Since our family is partially Danish, mostly me, and I am the bossy one- we celebrate our Christmas on Christmas Eve.This was written into our wedding vows. We put on our fancy clothes, eat duck with red cabbage, sweetened potatoes and drink red wine. Well, the kids drink milk. Then we dance around the...
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Okay, since this is my first annual list, does it qualify as annual?
Also, to my much younger readers; I realize that many of the subjects below, who have made it on to my extremely influential annual Habeshahouse Hot and Not list, may or may not have been OUT or IN years ago. I...
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A few years ago my mom came from Belgium to stay with us and she brought this DVD ‘Live and Become’. It is a complex, wonderful and thought provoking film about a young Ethiopian boy, Schlomo, who is forced to leave his Christian birth mother behind in a Sudanese refugee camp during the...
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Friday, December 12, 2008 Posted in Home life
(Not really me, but she does bear an uncanny resemblance to me from that particular angle)
Okay, Okay I will take a break from my blogging hiatus to fill you in on what we have been up to in the past month or so. Should I start with our fabulous Thanksgiving break spent in the Bahamas?...
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I have a house full of sick kids and this has been making them laugh over and over and over and over again all day long. The kids had no idea that we were all such a great dancers.
Send your own ElfYourself eCards
Day 2 and still watching it
20 minutes later
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In anticipation of World Aids Day on Monday- I invite you to take this quiz to see how much you know about the impact the HIV/AIDS pandemic is having globally. I hope that the current global economic crisis will not cause a decrease in the funding/research that helps fight and treat this disease. The poorer...
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After devouring half of our 13 lb turkey, R stated that she was thankful for turkey, having a mom and dad, grandparents, a dog, cousins, aunts, uncles, Camp Rock, her teacher, and music. In that order. When it was J’s turn she also said that she was thankful for having a mom and dad, and...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Posted in Home life
Wow….Since the end of the presidential race, I have been completely devoid of things to blog about.
What is that old saying? ‘If you don’t have anything to blog about, for the love of God, don’t blog!!’
I think I might have just made that up- besides I rarely follow my own advice. So...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008 Posted in J
Here is our big girl J- who has been bouncing into our bed at the crack of dawn each morning this past week to ask if today perhaps was the day that she would become five years old. Her coveted birthday finally came yesterday, it was the longest week of her life, I am sure....
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My workday started at 8 am Tuesday morning and ended last night at 8 pm. Needless to say I am having trouble gathering my thoughts or forming coherent sentences right now. Cindy exactly captures my post-election night thoughts and writes about them more eloquently than I ever could- please read her smart post here.
I think...
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