“Orphaned”

Today Michelle moves to town to take care of friends’ children until October 18th. Aly and I will be pretty much on our own for the week. It will be very odd not having Michelle, who is pretty much the center of our family, home with us. To kick it off right, Aly will go to town with her to attend a class, so I’ll be on my own till evening. This is fairly normal, but Aly coming home without her mother isn’t. Continue reading →

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Time to Decorate for Halloween

We’ve been planning to do this for three days now, but life has been getting in the way. Today, a down day after the excitement of yesterday (Aly’s SAT, massive stock ups during the first-weekend-after-Permanent Fund Dividends-are-issued local sales, swimming at the pool) we will likely, finally, get around to decorating for Halloween. Continue reading →

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