Songs of the Day, 2009 Mar 01-02

Sunday
In honor of a quirky holiday that honors an unusual patriot (and expatriate, for that matter), here are the lyrics to my personal favorite song in the whole Sufjan Stevens oeuvre, which has nothing to do with Poland or the U.S. Revolutionary War:
Casimir Pulaski Day
Golden rod and the 4-H stone
The things I brought you
When I [...]

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Another Star Wars dilemma

I’m going to try to make this quick.  An ordered list will have to do.

After we finally sat down to watch Episode IV, Dar wanted to watch the next movie right away.
I suspect that she will be the only kid at the party this weekend who has NOT seen Episode V.
She has made it this [...]

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Quote of the Day, 2009 Feb 12

Dar:  “I wish The Force was real!”

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Two days from now, in a galaxy not far away…

About a month ago, I asked you for your opinions on whether Dar was ready for Star Wars. I never got around to posting any kind of a decision, but it became clear that one of the only reasons I was hesitating was that I felt kind of weird about excluding Margo.  And that’s not [...]

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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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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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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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Saturday morning at breakfast

Time really does fly when you’re six, and the big events just pile up right on top of each other.  It was only last Wednesday that this hapened.  And on Saturday, a few minutes into our cereal and toast, I noticed this:
Dar had not noticed.  The pearly white itself was lost and presumed digested.  After [...]

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And that’s the tooth!

This afternoon when I got to the door, Dar was writing very intently/intensely on a piece of note-sized paper.  This is anything but unusual, but it became clear as I came in the house, to the usual chorus of barkings and screamings and such, that Dar was concentrating on something that she wanted to finish [...]

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First day of first grade

This has to be a new personal record for uploading photos of my children to the Internets.  Here’s a couple of shots from this morning, before we all walked Dar to school.
(And I didn’t plan it this way, but yes, they’re in front of the bay window again.)

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