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Our first visitors have arrived, and we couldn’t be more excited! Quinton & I went to Gatwick to pick up my parents this morning, and aside from being very tired they seem to have made the trip just fine. They will be here for two weeks, and it feels so good to have [...]

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Yes, good thing DO come to those who wait. I went to a self-practice ashtanga yoga class this morning at Yoga Junction in Finsbury Park. Thank you, Dan, for managing the morning boy routine so I could go. Only a five minute walk and a five minute bus ride away. My [...]

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Eating the Bella Fantasie
Originally uploaded by dsmithsteeves
Last night we all felt well enough, barely, to head out for dinner. We went to Pizza Bella, a Crouch End restaurant recommended by our babysitter David. This is a new fav of ours (sorry Mauro!), with pizza that is the best I’ve ever had, accompanied by [...]

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Ugh. We all have colds, and it feels like it has been forever. The boys started about three weeks ago with something going around school, and then Dan shared some lovely bug from the office. I thought my super-duper immune system had fended it off, but alas, I have succumb. It’s [...]

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Rox the Elephant, Iggle Piggle & Lambie Lou
Originally uploaded by dsmithsteeves

Rox the Elephant, Iggle Piggle and Lambie Lou. Don’t hate them because they’re beautiful and their names are fab. And you’re not allowed to laugh because Iggle Piggle’s ears make him look like he’s going to take off or because Lambie Lou, poor [...]

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Michelle at Yoga House
Originally uploaded by dsmithsteeves

We all know that I love my yoga. Very specifically, my yoga at Yoga House with Margaret. Being the dense metropolis that it is, I assumed there would practically be Ashtanga Yoga on every corner of London. I assumed wrong. Finding good yoga has been, shall we say, a [...]

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So Dan is getting Quinton ready for bed last night and says to him, “Quinton, you are doing such a good job being a big boy and going potty, we don’t even need diapers for bed anymore.” I am startled. Surely this is something in the realm of my decision making – you [...]

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Garden Romp
Originally uploaded by dsmithsteeves

Yesterday we had a really nice day at home. It included getting some much needed yard work done in the garden, which ended with the boys in full-blown wrestle mania. This is one of those times when boys definitely need to be boys. Dan took a bunch of [...]

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Elliot sees first 3-D Imax movie
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Saturday we spent with the Watsons – friends from the north near Manchester. Their son, Max, was celebrating his 9th birthday and wanted to go to the Science Museum. We met them there and had a very enjoyable day. It was so nice to [...]

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As we walked home from school today, I was considering all the phrases that I have come to love since arriving. Some of them I have to adopt, despite being American. My thoughts were interrupted by Quinton in the stroller as we arrived to our swishy-swashy grass at the church tower. “Mommy, [...]

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