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Upon picking Elliot up from school today (only 5-6 year olds on Wednesday), Martin, one of Elliot’s teachers, was cheerily telling me about his & Elliot’s conversation about Ozzy Osbourne and Van Halen, including the distinction between which songs David Lee Roth and Sammy Haggar each sang. Apparently this was followed by some very [...]

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I picked the boys up from school and we were walking happily home after a little picnic and buying some flowers at the market.
Elliot: Mom, what does God look like?
Me: I’m not sure, Elliot. Maybe he will look differently to each of us.
Elliot: I think God looks like Papoo.
Quinton: Excuse [...]

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I did a fabulous thing this morning. I dropped my children off at school. And I get to do it again tomorrow. This moment finally arrived after a scattered nine weeks of no school, due to our “visit” back to Minnesota and term break here. Elliot arrived at my bedside at [...]

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Elliot Learns to Knit
Originally uploaded by dsmithsteeves
“Under the fence,
Catch the sheep,
Back we come,
Off we leap.”
This is the little verse used to help children remember what to do with the yarn when they learn to knit. I must have said it one hundred times today. Elliot learned to finger knit in school, and I [...]

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Lypiatt House, our hotel in Cheltenham
Originally uploaded by dsmithsteeves

This photo is the lovely place called Lypiatt House where Dan & I spent Friday and Saturday night. It is located in Cheltenham, a small city on the outskirts of the Cotswolds, that rolling farmland dotted with small villages of picturesque England that you see in [...]

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. . . home again, home again jiggety-jig.” I really do love a good nursery rhyme. Virgin Atlantic airlines brought Wayne & Arlene here last Thursday, and along with them some much anticipated Nana & Grandpa love, joy for Dan & I, walks to parks, Twister madness, trips to markets and all around [...]

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