State Park</div>
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Mother's Day is often a pensive, if not outright emotional, holiday for me. But also one of my very favorites; there is little this 30-something loves more than taking the time to celebrate my role as "mama." This year I found myself thinking about my own mom (obvi), my "One Hit Wonder" of a daughter and my secondary infertility, and also about the "momtors" (mom + mentor) throughout my life that I have been so lucky to know. Women who have been wonderful mothers to their own children, but also warm and gracious and nurturing and something of a maternal figure to me, too. Geri Grasvik, Patti O'Mara, Cindy Worth, Marilyn Jackson, Aunt Sue, to name only a few. My own girlfriends, including my BFFs; my gratitude for observing them as not only friends and daughters and sisters and wives, but now mothers, too. We all know that raising children takes a village, and sometimes the best "help" we receive is in the form of good modeling, or an open and accepting ear to bitch about your kid.</div>
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Francie painted me this vase at school, and her daddy helped her narrow down the 5 things she loves about her mama, including my kisses, laying together and snuggling/chatting at bedtime, helping (??), watching grown-up TV together on Mama Days, and having picnic lunch dates at the park.</div>
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If you asked, I wouldn't have named the board game "Life" as one of my top activities of choice for Mother's Day, but this girl's enthusiasm for all things holiday - and the best mocha in town from Maplewood Coffee - makes even the Game of Life as much fun as winning $20 grand in a hypothetical skateboard contest.</div>
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Mary S. Young - one of my most sacred places, and where I've spent days if not weeks of my adolescence running on these trails</div>
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On the inside is an inscription, which I am 85% confident is in my childhood handwriting. "A mom is someone who is always there to help, never gets the last word in an argument, who is good looking and delightful to be around. She's like a wall which protects her children. That's what I think a mom is." I'm 92% sure I plagiarized that analogy about the wall from right inside the book itself. Then again, it was awfully gracious of me to call my own mom "good looking" and to acknowledge that she allowed me the last word in arguments.</div>
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For Alex's birthday in April, in an attempt to be 1) thrifty, 2) crafty, and 3) funny, I/Francie made him two new trucker hats, and a "grownup bib." For the hats, I meticulously researched all the graffiti-type artists and their elaborate methods and specific paint pen preferences. The thing is, the hats just look like we used Sharpies. What I did do, though, was have Francie use one of those evaporating pens used in marking fabric for sewing to draw her design directly on to each of the hats, and then I went over her lines with the fancy-paint-pen-that-looks-like-a-Sharpie. I was also supposed to spray the hat in some kind of a sealant, but I just didn't feel like it. As for the "grownup bib," I was inspired by none other than my friend Bob at Cornell Estates. Apparently, walker bags and adult bibs are all the rage in retirement and assisted living facilities, and I thought I was just the funniest by making one for my very own old man on his 36th birthday, in bacon fabric and all.</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall, March was a tough month at the Closeman Residence, encompassing both her 5;0 and 5;1 months of life - on the heels of being sick for weeks, we contracted yet another illness, this time of the GI variety. Spring Break was more like Spring (Mama Has A) Break(down). Our Bean was first, thanks to preschoolers and their poor hand hygiene. The Friday after her birthday/before Spring Break I received that dreaded call from daycare - "Francie is sick. She's okay right now, but she just threw up." Turns out, she barfed all over the table and carpeted floor in front of everyone, which didn't seem to bother her much. She recovered quickly, but </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">then Alex came down with a sudden-onset of The Noro, and I, in turn, came down with a sudden-onset Meltdown of Epic Proportions - one that included a two-night hotel stay, many tears, and gratitude to the inventor of Ativan. And in true Francie fashion, she had a blast on our "trip" to the hotel, where she indulged in buffet b-fasts, swam multiple times per day, got to go in a hot tub (because she's not an infant or elderly, "like Beebee"), and watch hours of the Disney channel while eating goldfish crackers in a king-sized bed.</span><br />
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5 yo well-child checkup: weight = 36 lbs, height = almost 3'6"</div>
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Hearing and vision screen for KINDERGARTEN THIS FALL!</div>
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Finished her woodworking class at Multnomah Arts Center, where Beebee took her on Tuesdays, and she made this chalkboard, using woodworking tools and all.</div>
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We found ourselves neglecting brushing her hair too often, so naturally, made a chart for it.</div>
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When you're sent home from school for barfing all over the classroom, but your mom has a a phobia of puke.</div>
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She keeps writing things to us addressed as "Alex and Mama," like he's her step-dad or something.</div>
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Superheroes and magnet tiles</div>
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And because what 5 year-old isn't obsessed with their initials?</div>
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Despite illness, Alex still managed to make/finish this wooden dollhouse for Francie (and her superheroes, because they don't need stairs)</div>
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Spring Break Hotel Staycation - more fun in photos than it felt in person</div>
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"Daddy, you know what you should do with your mustache? You have to twist it more riiiiight here."</div>
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A portrait of Laura</div>
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The Stache and Little Miss Sunshine</div>
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BFF playdate with Mila</div>
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Adam visits from Chicago!</div>
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Pretending to be Mama: glasses, slippers, and doing chores. I can't decide if I'm flattered or offended that my life can be distilled so easily and in such terms.</div>
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Maui and Moana on the open seas</div>
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Mama's 35th Birthday dinner out</div>
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Napoleon Dynamite anyone? How is it she turned from Little Miss Sunshine into Debbie from Preston, Idaho?</div>
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Francie's veggie garden</div>
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Maplewood re-opens its back room!</div>
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Obsessed with "playing with my fancy shoes." "What shoes would look the best with this dress? Pretend I'm going to a wedding. No, to dinner after I work." "But Mama, why don't you ever wear high heels?"</div>
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Alex was laying in bed with Francie last night, after reading her a new book - <i>What Do You Do With An Idea</i>, from Adam - while I was finishing up stretching after 30 minutes on the elliptical, washing my hands, and getting ready for my turn to put our Bean to bed. From my room, I could hear them whispering about something, and smiled to myself. When I walked into Francie's bedroom to see them cuddling together in her Frozen sheets she said to me, "We're not talking about anything." I laughed that laugh that reminds me of my mom - one of the very few ways, sadly, she remains a part of my adult life - the chuckle that somehow transports me through generations and roles, that of mother daughter, 1980s, 2017. The reflexive gigle when my heart is just so tickled by the mind of my growing girl.<br />
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I then tell Alex about yesterday morning, that when I was headed downstairs after getting ready for work, Francie rushed ahead of me and closed my office door.<br />
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"You know I have to go in there this morning, right? All my stuff is in there, like my work stuff and my purse."<br />
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"Oh, okay," she says, opening the office door and then leading me in the room. "Just don't look inside this door," she says, gesturing to one of the three plastic drawers that Alex has been relegated to in 'my' office.<br />
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I giggle, tickled by her adorably misguided efforts to "surprise" me on my birthday today.<br />
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Last night, as I'm tucking her in I tell her, "I adore how you want to make me feel special on my birthday. But no present you give me or even card you make for me will be as nice as just knowing and seeing how hard you've tried."<br />
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After reading her a Fancy Nancy book, and then answering her myriad random questions - about the bedtime CD playing, whether it's the African Dreamland CD or the regular Dreamland CD, what language they speak in Africa, how they learn to speak that language in Africa, about the weather forecast, why I'm not having friends over for a party, why Daddy probably won't have friends over for his birthday, how mermaids swim and breathe under water - I squeeze her tight and ask her to "wake me up like this in the morning" - I kiss her cheek softly.<br />
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"Daddy said not to wake you up in the morning."<br />
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"Oh, that's sweet. But that's okay, you can wake me up."<br />
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"Daddy said to let you sleep in because it's your birthday. And he can take me to school."<br />
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"Ok, well I'll check in with Daddy about that, but I do know for sure that I want to see you both in the morning, so wake me up with a sweet birthday kiss, even if he does take you to school."<br />
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This morning my alarm went off at 6:40 a.m., even though I planned ahead of time to snooze several times and only get out of bed when I actually felt like it. But also, I didn't want my free "Me Day" to pass right on by. Francie does indeed wake me with sweet kisses and she and Alex softly sing me "Happy Birthday." And then she sings it to me on two more separate occasions. I'm just so smitten with her excitement for my birthday, her energy is contagious. I think I'm smiling in my sleep.<br />
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"Bye babe, hope you have a really nice day," Alex says kissing me, his face again smooth-ish; he <i>finally</i> shaved off the beard-turned-Chester-stache.<br />
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"I love you guys," I tell them from my pillow, my eyes still heavy with sleep. They finish up brushing their teeth and are ready to leave for daycare/work.<br />
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"Ooh, you're breath is stanky," Alex tells me, sweetly insulting. "You smell like an old lady," he teases.<br />
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I lay in bed, half sleeping, half daydreaming about how to spend my "Me Day." I fantasize about a delicious hot mocha appearing on my doorstep, and think about how nice it might be to drink coffee and do a Monday or Tuesday New York Times crossword puzzle. About going for a "hike" in Forest Park. I think about whether I should hit up a movie this afternoon, or Powell's, or a coffeeshop with the freedom to read or write whatever I damn well feel like. Maybe I should go spend the $150 I have to Nordstrom. Just this week I started wondering if I might want another tattoo. Triangles seem particularly significant lately, but I'm no fan of the "branded" type markings I already have.<br />
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When I finally peel myself out of bed, at 7:30 or so, I spot a sweet note taped to the mirror. "You are beautiful," it tells me and I notice that I might still be smiling from when my Bean woke me. I pad downstairs and there is another note at my place at the table. "Happy birthday, cupcake," says the front, a picture of an elephant in a party hat holding a cupcake with its trunk. "I am SO glad you were born. Today is a day to celebrate yourself. You ARE worth it. I hope your birthday is filled with peace and self-love. I love you." My heart feels full, and my chest expansive, just the way they describe it in books. I don't feel this way often, but when I do, I am so aware of and astounded by the physiological sensations that represent these nearly-overwhelming surges of emotion.<br />
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I think about how I'm not the picture of the 35 year old that I briefly fantasized about being this winter (but obviously did nothing about). I didn't put myself on a restrictive diet and prioritize my fitness. No one on Instagram is going to compliment my "new" body or killer triceps. I didn't stop picking my face to ring in my new year with clear skin. I still prefer comfortable clothes over flattering or fashionable ones (thank god for 'athleisure').<br />
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I am fully aware that I am not always the easiest person to love. That even when loving me one way works one time, there's no guarantee it'll work again another time. That more often than not my own self-loathing trumps another's caring and affection. That I am an expert wall-builder and insist 97% of the time that we all are, in fact, islands. But today, I am SO fucking grateful to have two people in my life that despite the poor odds of their ability to make me feel special and loved, they keep trying and trying and trying again. And then, when it works, like this morning, I feel high as a kite, floating on their nearly unconditional love and devotion.<br />
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And then my oldest friend surprised me at home - still in my PJ's - with a vase of purple tulips and thoughtful card, and my heart, yet again, feels so full.<br />
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I walk 7 miles in Forest Park, listening to music on my iPhone, and take notice of the little gifts from Mother Nature - the tiny snail with its shell unblemished. The red and black striped caterpillar that I recall 'catching' as a kid. The small waterfalls on the hillside. A cloudy, but rainless, sky. The fresh smell of Spring. The sing-song of faraway birds.<br />
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I take myself to lunch at Kenny and Zukes - a toasted sesame bagel with plain cream cheese, cucumber, and tomato - and get it to-go, as there is just enough time to arrive a tad early for an afternoon movie at Fox Tower. I enjoy the British film, only one other person in the audience, and stroll around Nordstrom, looking for inspiration on how to spend a gift certificate.<br />
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Dinner out with Alex, Francie, and my dad at Oak and Olive in Hillsdale, capping off too much garlic and the to-be-expected stomachache with dessert. I open sweet cards from them, and the REI presents I got last weekend on my dad's dividend. The present that Alex and Francie ordered online for me us yet to arrive by mail. At home, my dad offers us all the macaroons he and Francie baked, encourages me to get a beverage of my choice and to curl up on the couch. I'm kinda tired, got my fill of family time, and am ready to watch that <i>Life in Pieces</i> show I discovered on Netflix that makes me occasionally laugh out loud. Instead, Alex pulls up on his phone a video from Dropbox and Airplays it to the television - I am sweetly surprised by my dad's generous creation of a "35th birthday shout-out video." I see friends and family from a breadth of my life experiences - my parents' friends, a preschool girlfriend, West Linn, UPS, Telluride, Tahoe, my husband, dad, brother, BFFs, daughter. People saying, simply, "Happy Birthday," and those sharing memories of us together. I'm surprised that I don't feel overly emotional, and aware that a large part of me would much rather be alone watching this montage of my 35 years - but the grown-up part of me is damned grateful I have three people who love me dearly to watch this with. And I'm tickled that my curmudgeonly father spent many hours and frustrations putting this all together for me.<br />
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The best gift, I admit, is letting my daughter eat too much sugar and stay up too late, and then fall asleep under a plush blanket next to me on the couch. No music. No tv. No iphone. Just my best girl, the only time she's still, and the soft sound of her breathing, snuggled up against me. I linger here, already feeling nostalgic about and longing for this moment.<br />
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