The kids enjoyed the evening, playing on the deck.

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Mikaela has been making her own lunches since school started last week. Until tonight, she’s made herself the same thing each night – crunchy peanut butter. No jelly. Tonight, for the first time, she asked for jelly. Fine. No big deal. Then, I noticed what she was doing with the jelly, and had to grab [...]

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I’ve mentioned before how much Jonathan likes to go to Deanna Rose Farmstead to feed and pet the goats. Tonight marked a new stage of Jonathan’s relationship with the Deanna Rose goats – now, he’s teaching them manners! He would take a pellet of goat food and let a goat eat the piece of food. [...]

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Mikaela started kindergarten at Cottonwood Point Elementary School on Monday. So far, she LOVES school. She was nervous in the days leading up to school starting. She worried about not knowing anyone’s name and, oddly, about there not being a bathroom. In fact, in amongst all of the things she excitedly told me about her [...]

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Corey & Mo’s comedy duo, The Union, got a terrific review for their performance last week at the Milwaukee Sketch and Improv Festival. The Shepherd Express reviewer Russ Bickerstaff said:

George Burns and Gracie Allen. Harry and Bess Houdini. Siegfried and Roy. Bonny and Clyde. Chicago sketch comedy pair The Union is the next in a [...]

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Jonathan has developed quite an affinity for blues music already – especially harmonica music. We listen to Blues Traveler and Guy Forsyth all the time when we’re in the car. Recently, he’s discovered Mikaela’s harmonica

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On the way home from my most recent work trip to St. Louis, I was re-listening to the podcast of a This American Life episode, in which Michael Savage talks about discussing marrying his partner with his and his partner’s adopted son. Listening to that podcast reminded me of a conversation I had with Mikaela [...]

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