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• Thrilled To Be Four 11 years ago If it's Birthday Week at our house, I can anticipate a full schedule. There are cupcakes at school, dinners out, and celebrations at home.  Add in eleven (yes ELEVEN) days of a stomach virus on top of all of that, and it becomes a week we'd all rather forget. It all started off well enough:  B3...
• Our Australian Adventure 12 years ago Right now, I'm watching my kids run (and I do mean run) around an empty airport in Hervey Bay, Australia.  It's not a big airport, and there are no flights for the next 2 hours.  There hasn't been a departure in over an hour, so we've had the place to ourselves since then.  It's surprising how...
• Move Over, Martha Stewart! 12 years ago Today, AK was all smiles when she bounced off of the bus.  That's the way she nearly always is in the afternoons, so today was no different.  She immediately started telling me about a recipe she had that we just must try.  I thought I was paying attention, but suddenly I realized that I must...
• Two More Temples (Siem Reap #4) 12 years ago On our third day in Siem Reap, we finished our Temple Tour.  We could have spent a week or more going from temple to temple to temple, but that's not our idea of a great time.  We chose a few highlights and concentrated on those.  First, we saw Angkor Thom. Angkor Thom means "Great City", and it...
• Four Wheelin' (Siem Reap #3) 12 years ago After we had learned so much about silk worms, we took a lunch break and returned to our hotel to rest up for our afternoon activity:  a sunset tour of the outskirts of town on 4 wheelers.  While we rested, it began to storm.  The rain was impressive.  The rainy season in Siem Reap was supposed...

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