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Now we are…TWELVE?
Really? How did that happen? How did my tiny little baby turn, seemingly overnight, into a lovely young woman? For some reason, this birthday seems more real than those in our past, like Maya is passing some cusp between childhood and adulthood. I do realize that she’s more than 1/2 way there, but it’s not really that. I guess this whole year has felt this way…what with middle school and so on. I see some of the girls, looking like women already. I see kids with phones and makeup, boyfriends and giggles, and all of the other trappings of teenager hood, and all I can think is, really? Already? And…
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Happy Valentime’s* Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone, but especially most of all to my beloved Py. Can you believe this is our 20th V-Day together? I remember the first one…roses, chocolate covered strawberries, and champagne. It was a good day, and every one since that has been better than the last, because it means it’s longer that we’ve been together. I love you so very much. *Inside joke. Kinda like, ‘Can you borrow me a pencil?”
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Kindness
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.” Lao-Tsu Maya recently graduated from a 15-week class that she’s been taking at ARF, the Animal Rescue Foundation, which is a local organization that takes the most adoptable animals in the county shelters, and brings them to a no-kill environment, and works to socialize them and treat them, so that they will be adoptable. They work to find the animals good homes. They spend a lot of time with the animals, getting to know them, socializing them, giving them exercise, so that the crushing reality of a county shelter doesn’t take an adoptable animal and…
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Team in Training
Guess who’s doing a 100-mile bike ride on June 1st, to raise much needed funds to research a cure for blood cancers? That’s right, my own beloved Ted, aka Py Korry. If you can spare a buck or 5, and are interested in sponsoring him in his endeavors, hop on over to his Team in Training page, where you can click to donate. And if you think he’s all take take take, not giving back to you, you’re wrong. Check out the mix of songs he’s put together for your listening pleasure this week, posted at Popdose. Thanks, kids!
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Merry Sickmas!
(disgusting but sadly appropriate graphic found here) We’re home from Portland, and I must say, it was a mixed bag of a vacation. We arrived on Saturday evening, and my poor dad was feeling fine, but then not so fine, and by the end of the evening he had all of the oh-so-fun symptoms of either stomach flu or food poisoning. Yay. We all hoped for food poisoning (so it would go away quickly, and so no one else would get sick), and washed our hands a lot. Too bad, it was stomach flu, and the good news kept coming in. My sister, brother-in-law, and niece had a variation (though…
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Wordless Wednesday
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I’m Gonna Love You…
When I was a newlywed, my last year in graduate school, I remember talking to one of my classmates about the subject of marriage. I’m not sure how long he had been dating his girlfriend at the time, but he was pretty amazed at the idea of someone our age being married already. {I was 28 at the time, which wasn’t THAT young, but when I first moved to San Francisco at 21, I had a classmate who was married, and I remember thinking the same thing.} This classmate asked me, how do you know when it’s time to get married? My honest, true answer was that, for me, it…
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Purnima
Photo found here. When Ted and I were married, almost 14 years ago, we had a wonderful Hindu ceremony. When we were setting our date, our pundit, who also happens to be Ted’s 2nd cousin, I think, looked on a calendar to make sure that we were going to be married on an ‘auspicious day’. As our wedding fell on a full moon, it was deemed to be an auspicious day, and thus our marriage was blessed with good fortune. Today my bloggy friend Tracy marries her eSuitor, and as today is the full moon, I trust their marriage will be blessed. Hope your day is magical Tracy, and that…
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Wedding Day!
Today is the day when our dear friends, Cherry and Eric, are getting married. (No, this isn’t their cake…I found this picture here.) So far, it looks like she couldn’t have asked for better weather…it can be kind of hot here in late June, or, conversely, we can get some of that SF fog, and it can be downright chilly. Looks like mostly sunny skies, and smiles all around. I hope that everything comes out wonderfully today….they have been planning this day for months now, and I want it all to be just right for them. But even if the cake doesn’t look how it’s supposed to look, or if…
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Thirteen Things I Love About Py
1. He’s AWESOME to travel with. He loves traveling, and it doesn’t stress him out. He’s fine going budget if we need to, but if we can afford it, he likes to surprise me and upgrade us to the best we can get. All without putting anything on credit, of course, because that’s not his thing, either. 2. He’s an amazing father. I was hoping to get one of those for my kid(s) way back when I was dating, and boy, I struck the jackpot with Py. 3. He’s a great cook. We both like cooking, so it’s nice to have the variety, and neither of us get tired of…
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Wordless Wednesday
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J & Curtis Sitting in a Tree…
Saturday, we hopped on BART and went to San Francisco to see Curtis Stone. (To see the coolio video Ted put together for me, click here) He was signing cookbooks at Williams Sonoma on Union Square, and Ted and Maya were willing to indulge me in seeing my boyfriend in real life. 🙂 He’s mighty tall, and he forgot to shave, and from what we could see, he seems like a very genuine and nice person. YAY! So then, of course, I told Maya that was her future step-father. She was happy about the money and fame, but not too thrilled about me and Ted not being married anymore…but then…
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A Birthday Meme for my Birthday Girl!
Last year, I wrote a post about Maya for her 10th birthday. Ted no longer has the mac account, so you can’t go view the slideshow…but the rest of it remains as true today as it was then. (And it turns out, he’s made a new slideshow…be patient, it takes a minute to load) I can’t believe it’s a year already since I wrote that post, and 11 years since she was born. That was an amazing time for us, and we feel blessed to this day. Maya is the child every parent wishes for when they’re wishing for kids, except she’s even better than that. She’s smart and funny…
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That Sounds About Right…
You Are A Realistic Romantic It’s easy for you to get swept away by romance… But you’ve done a pretty good job keeping perspective. You’re still taken in by love poems and sunsets You just don’t fall for every dreamy pick up line! Are You Romantic or Realistic?
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Happy Valentine’s Day
To all…but mostly of course, to my dear beloved Py. Love this groovy trip we’re on together, sweetheart.