christina
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December 11
I joined Christina on her field trip to St. Augustine today and it was a lot of fun! I learned a lot, including that I know next to nothing about the city of St. Augustine. I came home and passed out with a fever. Guess I caught whatever’s been going around. Darn.
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December 10
Today’s cheer performance wasn’t as good as yesterday’s, and the competition was just too tight. The girls came in third place out of three teams. No one’s favorite day, but Robin came out smiling and that is how I know how much she loves cheer.
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December 8
Made it to Orlando for Robin’s first cheer competition of the season. Christina’s kids menu had a place to draw a picture. The instructions said that the fisherman had reeled in a whopper but couldn’t identify what it was. Christina was to draw the catch. Well, she drew a cheeseburger. Because, you know, whopper.
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November 30
We have all the number candles except 3 and 5, and our 4 has been used so much, it no longer has any wick left, so we had to improvise. We put a zero in there for good luck. Hopefully Billy had a good birthday.
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November 26
We spent two hours at Java Game Haus playing Exploding Kittens, Christina’s favorite game. Apparently it wore her out.
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November 24
Thanksgiving is over, and Christina is full-on into Christmas mode. The countdown is on!
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November 15
Christina and I get 45 minutes between her dance classes to eat dinner together. It’s nice to have this alone time with her, even if we do end up spending some of it glued to our screens.
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November 11
There was some kind of soccer tournament going on near the hotel. There were at least 75 kids running around the lobby and the pool after dinner while their 125 parents drank beer and wine and largely ignored them. The noise! The chaos! It wasn’t the peaceful escape I imagined, but we did get this…
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October 29
I wrote and delivered this morning’s service at church and it turned out absolutely beautiful. I got a lot of really touching compliments on it. It was something I really needed to do and something that gave me a lot of comfort at a time when I really haven’t had much. I’m so glad that…
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October 15
Today has to have been the most beautiful day of 2023 so far. I’m so glad I managed to wrench the kids out of the house for an hour. I told them I was going and I was taking all the phones and iPads with me. Given that choice, they came with me. I don’t…
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October 13
Christina was insanely amazed that these two magnets held together THROUGH HER FINGER. Ka-pow.
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October 8
I’ve hiked the trails at Losco Park about a thousand times, but today somehow I got turned around and ended up hiking the loop twice, turning a 1.5-mile hike into a 4+ mile hike. It wouldn’t have been that big a deal, except Christina and the dogs were with me and the dogs were exhausted…
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September 16
Somehow I missed uploading this one. Oops. Took the kids to St. Augustine and poked around the shops on St. George St. It was more fun than staying home, anyway.
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September 2
Trying to make more of an effort to do fun things. The pool was nearly empty and it was definitely cooler today than it was last week, but we had fun anyway. There was only minimal fighting over goggles.
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August 27
I have this exact same picture of Christina from when she was 2. Some things never change.
Year in Photos 