Rice Orchards Thanksgiving

We had a lovely, relaxing vacation with the Withrows and the Rice families at Mindy’s girlhood home, Rice Orchards, in Northwood Ohio. Here is a fun little breakdown of our trip, by the numbers, with apologies for a few inside jokes:
days: 3 1/2
nights: 4 (if you count arriving at 3 am [...]

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colors/cozy/cat/computer/cooking/cuppas

Life continues to be unusually busy here in Vendsel-land. This week we are planning to journey to the great state of Ohio for some highly anticipated R&R with the Withrows. I am sure that pumpkin pie, turkey, stuffing, coffee, bookstores, and conversation will abound in a great abundance commensurate with the harvest holiday.
Philadelphia [...]

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God’s gift of life

Zoe Catherine Wong
daughter of Brian and Cathy Wong and sister of Emelie Wong
born March 30, 2007
7 pounds, 2 ouncesWelcome to the world, baby girl.

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Depression Epidemic Affects Even the Super-Happy

Yesterday I felt as though I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I was tired, irritable, grumpy, and quite unproductive. I couldn’t for the life of me understand why I should be depresed, and even said to Mike, “what is wrong with me?”
To my great surprise, I discovered I was [...]

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History Lives

Seasonal Soundings continues to inspire me with her love of beauty and books. Recently she featured an excellent review of the History Lives books series, by our friends, Mindy and Brandon Withrow. (You might have noticed them in my sidebar here.) Do take a look and be inspired to pick up these books which [...]

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A Most "Capital" Visit!

Life continues at a break-neck pace, but this time last weekend we slowed way down for a delightful tour of D.C. with Brandon and Mindy. Brandon has done a perfect write-up of our visit, to which I can add very little except to say how nice it was to take a mini vacation with [...]

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Princeton

Yesterday we, along with the Withrows, experienced the generousity of Sam and Sue Logan on a little jaunt to Princeton. All six of us cozied up in the Logan’s big sedan and journeyed towards Jersey. Dr. Logan, a Princeton alumn, had told us that there were two things we must see and do: [...]

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Kentucky Weekend Pictures

I snagged these from our friend Otter’s cool flikr page: a few pictures to share from last weekend.
New Parents:

My new friend Ruth holding Ella Ruth:

Singing:

A mean game of Uno:

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Weekend Ramblings: Of Hard Drive Failures and Happiness Despite

On Wednesday night my computer started behaving sluggishly, making odd ticking noises and freezing up. I tried various troubleshooting suggestions from the Apple website which seemed to help temporarily and quickly backed up my files. By Thursday afternoon, my little white laptop, so integral to my daily life, would not boot up. So most of [...]

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Labor Day

Today was a great day. We woke up mid morning and had brunch with Lee and Michelle (the picture on the “Guests” post is actually from this afternoon). Then, after saying goodbye to Lee (probably won’t see him for a while - his reason for coming up to these parts is moving back to Dallas [...]

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