Naebody in Particular

You won't find them on a shortbread tin, but our ancestors live on so long as we keep telling their stories. Scots, Yanks, Canucks and the Auld Enemy. Newest posts are the ancestors, but scroll for the living.

travel: gram’s birthday, williamsburg, virginia

November 14, 2010

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travel: gram’s birthday, williamsburg, virginia
out: merrywood playground

November 13, 2010

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out: merrywood playground, williamsburg, virginia
el gato

November 12, 2010
turning the other cheek

November 11, 2010

sparklet had her first laser treatment tonight, the first of a series of four or five that should dislodge the port wine stain on her cheek.

and while we’re most excited for people to stop asking how she got that “boo-boo” on her face, the bruising from this treatment means we’ll have a solid week of people reporting us to child protective services instead.
found: foliage

November 11, 2010
hike: limberlost trail, shenadoah national park, virginia

November 11, 2010

photo of the week // thirteen months

trail information:
Trailhead: 38.579997,-78.381389 (Google Maps); Length: 1.3 total miles; Elevation Gain: 100 feet; Trail Type: Loop; Skill Level: Easy.

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hike: limberlost, shenandoah national park, virginia
found: jack-o-lanterns

November 7, 2010
daylight savings

November 7, 2010

it looks like everything is back to normal in the sparkler household — well, healthy, if not normal.

this weekend we opted out of yet another social event — our fourth missed halloween party / birthday party / playdate in 10 days — out of an over-abundance of caution that viruses (viri?) aren’t a heck of a lot of fun and probably shouldn’t be shared with friends and neighbors.

so, we did what we could to keep sparklet’s mind busy while her body adapts to the time change — even if it meant carving month old pumpkins a week after the passage of Halloween rendered them seasonally inappropriate.

p.s. i absolutely love the picture, above — there is something special in the annual slide towards winter, and in eeking out every last drop of sunlight with your friends before running inside for dinner.
pumpkin carving

November 7, 2010

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firsts: pumpkin carving
spreading like a virus

November 5, 2010

yesterday was a day of worshiping the porcelain bowl goddess for the sparkler family.

it started with the nanny shortly before noon, followed by myself around 12:30pm, emily the cat was next at 2pm, sparklet later around 9pm, and finally the lady sparkler at 10:30pm.

and, it turns out that our nanny share family had a similar vision — they just got a two day jump on us.

it’s looking like it’s just a 24-hour bug — the first three hours you think you’re going to die, the next three hours you wish you would, closely followed by 18 hours on your back.

sparklet’s actually been a trooper through it all — not only last night during all the madness, but today with no nanny and two utterly debilitated parents.

she even took an hour and a half nap on the couch with me early this morning once it was pretty obvious that i wasn’t going to be able to do much else.

that’s my girl.

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spreading like a virus