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10.5 years in

  • Lily has been just ornery--yelling, scratching, or doing whatever is necessary to get anyone with the temerity to cross her.  She also sounds like a long-term smoker when she talks.
  • Elsie is now our sickest child with eyes that make you want to cry when you look at them,
  • Timmy's been reading and sounding out everything in sight,
  • Abby made a quarto-sized book for Elsie complete with illustrations, story, and binding,
  • Kate finally recovered enough to get back to attending school and playing soccer.
  • Gina worked things out with her favorite midwives in Albuquerque to have the baby with them, and
  • I made a combination of celery, carrots, chicken, garlic, onions, fish sauce, egg noodles, and a light marinara sauce that I sold to the kids under the name of "Tuscan spaghetti."  Amazingly, people loved it.