Come, thou long-expected newsy-update-thing

[Note: I wrote this on several occasions over the course of the past month. I've tried to fix all the verb tenses and date references to make sense. Really, I've tried.
Also, please know that the timing of finally publishing this today is entirely coincidental. The following has nothing to do with [...]

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Quote of the Day, 2009 Jan 20

The President of the United States: “…that I will execute… … …the office of President of the United States faithfully…”
[Whew. Now that we know what his first mistake will be, everyone should maybe try to relax a little.
It should also be noted that no dove descended from the sky [...]

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Quotes of the weekend, 2009 Jan 16-18

Friday
Dar (several times throughout the 4-and-a-half-hour drive):  “How many more minutes?!”
Saturday
Dar (several times throughout the evening):  “Would you like more johnnycakes?  Would you like more apple butter?”
[The homemade johnnycakes came from Williamsburg; the apple butter came from a jar.]
Sunday
Dar (once and for all…for now):  “This was the best vacation EVER.  We went DOGSLEDDING!”
[We also went [...]

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Quote of the Day, 2009 Jan 15

Dar (after listing several things she’s looking forward to this weekend, when we’ll be staying in a cabin):  “One thing I’m mad about.  There’s a TV!  Because when Mary and Laura were growing up, way back, they didn’t have a TV!”

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No quotes for a couple of days

I had a realization today about why I’m having trouble keeping up on these. The point, after all, was partially to record some of the hilarious/cute/observant/innocent things our children say every day, in a Bill Cosby kind of way, only much more personal. (The point was also partially to start my creative juices [...]

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Quotes of the Day, 2009 Jan 10-11

(Sorry–there’s a lot of parentheses in this one already, but I feel I must add this note.  I thought I had finished up this post on Sunday before we went over to some friends’ house for dinner, but I had not.  I didn’t even look at it yesterday, and now it’s getting quite stale.  On [...]

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Note of the day, 2009 Jan 09

Dar tried to sneak a note into my briefcase on Friday morning.  It was in a handmade envelope fashioned of scrap paper, staples, and glue or something, addressed to
Luke — Papa
16  20
And here is what the note said:
Dear Dad
I really want to watch Star Wars. Can w secretly watch very sooon I love you
Dar.
She’s been [...]

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Quotes of the Day, 2009 Jan 08

I know there are millions out there waiting with bated breath for each QOTD installment, so I’m surprised that exactly none of you flooded my emails with demands to know why, in the name of all that is decent in the world, didn’t I post anything for yesterday?!
Since nobody asked, I won’t answer.  But today [...]

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Quote of the Day, 2009 Jan 06

Emily (for the second night in a row, reading from The Omnivore’s Dilemma, quoting a Christian uber-organic indie farmer in Virginia): “The way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview.”
[As it turns out, the farmer and Pollan are both fans of Wendell Berry. I have a Wendell Berry quote on [...]

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Quote of the Day, 2009 Jan 05

Emily (reading from Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma): “For most American children today, [McDonald's] is no longer such a treat: One in three of them eat fast food every single day.”
[My tummy hurts just thinking about that. In fact, that's why this is a day late...yeah, that's the ticket...]

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