From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Wordless Wednesday

by Kristen McLane on September 30, 2008

Adam captured this beautiful shot of a hummingbird in our backyard. We have at least two that stop by regularly.

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Review: Sesame Street Building Set by Kid K’nex

by Kristen McLane on September 30, 2008

My kids love Kid K’nex and so do I. We already own several building sets including Dino Pals, Undersea Pals and Zoomin’ Buddies. Many toys come and go in popularity but after two years these ones still hold a prominent position on our toy shelf.
Kid K’nex recently teamed up with Sesame Street Workshop [...]

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Children’s Book Giveaway: Read All About It!

by Kristen McLane on September 29, 2008

Tyrone rules the school!
He’s king of the monkey bars, a math machine, and a science whiz.
The only thing he doesn’t like about school is reading. Books are so boring! But when strange visitors start dropping by the classroom for story hour, Tyrone discovers there’s more to books than just words on pages.
Tyrone is a popular [...]

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Weekend Update: Las Vegas Edition

by Kristen McLane on September 29, 2008

We are back from our weekend escape to Las Vegas. The purpose of our trip was to visit Adam’s mom. Now that we are only a five hours drive from Vegas our intention is to visit more often.
Grammy (and her husband Rick) have a thing for Yorkshire Terriers. Two of their Yorkies [...]

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Sporting Spooky Fall Tees

by Kristen McLane on September 27, 2008

This past week I decided that the kids and I needed a fun fall project. Fall has always ranked the highest as my favorite season. For the past five years I was spoiled by living in the fertile apple orchard kingdom otherwise known as Romeo. Right about now I could really go a [...]

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Museum Day 2008

by Kristen McLane on September 26, 2008

Not sure what to do this weekend? This Saturday, September 27th, is Museum Day 2008 at participating Smithsonian museums. Locate a museum and download an admission card (good for two free admissions) to get in on this great offer.
I had grand plans to take the kids to the San Diego Air and Space [...]

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Weekend Update, Part Two

by Kristen McLane on September 24, 2008

Is Wednesday too late to post a weekend update? I hope not.
After the rodent fiasco on Saturday morning we were all wide awake. I had picked up a San Diego Family magazine earlier in the week hoping that I might be able to find something fun to do with the kids. (It’s [...]

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Weekend Update, Part One (Rodent Edition)

by Kristen McLane on September 22, 2008

I woke up early on Saturday morning needing to use the bathroom. As I staggered back to my bedroom (it was barely 6 a.m.) I noticed an unmistakable silhouette on the floor. Even without my glasses on I knew what it was. Uggh, we’d left the doggie door open over night and [...]

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The Twitter Song

by Kristen McLane on September 19, 2008

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Lost Without You

by Kristen McLane on September 19, 2008

Just before moving to San Diego my brilliant husband decided that we needed a GPS for the car. At the time I didn’t understand why he would choose to spend his hard earned cash (a gift from George Bush actually) on a GPS of all things. I half-heartily agreed even though I didn’t [...]

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