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Archive for September, 2007

Another time far, far away

Posted: Saturday, September 15th, 2007 @ 8:40 am in Family Stuff | 3 Comments »

One morning I decided that we needed to explore the trails around our campground. It was easy to get SK to join me but MK took a bit of convincing. He wanted to stay and enjoy the water by our campsite:

Can you blame him? But we left the campsite and walked the […]

Tie Dyeing T’s

Posted: Friday, September 14th, 2007 @ 9:40 pm in Family Stuff | 2 Comments »

In early August we had a fun family vacation to a state park in upstate New York. One activity we look forward to is tie dyeing t-shirts. This year we came prepared with lots of old t-shirts. MK first lays out the t-shirt, and decides whether to make a sunburst pattern, […]

Read the Directions

Posted: Thursday, September 13th, 2007 @ 11:36 am in Family Stuff | 1 Comment »

For my birthday my family gave me an IPod. It was what I wanted and quickly I started loading all our music onto my pc and transferring it over to my IPod.
That was not as easy as it sounds, but I got through it. Science Kid tried with all his might to do […]

Made it through the day

Posted: Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 @ 11:46 pm in Family Stuff | 3 Comments »

We made it through today. I’ll get the negative out of the way first; we had a reception for an hour prior to the service. A very bitter, angry relative arrived and when I saw they were not greeted or greeting anyone I walked over to them. Their backs were to me […]

Rest in Peace

Posted: Friday, September 7th, 2007 @ 11:59 pm in Family Stuff | 11 Comments »

At 8:30 this evening Dad peaceable passed away. Born in Philadelphia, married to his childhood sweetheart, an army corp medic in WWII, a chemical engineer graduate from Drexel University, a father to 5, grandfather to 9, great-grandfather to 3. Learned he had Stage 4 colon cancer August, 2005 and fought […]

It is near

Posted: Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 @ 11:24 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

Accidentally I deleted all my internet software off my pc on Monday. What a way to start off the month! DH came to my rescue and while I was up with my Dad today he recovered lots of the stuff.. Dad slept all but maybe 30 min of the […]