I added a bunch of new pictures today, in two different photo albums.  There are new Mikaela pictures in the January 2005 photo album.  I also added pictures that I took yesterday during our inspection of the new house in a photo album named (appropriately) New House.  The furniture all goes, but most of the [...]

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Got word this morning that our offer on the house off of 129th and Switzer has been accepted.  We’ve got an inspection scheduled for Friday afternoon.  Assuming that goes well, we’ll be closing on February 23 and then moving the first weekend in March (we’ll use the week in-between to clean and perhaps do some [...]

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We’ve known that Mikaela had weird tastes for a toddler for a long time – I mean, how many toddlers like to eat salad, and ask for broccoli instead of hamburger pizza.  But tonight takes the cake (or the ice cream, as you soon shall see).
We had dinner with Grandma Ted and Zaydie Larry, and [...]

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We spent several hours with our buyers’ agent on Sunday looking at seven houses that we’d identified from web listings as likely candidates.  We may have found "the one."  It was the fifth one we looked at, and we almost hadn’t included it in this list of houses to look at, because there were no [...]

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Okay, I’m trying REALLY hard to update more frequently.  Just a couple of quick things.  First, we heard from the JCC, and the CDC (Child Development Center) will have a spot for Mikaela in the Fall.  It’ll be good for Mikaela to have more kids her age around for social interaction, and more room to [...]

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When we were out house-hunting last weekend, we decided to check into the possibility of building a new home, instead of buying an existing home.  Unfortuntately, new building in Overland Park is VERY expensive these days.  The closest we could find in our price range was The Reserve at the Heritage, which was way out [...]

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Wow.  Has it really been that long since I’ve posted?  I guess we’ve been a bit distracted.  After much consideration, Miriam and I decided it was time to start house hunting in the suburbs.  We said when we first bought this house that we’d probably be in it for about five years, and we’ve been [...]

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